For windows users, it may be wise to install sencha architect with the same admin rights as the dependencies so sencha architect can access them. While working on a sencha touch project i needed to look in one of the core sencha files. Magento software recommendations signal processing emacs raspberry. Senchas documentation about glyphs icons on buttons, panels and tabs in sencha ext js and touch is poor. The icons will be shown on the home screen for iphone and ipad applications. Font awesome icons not showing on canvas hi, i opened a sencha architect project today after a long time of not using it it is possible that i upgraded to the latest version of sa since opening this project and none of the font awesome icons are showing. So far, weve looked at some basic concepts related to how to approach modifying a sencha touch app theme, as well as walked through exactly how all the pieces fit together in the sass magic. Where is the list of names of pictos font icons in sencha. These themes augment the existing standard sencha touch and windows phone themes. Jun 20, 2014 sencha touch uses fonts to render the applications icons which allows for improved performance through lower memory consumption. When the scss files are compiled, it creates a new file in your css folder. For some reason the fonts are not recognized by compass as being part of the sencha touch distribution.
After a big of digging i found the code needed to turn off caching. Instead touch now uses the much more flexible and faster webfonts. Apr 04, 20 in prior versions of sencha touch you would use the sass pictosiconmask mixin to encode a png file and add appropriate style references into your generated css file. The particular pictos icons that are made available as part of ext js have been licensed to sencha for inclusion in ext js and downstream use by ext js licensees. In it, you will place the references to the sencha touch library, as well as to the javascript files containing the applications code. As the only workaround all icons has to be loaded as background images instead. Full list of all those token you can find out, if you open touch distribution file. A beautiful mosaic image gallery with sencha touch 2. As you can see, the code is clean and easily reusable via copy and paste. Building web apps for windows 10 using sencha by arthur kay october 6, 2014 0 comments. In prior versions of sencha touch you would use the sass pictosiconmask mixin to encode a png file and add appropriate style references into your generated css file. A platform can be a different browser such as chrome, internet explorer 10, or safari, or a. Oct 03, 2012 read more from javascript, programming, sencha touch 2, web.
Its great for making sure your code isnt cached, but terrible for debugging. Building web apps for windows 10 using sencha aka web design. The pictos font is not the only font you can use in your application. How to make glyphs work in sencha architect and ext js. While i know a lot of people will find the content useful, the sad fact is that im about two years late on creating that package. Sencha just announced the support for windows phone 8 in sencha touch, a high performance html5 mobile application framework. The main difference between titlebar and toolbar is that the title configuration is always centered horizontally in a titlebar between any items aligned left or right. Sencha touch comes with an array of beautiful icons for almost every need of your app. Unlike previous versions of sencha touch, version 2. That code adds the buttons to a sencha toolbar thats docked at the bottom of the container its used in.
In addition to the support for the platform, a new theme is available that. Expandcollapse on the lefthand size of the member row is a control used to expand and collapse each member row to show hide member details member name the name of the class member lookupcomponent in this example. Installation and setup architect 3 sencha documentation. This stencil contains buttons, date picker, form elements, toolbars, and more. This has also been tested with sencha architect projects. In this article, learn to apply your current web development skills to mobile web development.
Themes let you customize the css in your application for different platforms. This file contains all the code minified with no comments in the file. Configuring your application with new icons using webfonts is simple. Windows users should download the ruby installer from. You can also customize your own buttons with a mixin as follows. If you needed a list of sencha touch 2 iconcls values, i hope this post has been helpful. In sencha touch documentation and forums, i could not find the list of names of 96 pictos font icons that i should pass in icon mixin in order to import. To use this new feature it is mandatory to setup your project with sass.
Sencha touch themes take sass and compass one step further. By default, the pictos font icons package is not included into the triton theme. Sencha touch provides a base theme that you can customize, or builtin themes for sencha touch, internet explorer 10. However, if youve made a few apps youll realize that not all the icons in the resources folder work in the iconcls. Icon fonts on windows phone sencha touch tech amigos. Device camera access with sencha touch modus create. Sencha cmd not only can you build your applications, but you can also build themes, generate code, or use the builtin web server jetty 8. Learn everything you need to know to start working with the sencha touch. A platform can be a different browser such as chrome, internet explorer 10, or safari, or a device category such as android, ios, blackberry 10, windows phone, or microsoft surface pro or rt. Method param any required or optional params used by a method or passed to an event handler.
