extjs or some other grid?
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 01:08
Hi all
Is there a plan to include some grid like extJs? I ask because some time ago I played with it for a while and it was very powerful and very very customizable.
I was looking to implement it my self but I think I'm not enough skilled to do that, maybe in a distant future, with your help, I can try.

Since QCubed has jQuery integrated, I think it would be better to find a jQuery plugin for this. A grid is planned to be in the official jQuery UI package (no dates yet). See http://wiki.jqueryui.com/GridTable . Of course we don't have to wait for the official one, and can just pick one of the existing ones and wrap it (if it follows the standard jQuery documentation, we can even auto-generate the wrapper :-)). This one looks pretty amazing: http://www.trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html (unfortunately it has it's own wiki based documentation, so we would have to wrap it manually).
It would also be nice if it was possible to make our standard QDataGrid use that grid control.
-Vartan
P.S. BTW, last time I checked ExtJS had a very unfriendly license. If you're interested in a comparable rich UI toolkit, consider SmartClient.
There has been an attempt to fuse qcodo (qcubed's older brother) with extjs controls.
The result of this can be found here:
QExtGrid
QTreePanel
These controls should be usable with some small changes.
Since i'm also using Qcodo with Ext it would be great if you post any of your findings with using this control.
@Vakopian, I understand, I followed the link you sent me and it looks GREAT, I'll wait for it and of course will try to help in any way I can! The second grid you sent me is absolutely great to, I used it for a while some time ago and loved it, but if it is more work maybe you are right and is better to wait for the first one.
@MischaK, I'm lerning to use this framework and it has been difficult for me to implement things, I manage to change some classes to make qcoded use autocomplete instead of QListBox, and QDateRangePicker instead of QDateTimePicker, but I tried to follow the code of some plugins that uses jquery and js and are to much for me right now, specially because the code I so was extremely good, UNLIKE mine hehe. If you want to help me maybe we can try to do it together?
Sorry for me English pleaseeeee!!
I just looked at jqgrid, it's evolving and looks great, they've been working to integrate better with php and made some helpers, I downloaded it and will play with it, the helpers seems to work directly with pdo but I'll see!
That's while this or other grid is implemented as a plugin in qcubed, which will be, I think, a very appreciated one :)
extjs is free only for open source projects - if you want to use it in a commercial/closed source project, you need to acquire a commercial license.
please correct me if I'm wrong, but if this is the case it's another reason to go with jquery
I think you are absolutely right, in fact, when I asked about extjs, was thinking in jqGrid, didn't found the demo page I was sure they had, hehe it was in fact the demo page of jqGrid, excellent page!
So yes, like you said, jqGrid or the one that vakopian suggested are excellent candidates
Juan