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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 7.2.0 - Classic Toolkit


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Theming The Ext JS Classic Toolkit

This guide is the continuation of the Ext JS Theming guide and is focused on the Theme API for the Ext JS Classic Toolkit, so please read that guide before proceeding. See the Theming The Ext JS Modern Toolkit guide for information about the modern toolkit.

Requirements

This guide assumes you have met all the Requirements described in the Ext JS Theming guide. To recap:

Setup

This guide assumes you have a workspace, the custom my-theme and the demo-app generated as described in the Ext JS Theming guide.

You should be able to watch the demo application using the following command (or run the sencha app build --development command to compile your styles):

$ sencha app watch --fashion

After running sencha app watch you can pull up your application using the URL:

http://localhost:1841/demo-app/

The --fashion switch will instruct the browser to refresh the styling within the application as you make changes to the application's theme - often in under a second! Reminder: This Live Update feature is supported on modern browsers only (others will require a manual Reload to see changes).

Theming Components

As discussed in general in the previous guide, the Theme API for components consists of variables and mixins. The default appearance of a component is determined by its variables, while custom appearances can be defined and named by calling the "UI mixin".

Configuring Theme Variables

Each themeable Ext JS component has a list of variables that can be used to configure its appearance. Let's change the font-family of Panel Headers in my-theme. Create a file named my-theme/sass/var/panel/Panel.scss and add the following code:

$panel-header-font-family: Times New Roman;

View your application now and you should see that the panel headers use "Times New Roman" font. You can find the complete list of variables for each component in the "Theme Variables" section of the component's API documentation. For example, see Ext.panel.Panel and scroll to the section titled "Theme Variables"

Using Theme Mixins

All components in the Ext JS Classic Toolkit have a ui config property, which defaults to "default". This config property can be configured on individual component instances to give them a different appearance from other instances of the same type. This config is used within the Neptune theme to create different types of Panels and Buttons. For example, panels with the default ui have dark blue headers and panels with the 'light' ui have light blue headers. Buttons use ui's to give toolbar buttons a different appearance from regular buttons.

The theme-neutral theme includes Theme Mixins (or UI Mixins) for many of the different Ext JS components. You can call these mixins to generate a new ui for components. Available mixins for each component are listed in the API documentation. For example, see Ext.panel.Panel and scroll down to the "Theme Mixins" section to see what parameters the Panel UI mixin accepts. Let's use this mixin to create a custom Panel ui.

Create a file named my-theme/sass/src/panel/Panel.scss and add the following to it:

@include extjs-panel-ui(
    $ui: 'highlight-framed',
    $ui-header-background-color: red,
    $ui-border-color: red,
    $ui-header-border-color: red,
    $ui-body-border-color: red,
    $ui-border-width: 5px,
    $ui-border-radius: 5px,
    $ui-header-color: white
);

This mixin call creates a new Panel ui named "highlight" which has a red header background, red bordering, 5px border, 5px border-radius, and white text. To use this ui, configure a Panel with 'highlight' as its ui property (along with frame: true). Open demo-app/app/view/main/List.js and replace its contents with the following:

Ext.define('App.view.main.List', {
    extend: 'Ext.grid.Panel',
    xtype: 'mainlist',

    ui: 'highlight',
    frame: true,

    requires: [
        'App.store.Personnel'
    ],

    title: 'Personnel',

    store: {
        type: 'personnel'
    },

    columns: [
        { text: 'Name',  dataIndex: 'name' },
        { text: 'Email', dataIndex: 'email', flex: 1 },
        { text: 'Phone', dataIndex: 'phone', flex: 1 }
    ],

    listeners: {
        select: 'onItemSelected'
    }
});

View your application in a web browser and you should see the red "highlight" Grid.

While UI mixins are a handy way to configure multiple appearances for a component, they should not be overused. Each call to a UI mixin generates additional CSS rules. Excessive calls to UI mixins can produce an overly large CSS file.

Slicing Images for CSS3 effects in IE

In some themes, many components have rounded corners and linear gradient backgrounds. These effects are simple to accomplish in modern browsers using CSS3. However, Ext JS supports IE8 and IE9 and neither of these browsers support these effects (or do so in a way that makes combining the effects problematic).

