Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Can you tell me more about YUI integration ?
  2. Why no Internet Explorer 6 support ?
  3. Where can I find the CSS file to help me customizing the library?
  4. Why is the demo access so slow?
  5. How can I bind some custom JavaScript code on components event?
  6. Do you offer the TLD related to the library?
Can you tell me more about YUI integration ?

Exanpe library includes YUI 2 JavaScript modules as basis for almost all components.

The current version of YUI embedded is 2.9.0.

The YUI resources are automatically loaded through @Import over the components classes.

Obviously, only the components required resources are loaded, not all YUI.



Regardless the embedding of the JavaScript framework, Exanpe provides a way to include your own YUI2 distribution. This can be really easily set up by contributing the symbol ExanpeSymbols.YUI2_BASE in your Module class.

The requirement is that you own a YUI distribution packaged as standards, containing all the Exanpe dependencies.

. 

           public static void contributeApplicationDefaults(MappedConfiguration<String, String> configuration)
   		        configuration.add(ExanpeSymbols.YUI2_BASE, "context:/js/yui/mydistrib/");
With that overriding, Exanpe library will expect to find a file context:/js/yui/mydistrib/animation/animation-min.js in your application.

Here are the YUI dependencies :
  • animation-min
  • button-min
  • carousel-min
  • colorpicker-min
  • connection-min
  • container-min
  • dragdrop-min
  • element-min
  • json-min
  • slider-min
  • utilities
  • yahoo-dom-event

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Why no Internet Explorer 6 support ?

Internet Explorer 6 is now a 10 year old browser, and not the best one.

It is such a mess and causes so much pain that, as for Internet Explorer 5.5 and previous versions, we have not tested the components and would be scared to see the result.

Sorry, move on !

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Where can I find the CSS file to help me customizing the library?

You can download the CSS skin file, with comments, here.

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Why is the demo access so slow?

Our demo is hosted by Google App Engine (GAE). We are limited by daily quotas and instances restrictions.

A way for you to test it easily would be to have a look at our examples sources (@see github exanpe-t5-demo project) and test them anywhere or download the war file here.

We apologize for any inconvenience about this but we do not own a J2EE server on the web. Contact us for any offer :)

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How can I bind some custom JavaScript code on components event?

Some components provide JavaScript events that you can bind on in order to customize the component behavior (see the JsDoc, events are marked @event and named afterXXX/beforeXXX/onXXX).

Overriding the event is really simple:

- To override a single component instance, add the following code below the component declaration:

  YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function(){
    ${componentId}.${eventFunction} = function(){
      //write your code here !
    }
  });
- To override for all the components in your application, add the following code into a JavaScript file imported after the exanpe-t5-lib.js:

  Exanpe.${componentName}.prototype.${eventFunction} = function(){
    //write your code here !
  }




Example : 
 
  <t:select t:mixins="exanpe/selectLoader" t:id="country" 
            t:targetId="city"  model="country" value="countryValue" encoder="countryEncoder"/>
   		   		
    YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function(){
      country.afterUpdateSuccess = function(){
        YAHOO.util.Dom.get("type").options.length = 0;
      }
    });

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Do you offer the TLD related to the library?

Yes, the TLD that might help you to develop in Eclipse is available here.

Check this link for explanation on how to use it.

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