The dojo toolkit ebook

Get BOOK. The Dojo Files. In this sequel to Tales of the Dojo, Tony Annesi inverts the intent: instead of LifeLessons from the Martial Arts, he draws Martial Arts Lessons from life, from unexpected true life sources, many his own experiences. The dojo files yield never before published stories that take you out of the. XPages Portable Command Guide. Dojo offers Web developers and designers a powerful JavaScript toolkit for rapidly developing robust Ajax applications.

In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of the Function object—and how to bind contexts to functions using lang. From there, you'll learn how to bind specific arguments to a function using lang. In this tutorial you learn what JSONP is and how you can use it to retrieve data from cross-domain sources.

Dojo Deferreds and Promises. Deferreds are a wonderful and powerful thing, but they're really an implementation of something greater - a promise. In this tutorial, we'll cover what that means, as well as some additional pieces of Dojo's API to work with both promises and regular values in a uniform way.

Widgets Beyond Dojo. One of the things that differentiates Dojo from many other JavaScript libraries is its scope. While you can simply use the functionality of Dojo base, DOM, Ajax, effects and other common functionality, the toolkit provides much, much more.

In this tutorial, we'll go on a quick tour of the Dojo Toolkit, to introduce some of the other components that are shipped with each release. Presenting statistical data in a readable, eye-catching manner is important, but it can also be difficult. This tutorial will show you how to create basic charts with varying data, plots, axes, and themes. Advanced Charting. Dijit's collection of form widgets provides a convenient and flexible range of options for creating rich forms.

In this tutorial we will look at the options available for checkbox-style interaction. User interaction is extremely important in building responsive, interactive web applications. Web browsers provide basic methods for user interaction in the form of alerts and dialogs, but this functionality is neither elegant nor flexible.

In this tutorial, you'll learn about each of these widgets, sample usages of each, and the ins and outs of creating them. Layout with Dijit. Creating dynamic and interactive layouts is a challenge common to any graphical user interface. In this tutorial, we'll explain how Dijit addresses common layout needs and see how easy it can be to create even complex layouts with just a few flexible widgets. Dijit Editor.

While there are elements within Dojo to allow for simple form validation, occasionally you may want a more powerful solution. Vector graphics can have many advantages, including flawless scaling with maximum portability. The problem with vector graphic creation is that it can be difficult—but not so with Dojo's GFX library.

GFX provides a simple and flexible API along with other utilities for creating, animating, and managing amazing vector graphics. A Loading Overlay. In this tutorial, we'll create an overlay that puts us in control of the user experience while the loading of dependencies and rendering of the UI takes place in the background. Dijit Menus.

Dijit is a powerful framework for allowing us to create very clean, professional-looking interfaces. Sometimes, that means that we need a desktop-like experience with a menu of options. Getting Selective with Dijit. Advanced Dijit Selects using Stores. Sliders with Dijit. Unfortunately, this new input type is not supported in all browsers, and looks different in each browser that does support it.

That's where Dijit's HorizontalSlider and VerticalSlider widgets come in: flexible, themeable, and functional. Creating Template-based Widgets.

Dijit Themes, Buttons, and Textboxes. In this tutorial, we will show you the basics of creating and using simple form elements using Dijit—including how to set up a Dijit theme for your web application.

Forms and Validation. Working with the Grid. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the Grid's event system, how to select rows, and how to set up your grid for editing. Working with Data Creating Stores. Here we will look at the foundation Dojo provides for MVC-advised applications. We will learn how we can leverage Dojo object stores and Stateful objects for the foundational model, and how we can build modular viewer and controller code on top of the model.

Introduction to Datagrid. The DataGrid is the central component of many applications due to its effective and usable presentation of tabular data. In this tutorial we will look at how to define a grid's layout and discuss the scrolling mechanism the DataGrid uses.

Using Dojo Data. Dojo Data is the legacy data interface used to abstract data consumers like widgets from the concerns of data providers. Working with Dates in Dojo. Dates can be awkward to work with in JavaScript. Internationalization with the Dojo Toolkit.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how the Dojo Toolkit supports internationalization i18n , including the use of dictionaries for string substitution, and how basic locale formatting for things such as Date objects, numbers and currencies are supported.

Dojo Object Store. Separation of concerns is a fundamental aspect of good programming. Keeping presentation distinct from the data model is a key separation to employ.

In this tutorial we will look at how to populate a grid and manipulate data in a grid. Real-time Stores. Web applications based on real-time stores give users a level of immediacy not possible with traditional web applications, allowing them to see data as it changes.

The Dojo object store interface, which is the data model foundation of Dojo applications, was designed to support real-time data updates. In this tutorial we will see how to leverage the notification system to interact with real-time widgets. Connecting a Store to a DataGrid. In this tutorial we will look at how to connect the grid to a store for quick and efficient data retrieval and updating.

Connecting a Store to a Tree. The Dojo Tree component is a powerful tool for visual presentation of hierarchical data. In this tutorial we will look at how to connect the tree to a store for quick and efficient data drill-down into nested data.

Content on the web is evolving at a rapid pace, and the path is quickly moving towards mobile devices. As with many other problems on the web, the Dojo Toolkit has the solution: Dojo Mobile.

Dojo Mobile is a framework that allow you to effortlessly create cross-device-compatible mobile web applications. This is the introductory post in a series of posts exploring Dojo Mobile. Throughout the series, we will create a Dojo Mobile application called FlickrView. Before we can get to that, we'll need to learn about why and how to use Dojo Mobile.