Together with Fabian I did a workshop GUI Development with qooxdoo using the brand new qooxdoo 0.8-alpha1. The workshop was planned for three hours on the workshop day of the Webinale 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany. It contains these parts:

  • Status of 0.8
  • First Steps
  • Understanding the GUI
  • Creating the GUI
  • Data Handling
  • Making It Work
  • Improving the GUI

Due to the fact that the topic is quite advanced, the workshop ended without showing the last third of the presentation.

If you were in the presentation or are interested in a qooxdoo 0.8 workshop, please feel free to download the prepared material (about 13MB). The archive contains a snapshot of the framework folder of qooxdoo. The prebuilt application steps make use of this qooxdoo version (Due to the trunk's nature to change rapidly newer or older versions may not work by the way). You do not need to have a current checkout of qooxdoo's trunk.

Try to follow the described steps on your own. Each snapshot (in the Snapshots folder) contains the full implementation done the corresponding slide. You can find step-by-step code blocks in the Steps folder. At the bottom of some slides you can find a small area where the current step is mentioned. Use this to keep in sync with the snapshot or code block.

If you have questions or comments feel free to post them here or on our mailing list. We are really interested in any feedback for this quite new presentation style (at least for us).