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Terms, Icons, and Labels

Many classes have shortcut names used when creating (instantiating) a class with a configuration object. The shortcut name is referred to as an alias (or xtype if the class extends Ext.Component). The alias/xtype is listed next to the class name of applicable classes for quick reference.

Access Levels

Framework classes or their members may be specified as private or protected. Else, the class / member is public. Public, protected, and private are access descriptors used to convey how and when the class or class member should be used.

Member Types

Member Syntax

Below is an example class member that we can disect to show the syntax of a class member (the lookupComponent method as viewed from the Ext.button.Button class in this case).

lookupComponent ( item ) : Ext.Component
protected

Called when a raw config object is added to this container either during initialization of the items config, or when new items are added), or {@link #insert inserted.

This method converts the passed object into an instanced child component.

This may be overridden in subclasses when special processing needs to be applied to child creation.

Parameters

item :  Object

The config object being added.

Returns
Ext.Component

The component to be added.

Let's look at each part of the member row:

Member Flags

The API documentation uses a number of flags to further commnicate the class member's function and intent. The label may be represented by a text label, an abbreviation, or an icon.

Class Icons

- Indicates a framework class

- A singleton framework class. *See the singleton flag for more information

- A component-type framework class (any class within the Ext JS framework that extends Ext.Component)

- Indicates that the class, member, or guide is new in the currently viewed version

Member Icons

- Indicates a class member of type config

- Indicates a class member of type property

- Indicates a class member of type method

- Indicates a class member of type event

- Indicates a class member of type theme variable

- Indicates a class member of type theme mixin

- Indicates that the class, member, or guide is new in the currently viewed version

Class Member Quick-Nav Menu

Just below the class name on an API doc page is a row of buttons corresponding to the types of members owned by the current class. Each button shows a count of members by type (this count is updated as filters are applied). Clicking the button will navigate you to that member section. Hovering over the member-type button will reveal a popup menu of all members of that type for quick navigation.

Getter and Setter Methods

Getting and setter methods that correlate to a class config option will show up in the methods section as well as in the configs section of both the API doc and the member-type menus just beneath the config they work with. The getter and setter method documentation will be found in the config row for easy reference.

History Bar

Your page history is kept in localstorage and displayed (using the available real estate) just below the top title bar. By default, the only search results shown are the pages matching the product / version you're currently viewing. You can expand what is displayed by clicking on the button on the right-hand side of the history bar and choosing the "All" radio option. This will show all recent pages in the history bar for all products / versions.

Within the history config menu you will also see a listing of your recent page visits. The results are filtered by the "Current Product / Version" and "All" radio options. Clicking on the button will clear the history bar as well as the history kept in local storage.

If "All" is selected in the history config menu the checkbox option for "Show product details in the history bar" will be enabled. When checked, the product/version for each historic page will show alongside the page name in the history bar. Hovering the cursor over the page names in the history bar will also show the product/version as a tooltip.

Search and Filters

Both API docs and guides can be searched for using the search field at the top of the page.

On API doc pages there is also a filter input field that filters the member rows using the filter string. In addition to filtering by string you can filter the class members by access level, inheritance, and read only. This is done using the checkboxes at the top of the page.

The checkbox at the bottom of the API class navigation tree filters the class list to include or exclude private classes.

Clicking on an empty search field will show your last 10 searches for quick navigation.

API Doc Class Metadata

Each API doc page (with the exception of Javascript primitives pages) has a menu view of metadata relating to that class. This metadata view will have one or more of the following:

Expanding and Collapsing Examples and Class Members

Runnable examples (Fiddles) are expanded on a page by default. You can collapse and expand example code blocks individually using the arrow on the top-left of the code block. You can also toggle the collapse state of all examples using the toggle button on the top-right of the page. The toggle-all state will be remembered between page loads.

Class members are collapsed on a page by default. You can expand and collapse members using the arrow icon on the left of the member row or globally using the expand / collapse all toggle button top-right.

Desktop -vs- Mobile View

Viewing the docs on narrower screens or browsers will result in a view optimized for a smaller form factor. The primary differences between the desktop and "mobile" view are:

Viewing the Class Source

The class source can be viewed by clicking on the class name at the top of an API doc page. The source for class members can be viewed by clicking on the "view source" link on the right-hand side of the member row.

Ext JS 5.1.2


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Ext JS 5.1 Upgrade Guide

Introduction

With this release of Ext JS, we have worked hard to minimize the impact of changes on existing code, but in some situations this was not completely achievable. This guide walks through the most important changes and their potential impact on Ext JS 5.0 applications.

Packaging

We have removed the top-level "ext*.js" files from the distribution. These files were of limited use in Ext JS 5 and were only preserved for testing and debugging the examples using the dynamic loader. Because Ext JS 5 is a Sencha Cmd Package, its build content has always been in the "build" sub-folder, but the presence of these stubs in the root has generally created confusion for those familiar with previous releases.

You can run the examples in their built, optimized form from the "build/examples" folder.

