Vaadin 7 Cookbook

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Vaadin 7 Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Creating a Project in Vaadin

Introduction

Creating a project in Eclipse IDE

Generating a Vaadin project in Maven archetype

Building a Vaadin application with Gradle

Using Vaadin with Scala

Running Vaadin on Grails

Chapter 2. Layouts

Introduction

Creating an adjustable layout using split panels

Creating a custom layout

Controlling components over the CSS layout

Using CSS layouts for mobile devices

Binding tabs with a hard URL

Using Navigator for creating bookmarkable applications with back-forward button support

Aligning components on a page

Creating UI collections of components

Dragging-and-dropping between different layouts

Building any layout with AbsoluteLayout

Chapter 3. UI Components

Introduction

Viewing details of items in ListSelect

Inserting a button to remove a table row

Creating a line chart with Flot

Creating a pie chart with Highcharts

Drag-and-drop from the desktop

Using DateField with Joda-Time DateTime

Zooming with the slider

Restricting buttons in Rich text area

Styling components with CSS

Chapter 4. Custom Widgets

Introduction

Creating a TextField with counter

Creating a TextField only for digits

Creating a chroma-hash password field

Creating a tri-state checkbox using JavaScript

Styling widgets

Speeding up widget set compilation

Chapter 5. Events

Introduction

Responding immediately to an event in TextArea

Changing Label to TextField by double-clicking

Lazy loading in a table

Reordering columns and rows in a table

Customizing shortcuts

Adding click listener to the Link component

Creating a custom context menu

Updating messages in the menu bar using the ICEPush add-on

Updating the noticeboard using the Refresher add-on

Chapter 6. Messages

Introduction

Showing validation messages

Styling system messages

Showing a login form in pop-up view

Customizing tray notifications

Making a confirmation window

Showing a rich tooltip with an image

Informing about file transfers by a progress bar

Waiting for an indeterminate process

Showing information about browsers

Chapter 7. Working with Forms

Introduction

Creating a simple form

Generating fields from a bean

Binding fields to a bean

Using field validation

Using bean validation

Creating a custom validation

Creating a CRUD form

Filtering items using ComboBox

Chapter 8. Spring and Grails Integration

Introduction

Setting up a Vaadin project with Spring in Maven

Handling login with Spring

Accessing a database with Spring

Internationalizing Vaadin applications with Spring

Vaadin and Spring injector

Internationalizing Vaadin in Grails

Using Grails ORM for Vaadin application

Using Grails services in Vaadin

Adding a Vaadin add-on into Grails project

Chapter 9. Data Management

Introduction

Binding property to a component

Binding items to a component

Binding a container to a component