Sencha Cmd closes this gap by rendering each component requiring these effects in a headless browser and slicing images from the corners and gradients for use as background images in the component markup in IE8/9. When adding custom ui's you'll need to include them in the slicing manifest used by Sencha Cmd so that the component decorated with the custom ui will be sliced for use in IE8/9.

To do this, we need to tell Sencha Cmd which components and ui's need slicing. In order to create slices for the rounded corners of the "highlight" panel ui that you created earlier in the guide, edit the file named my-theme/sass/example/custom.js and add the following:

Ext.theme.addManifest({
    xtype: 'panel',
    ui: 'highlight'
});

Note: Multiple manifest entries may be added in the same addManifest call like:

Ext.theme.addManifest({
    xtype: 'panel',
    ui: 'highlight'
}, {
    xtype: 'button',
    ui: 'green'
});

If you create an original component that requires slicing you'll need to add any applicable ui configs to the slicing manifest as demonstrated above. You will also need to add config entries for the custom component using the Ext.theme.addShortcuts() call in custom.js.

The shortcut configs along with the ui's passed to the manifest will be used in rendering the custom component for slicing.

For a more detailed description of how to use Ext.theme.addShortcuts and Ext.theme.addManifest, refer to the inline documentation descriptions for each method found in my-theme/sass/example/render.js. You can refer to examples of addShortcuts for the framework components within the ext/classic/theme-base/sass/example/shortcuts.js file.

Modifying Image Assets

As an example of modifying an image asset let's change the info icon of the MessageBox component. Save the following image as my-theme/resources/images/shared/icon-info.png. This image asset will take precedence over the one used in the parent Crisp theme at my-workspace/ext/classic/theme-crisp/resources/images/shared/icon-info.png.

Now modify your test application to show a MessageBox that uses the custom icon. Add the following tbar config to the "highlight" Grid in your application's demo-app/app/view/main/List.js file:

...
tbar: [{
    text: 'Show Message',
    handler: function() {
        Ext.Msg.show({
            title: 'Info',
            msg: 'Message Box with custom icon',
            buttons: Ext.MessageBox.OK,
            icon: Ext.MessageBox.INFO
        });
    }
}]
...

Now, view the app in the browser. When you click the "Show Message" button you should see that the MessageBox contains a friendly face.

Styling Your Application

Styling that is not shared between applications belongs in the application itself, not in the theme. Sencha Cmd provides an easy way to add application-level styling by allowing you to organize your styles right alongside your JavaScript code.

Styling Your Application's Views

To write CSS rules associated with an application view, you create an .scss file in the same folder and with the same base name as the view. For example, to style the view App.view.main.Main, located in demo-app/app/view/main/Main.js, you would put that code in demo-app/app/view/main/Main.scss.

Let's style the content of the Users tab in the App application:

.content-panel-body h2 {
    color: orange;
}

Add the content-panel-body CSS class to the config of the Users panel in your application's Main.js file:

...
title: 'Users',
iconCls: 'fa-user',
html: '<h2>Content appropriate for the current navigation.</h2>',
bodyCls: 'content-panel-body'
...

View your application and you'll see that the h2 element in the Users view is now orange. While the ability to add arbitrary CSS styles offers maximum flexibility, any styling applied directly to elements owned by Ext JS components should be styled using the Ext JS theming API whenever possible. Using the theming API safeguards your styling against breaking markup changes in future versions of Ext JS.

Additional Notes

'default' Component Images

Various components have images relating the the component's "default" ui (Buttons, Menus, etc.). When you create a custom ui for one of these components you'll notice when the theme is compiled it warns that images for your theme were not found.

WARNING: @theme-background-image: Theme image not found:

While refreshing the theme or app, Sencha Cmd will be looking for images using the ui name in place of "default" in the image name. For example, if you create a mixin ui with a name of "admin" for small Buttons, Sencha Cmd will warn that "admin-small-arrow.png" was not found.

The solution to this warning is to copy over any image assets with "default" in the file name from the theme you're extending into the custom theme's resources/images directory. You'll then rename those files and replace "default" with the name of your custom ui. In the case of the "admin" button ui in your custom theme extending Neptune you would copy the "default" images from the ext/classic/theme-neptune/resources/images/button folder and paste them into packages/local/my-theme/resources/images/button/. You'll then rename all "default" instances to "admin". For instance:

$ mv default-small-arrow.png admin-small-arrow.png

Ext.button.Button

Button ui images will need to be copied from the parent theme to the custom theme when creating a custom ui. See the "'default' Component Images" section above for more detail.

