Time for action – creating a widget

We are going to develop a custom widget to show a marquee. Follow these steps to create your first widget:

  1. Create a new Vaadin project with the name myfistwidget using your IDE.
  2. Create a new class for the client side widget myfirstwidget.client.MarqueeLabelWidget:
    package myfirstwidget.client; import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style.Position; import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style.Unit; import com.google.gwt.user.client.Element; import com.google.gwt.user.client.Timer; import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Label; public class MarqueeLabelWidget extends Label { // ... public MarqueeLabelWidget() { final Element element = getElement(); element.getStyle().setPosition(Position.RELATIVE); Timer timer = new Timer() { private ...

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