[Kss-devel] Using an ExtJS component

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi guys,

I'm interested in experimenting with this:

  http://extjs.com/playpen/ext-2.0-dev5/examples/organizer/organizer.html

Imagine the thing on the right are contents of a folder, and the tree on 
the left is the Plone content hierarchy. With simple drag-and-drop, you 
can re-organise your content hierarchy pretty effectively.

I could probably just sidestep KSS to use this, bringing in the ExtJS 
dependencies in a particular page template and set up the control, but 
I'd like to look at whether I can gain more by using KSS more directly.

The ExtJS approach is quite simple. You typically set up some data 
structures/options that explain e.g. how to fetch data (using JSON, 
typically), what to do on a drop event, what headers and columns you 
want and so on. This all goes into an object which ypu then "apply" to a 
node (e.g. an empty div) and ExtJS renders the whole widget there.

Here is the code for the example:

  http://extjs.com/playpen/ext-2.0-dev5/examples/organizer/organizer.js

Let's forget about i18n and graceful degradation for now on. I'd be 
interested to hear how you feel this may be best woven into a Plone (3) 
site with KSS taking care of other JS.

Martin

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