Reputation:
i'm currently writing a large scale application heavily based on the dojo toolkit. The whole app is working and standing, but one issue i can not find my way out with, is the creation of custom widgets. It would be useful because it would clean up my source code and also i can reuse this 'widgets' in later projects.
For example: i have a main toolbar, which i would like to call using
myapp.toolbar = new myapp.mainToolbar();
instead of using
myapp.toolbar = new new dijit.Toolbar({}, containerID);
var button1 = new dijit.form.Button({
label: 'Delete',
id: 'toolbarbutton1',
showLabel: true,
iconClass: "dijitEditorIcon dijitEditorIcon Delete"
});
myapp.toolbar.addChild(button1);
...
So in short: how do i set up the whole toolbar somewhere else and call it as a simple object? Trying to figure out dojo.declare('myapp.mainToolbar', dijit.Toolbar, {...})
but then i get a bunch of errors like 'startup function not existing' etc...
I'd like to do all this programmatically, so without the template html and css files in a custom widget.
A link to a good tutorial or howto would be nice, although google nor yahoo! will reveal any extra's on this matter for me... :)
Upvotes: 0
Views: 695
Reputation: 1931
There are multiple ways to do this.
It seems like your method of extending Toolbar should work (not sure why it didn't).
You can also declare a class that embeds Toolbar and the buttons, using widgetsInTemplate:
dojo.declare("MyToolbar", [dijit._Widget, dijit._Templated], {
_widgetsInTemplate: true,
templateString: '<div> <div dojoType=dijit.Toolbar>' +
' <button dojoType=dijit.form.Button ...
Note that the top node in MyToolbar can't have a dojoType, so I put Toolbar one level down.
Alternately you can do the same thing by using dijit.Declaration, see http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit/Declaration.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 37297
It works for me when I use declare with the superclass inside of an array:
dojo.declare('myapp.mainToolbar', [ dijit.Toolbar ],
{
....
}
);
var x = new myapp.mainToolbar({ ... });
x.startup();
Which kind of violates the docs. It should take one Function or an array of Functions.
Upvotes: 0