{"id":565,"date":"2010-02-07T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:52:16","slug":"app-interface-using-extjs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/app-interface-using-extjs\/","title":{"rendered":"App Interface Using ExtJS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Layout Demo<\/figcaption><\/figure> In the back of my mind I had been thinking about putting up some programming quizzes, similar to the ones I used to have on Visual Basic and C++. I was also thinking that it might be cool to have a quiz engine where users could create their own quizzes. <\/p>\n

I’m not at that point yet, but this past weekend I decided to take the opportunity to try and learn ExtJS<\/a> better and put together an interface for the app. You can see an image of the interface to the right or click here<\/a> to see it in action. It’s pretty basic, but has all the functionality I think I’ll need for now. <\/p>\n

The layout is broken into 3 sections. The top section is the header, to the left you can select quiz categories and get book recommendations, and on the right you get a list of quizzes. Hopefully the “Related Reading” panel doesn’t seem too commercial, as it was actually kind of fun to put together. I didn’t want to set myself up for having to write dozens of quizzes, so right now the interface only lists 3 quizzes (which I’ll hopefully have available soon).<\/p>\n

Right now I’m in limbo about how complex I want this project to be. I’m not sure if I want users to be able to have accounts, and I’m not sure what data I’d want to store in a database. I’m also wondering if quizzes should be static html pages after they’re created. I’ll figure something out though.<\/p>\n

Working with ExtJS was actually a lot of fun, and their online API documentation<\/a> is fantastic. The library also seems to load rather quickly too. When I worked with Dojo<\/a>, I was alarmed at the time the page took to load and how it looked while it loaded. I’m still a little bummed about the licensing for ExtJS, but I can live with certain things being GPL’d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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