To restore these stubs, you can run this command from the root folder of the extracted archive:

sencha ant bootstrap

Unification of Ext.util.Observable and Ext.mixin.Observable APIs

As mentioned in What's New in Ext JS 5.1, Ext JS 5.1 still has two Observable classes (Ext.mixin.Observable, and Ext.util.Observable), but their API differences have been eliminated. There is only one exception: Ext.mixin.Observable calls initConfig in its constructor whereas Ext.util.Observable uses the legacy Ext.apply approach to copy config object properties onto the instance.
We recommend that applications use Ext.mixin.Observable going forward, but we will continue to support Ext.util.Observable for the foreseeable future since many classes internal to the framework and in user code depend upon its behavior.

Priority Ordering of Listeners

In the past the two Observables offered two different approaches to sorting listeners that needed to be run in a specific order. Ext.util.Observable used a numeric "priority" option to sort the listeners, while Ext.mixin.Observable used the “order” option which only had 3 possible values - “before”, “after”, and “current” (the default). Since “priority is the more flexible of the two, we are standardizing on it going forward, but the “order” option is still supported for compatibility reasons. Along with this change we have deprecated several convenience methods for adding a listener with a particular order:

  • addBeforeListener
  • addAfterListener
  • removeBeforeListener
  • removeAfterListener
  • onBefore
  • onAfter
  • unBefore
  • unAfter

API Unification

As part of the API unification process, each Observable class gains some features that were previously only available in the other Observable.

Ext.util.Observable gains the following features:

  • Auto-managed listeners - When calling on(), if a scope is provided, and that scope is an Observable instance, the listener will automatically become a "managed" listener. This means simply that when the scope object is destroyed, the listener will automatically be removed. This eliminates the need to use the mon() method in a majority of cases since the managing observable and the scope are typically the same object.

  • The fireAction method - Fires the specified event with the passed parameters and executes a function

  • The "order" option

  • The "args" option

Ext.mixin.Observable gains the following features

  • Class-level observability - allows entire classes of objects to be observed via the static observe() method

  • The "priority" event option

Plugin Authoring

In Ext JS 5.0, component plugins are automatically destroyed when the component is destroyed. This safety enhancement ensures that all plugins are cleaned up with their component but this can conflict with plugins written for previous versions of the framework have their own handling of component destroy. This is more prominent in Ext JS 5.1 due to the above merging of Observables and how listeners are auto-managed. The resolution is to remove any listeners for "destroy" events and instead rely on the destroy method being called by the component.

Two-Way Binding To Formulas

Prior to Ext JS 5.1, a two-way binding to a formula would not always write the value back as expected. Consider the following fiddle:

The ViewModel has a formula:

Ext.define('App.view.FooModel', {
    extend: 'Ext.app.ViewModel',
    alias: 'viewmodel.foo',

    formulas: {
        x2: {
            get: function (getter) {
                return getter('x') * 2;
            },

            set: function (value) {
                this.set('x', value / 2);
            }
        }
    }
});

The "x2" property in the above ViewModel is defined as "twice the value of 'x'". The view that is created has a child component with its own ViewModel:

Ext.define('App.view.Foo', {
    extend: 'Ext.panel.Panel',

    viewModel: {
        type: 'foo',
        data: {
            x: 10
        }
    },        

    bind: {
        title: 'Formula: {x2} = 2 * {x}'
    },

    items: [{
        xtype: 'numberfield',
        viewModel: {
            data: {
                label: 'Something'
            }
        },

        bind: {
            value: '{x2}',
            fieldLabel: '{label}'
        }
    }]
});

In this contrived example, we have two components each with their own ViewModel. Initially, the value of x was delivered to the formula and then x2 was delivered to the numberfield. When the number was increased, however, the value of x2 was simply written to the child's ViewModel.

This behavior is consistent with the fact that ViewModel data is based on the JavaScript prototype chain, but was at odds with the goal of formulas. In Ext JS 5.1, writes to a formula will properly "climb" to the ViewModel with the formula defined and perform the set at that level.

Container move Event

The Ext.container.Container move event to indicate that a child component has had the index moved has been renamed to childmove. This resolves the conflict between this event and the Ext.Component move event.

ComboBox select Event

The Ext.form.field.ComboBox select event had an inconsistency where the records parameter would be passed as a single record in some cases or an array of records in others. This has now been corrected. The default behavior is to provide a array of records only when using multiSelect:true. The documentation for the event has been updated to reflect this.

Ext.FocusManager Removed

Due to conflicts with built-in focus treatment introduced in Ext JS 5.0.1, Ext.FocusManager has been removed.

For more details regarding accessibility, focus, and keyboard navigation improvements, see the Accessibility Guide.

Menus

Ext.menu.MenuManager no longer registers all Menus within your application. To access Menus in a global manner use Ext.ComponentQuery.

Charts

The axis rangechange event listener signature changed to include a missing parameter: the axis itself, which is now the first parameter, e.g.:

listeners: {
    rangechange: function (axis, range) {
        ...

SQL Proxy

The Ext.data.proxy.Sql class has been removed for Ext JS 5.1 but will be restored in a future release. This class was not planned to be in Ext JS 5.0 but was accidentally included during the merge of Sencha Touch and Ext JS data packages. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Ext JS 5.1.2