Button scale can be configured as small, medium, or large with small being the default. When creating custom UIs for buttons you'll need to provide a button mixin for each scale used in your application.

Note: The extjs-button-ui mixin should be avoided in favor styling buttons using the scale-specific mixins.

@include extjs-button-small-ui(
    $ui: 'green',
    $background-color: green
);

@include extjs-button-medium-ui(
    $ui: 'green',
    $background-color: green
);

@include extjs-button-large-ui(
    $ui: 'green',
    $background-color: green
);

The same applies when using the -toollbar button mixins. Each has a scale and should be included separately in the Button.scss file in order to support all button scales. Additionally, when working with the -toolbar button mixins you will need to add -toolbar to the ui config of the button in your application. Below is an example mixin for a small toolbar button mixin:

@include extjs-button-toolbar-small-ui(
    $ui: 'green',
    $background-color: green
);

which would decorate a button configured in a toolbar like:

xtype: 'toolbar',
items: [{
    text: 'Toolbar Button',
    ui: 'green-toolbar'
}]

Ext.panel.Panel

Panels may be configured with frame: true and are frame: false by default. So, by default if you have a ui config of ui: 'highlight' then the resulting Panel.scss would look like:

@include extjs-panel-ui(
    $ui: 'highlight',
    $ui-header-background-color: red,
    $ui-border-color: red,
    $ui-header-border-color: red,
    $ui-body-border-color: red,
    $ui-border-width: 5px,
    $ui-border-radius: 5px
);

However, this will only apply styling to non-framed panels. In order to style panels configured with frame: true and ui: 'highlight' you will need to add -framed to the $ui name in the Panel.scss file. Commonly both the framed and unframed ui versions will be represented in Panel.scss

@include extjs-panel-ui(
    $ui: 'highlight',
    $ui-header-background-color: red,
    $ui-border-color: red,
    $ui-header-border-color: red,
    $ui-body-border-color: red,
    $ui-border-width: 5px,
    $ui-border-radius: 5px
);

@include extjs-panel-ui(
    $ui: 'highlight-framed',
    $ui-header-background-color: red,
    $ui-border-color: red,
    $ui-header-border-color: red,
    $ui-body-border-color: red,
    $ui-border-width: 5px,
    $ui-border-radius: 5px
);

Ext.menu.Menu

Menu ui images will need to be copied from the parent theme to the custom theme when creating a custom ui. See the "'default' Component Images" section above for more detail.

Ext.toolbar.Breadcrumb

Breadcrumb ui images will need to be copied from the parent theme to the custom theme when creating a custom ui. See the "'default' Component Images" section above for more detail.

Ext.tab.Tab

Tab ui images will need to be copied from the parent theme to the custom theme when creating a custom ui. See the "'default' Component Images" section above for more detail.

When creating a tab ui be sure to include all applicable state vars you want to style including the -active tab states such as $ui-color-active, $ui-background-color-active, etc.

Ext.tab.Bar

TabBar ui images will need to be copied from the parent theme to the custom theme when creating a custom ui. See the "'default' Component Images" section above for more detail.

Note: When creating a TabBar ui with the extjs-tab-bar-ui mixin, you will need to create a corresponding tab-ui of the same name.

This will ensure that the tabs render properly in your theme. Not creating a matching tab theme may result in unpredictable tab rendering.

Ext.toolbar.Toolbar

Toolbar ui images will need to be copied from the parent theme to the custom theme when creating a custom ui. See the "'default' Component Images" section above for more detail.

Upgrading from Ext JS 5.x

While most of the updates to themeing occurred behind the scenes between Ext JS 5 and 6, there are a few changes to note when upgrading your theme.

Any variables defined in sass/etc/all.scss should be moved to sass/var/all.scss (or a .scss file @import-ed by sass/var/all.scss).

(recommended) Remove !default from the end of variable declarations

(recommended) Relocate your custom theme folder from the root packages/ folder in your application / workspace to packages/local/.

Ext JS 7.2.0 - Classic Toolkit