Ext 2.0 API Docs on AIR
February 14, 2008 by Jack Slocum
I have been asked quite a few times recently about how difficult it is to take an existing Ext JS application and convert it to Adobe AIR. My answer - theoretically it should be pretty easy if you aren’t using any AIR specific features. However, I thought I would see for myself, using the soon to be available Ext AIR adapter that allows Ext JS to run in the AIR application sandbox.
It took about 20 minutes to take the Ext JS 2.0 API documentation application and get it running on AIR. The only things I had to change were a few paths to point to an ext-2.0 directory instead of a relative path. After that, it just worked.
The most impressive thing is definitely the performance. Even loading large classes, like Ext.Element is instant. I’ve put the application on ExtJS.com for download. Enjoy!
Update: Feb 26th, 2008
- Grab Adobe AIR 1.0
- Install Ext 2.0.2 Docs
awesome work as ever !
one little bug : when clicking to see the js files (”defined in” line), a blank window popup with nothing inside
February 15th, 2008
3:54 am
Thanks ghyster. The normal docs (http://extjs.com/docs) have the same problem. It will be fixed in the next build.
February 15th, 2008
1:29 pm
Cool. This could be interesting for offline applications - thinking gwt-ext 2.0 with the gears API.
February 15th, 2008
2:51 pm
Brilliant, thanks Jack. Will make working with ExtJS even more enjoyable.
On the topic of documentation, it’d be fantastic if we could at some point open up user submission for code examples on each class, tips, gotchas etc.. (the php documentation comes to mind). I find myself frequently hacking up simple examples in firebug whenever I start working with an unfamiliar section part of Ext, just to get a feel for how something works (except when the class api includes example code). Might need some form of moderation to filter out the noise but could accelerate the process of rounding out the excellent API docs with code examples.
Cheers,
Patrick
February 16th, 2008
4:30 am
Hi Patrick. I agree it would definitely be useful to have short code samples in the docs and/or user comments. We hope to have a commenting system for the docs in place in the near future.
February 16th, 2008
9:12 am
I like it too. I started to put some extjs projects under Air, but I’m having trouble with combobox (gives Unsafe Javascript error). Should I start a forum thread on this?
February 16th, 2008
1:05 pm
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February 18th, 2008
2:38 pm
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February 19th, 2008
5:41 am
Thanks Jack. This is going to be very useful.
February 19th, 2008
6:32 am
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February 19th, 2008
6:37 am
Ext 2.0 API Docs on AIR…
[…]I have been asked quite a few times recently about how difficult it is to take an existing Ext JS application and convert it to Adobe AIR. My answer - theoretically it should be pretty easy if you aren’t using any AIR specific features. However,…
February 19th, 2008
11:27 am
[…] he has been playing with Air again, and quickly wrapped the Ext 2.0 docs in Air, which would have been helpful when I was hacking the Ext toy on the […]
February 19th, 2008
2:23 pm
I get an error when trying to install it:
This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.
I’ve got Air 1.0
February 25th, 2008
6:45 am
Same error. Tasks v2 run fine. I would love to have docs local/air..
February 25th, 2008
12:56 pm
Thanks Jack - This is a great utility and I much prefer having the doc’s open in the Air app as oppose to in the browser.
Is it possible to update this to the 2.0.2 release - I’d love to see it added to the Ext download page and updated in future releases.
Thanks,
Dan
February 26th, 2008
2:48 am
There’s a new version available with an update to 2.0.2 and AIR 1.0.
http://extjs.com/downloads/extdocs-2.0.2.air
February 26th, 2008
8:13 am
Jack,
Can you please contact me directly?
Rich
March 3rd, 2008
5:09 am
Hi Jack,
Great work.
Is there a way we can easily, or even better, automatically get notified about new releases of this great app?
I was thinking of a special RSS feed for this, or is there a mechanism build in AIR that allow applications to register a UR in which to check for updates?
Thanks,
splintor
March 11th, 2008
1:26 am
Hi Splintor, from 2.0.3 forward (the next release) an updated version of this application will be available on the Ext JS main website download page andan updated version will be standard part of every release.
March 11th, 2008
7:35 pm
What’s up Jack?
It looks like you have a pretty cool application here. Do you ever think of doing any side work?
I think we can come up with some cool apps together.
Shane
March 12th, 2008
4:46 pm
That last comment looks almost like blog-spam.
March 14th, 2008
10:45 am
Haha, is it sad we can’t differentiate between non spam and spam sometimes
April 1st, 2008
10:41 pm
The AIR does have an self update API, if you, Jack, cold make extdocs.air use that, we´ll don´t need anymore to check for newer version to download and get notified by the won docs that it is a new Ext release… (and we´ll be more lazy yet).
I can see it already in the future… with the Ext chat integrated and so on… simple beautiful!!!
April 6th, 2008
2:51 am
(i don’t speak english… i’ll try ) i want use Ext whit Adobe AIR but the comboBox, the dateField don’t run on the sanbox app(Security Error…) … i don’t use Ext 2.0.2 but they are a version Ext for Adobe AIR? please contact me directly if you can jack….thank.
April 13th, 2008
3:52 pm
Jack-
Our client is looking for help developing an application similar to the sample ones posted on adobe.com/products/air (AOL, finetune, ebay, Nasdaq, etc..)
Would you be interested in discussing this opportunity? Can you recommend someone that would be interested?
Thanks,
Andrew
310.209.9810
April 15th, 2008
1:21 pm
Andrew, please contact us at services AT extjs DOT com. We’d be happy to help. Thanks!
April 21st, 2008
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April 23rd, 2008
7:18 am
Jack Slocum is lame.
April 26th, 2008
1:25 am
I’m still trying to get to grips with the Air CS3 extension for Dreamweaver, any one got any good tutorials or tips?
May 13th, 2008
5:12 pm