We have also moved away from webkitmask icons and instead are using the pictos. How to use sass with sencha touch without sencha cmd. If youd like a broader set of pictos icons, please visit pictos. Titlebar is most commonly used as docked item in container or panel. Download and set up sencha touch, and explore the basics using a sample application. Yes, you need to install ruby and rubygems only if youre on windows because they are pre bundled on mac then you just need to open the right scss file in touch resourcessass depending on what them youre using and to add the following line to it. Sencha touch theming lets you group together css styles as a theme so that you can. Create your own webfont file in woff, truetype, or svg format. This is the unminified version of sencha touch all. Where is the list of names of pictos font icons in sencha touch 2. Learn everything you need to know to start working with the sencha touch framework. If your project not yet including sass, take a look at this article theming sencha touch with sass.
I want to use the pictos icons in sencha touch 2 architect and have viewed the videos, docs, etc. In prior versions of sencha touch you would use the sass pictos iconmask mixin to encode a png file and add appropriate style references into your generated css file. For a list of all available font awesome icons, please check out the font awesome cheatsheet font packages are included by specifying the font package name above in the requires array of your app. Sencha touch provides a number of themes to be used in your applications. The readme explains the steps for creating icons at the ico moon web site and using the tool to convert. I got everything to work except for the check mark, it disappeared from all default checkboxes after i did away with the default pictos font. Incorporate pictos font icons package into triton theme issue. Read more from javascript, programming, sencha touch 2, web theming.
The app is running fine, but where the heck are my icons. Oct 30, 2012 sencha just announced the support for windows phone 8 in sencha touch, a high performance html5 mobile application framework. In this video tutorial i show you how to create a sliding menu in sencha touch from scratch. Create a locationaware site with sencha touch displaying. I know that this code works in sencha extjs, and it probably works. Ui layouts and components for the html5 mobile framework sencha touch. By default, theres a wide array of icons we can access for a list of what is available you can check out a reference table here. Sencha touch uses fonts to render the applications icons which allows for improved performance through lower memory consumption. Before youll be able to use some icons however, youll have to reference them in your. You can read more about this at steve drucker blog changes to sencha touch 2. In todays post i am going to show you how to create a simple form in sencha touch with validation. Use custom button icons in sencha touch techtalktone. Also, at times you may need to make your own app specific icons and personalize your app.
Since theming in sencha touch and extjs 4 are extremely similar, i thought id walk through the same process, but with an extjs 4 flair. Using custom icons in a sencha touch application joshmorony. I know that this code works in sencha extjs, and it probably works in sencha touch as well. Adding a login screen to a sencha touch application. I have developed a component for the same and wrote a detailed blog post on it which you can find here mosaic image gallery with sencha touch. I will create a simple login form with username and password field and create a model which contains fields and validation logic. Notice that we are currently including a stylesheet from the css folder, called senchatouch. This is due to the new layout manager which removes the need to call dolayout separately. The pictos font provides a large collection of free icons. Sencha touch is a mobile web application framework that was built using html5, css3, and the javascript language.
In a previous post, i walked through the simple process of creating a custom ui for a toolbar in sencha touch. Of course youll probably want to add your own custom icons to your sencha touch app at some point, so here are some resources for that. In sencha touch 2, that was a linear search, but both are backed by maps. How to add save and cancel buttons to a sencha extjs. This ext js tip shows how you can conditionally destroy a window with a confirmation. This is the core file which contains all functionalities to run the application.
You can add different themes in place of classic theme and see the difference in the output based on the device we are using for the application. Mar 28, 2012 notice that we are currently including a stylesheet from the css folder, called sencha touch. Sencha touch provides a means to define these icons in the application class. Compasssass is implemented for the project understand all the theory but need current implementation specifics. Jul 18, 20 the sencha website advises if you are running the iis web server on windows, manually add applicationxjson as a mime type for sencha touch to work properly. When the scss files are compiled, it creates a new. We recently refactored the stencil to render better in the stencil palette. The same components are used here just the data properties are different. Where are the pictos icons located can be downloaded from. A few weeks ago, i wrote this post on the sencha blog. Thats just a custom mixing that allow us to use the pictos icons on any dom node such as the tag. In sencha touch 2, only getbyinternalid was a map lookup, and since internalid was not always the same as id, applications needed to call getbyid. Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application creative. Now lets create a mobile folder, for our sencha touch development.
Feb 28, 2012 sencha touch comes with an array of beautiful icons for almost every need of your app. For this you have to copy the folder themesfonts in your sencha touch distribution to a new folder called stylesheets in the folder styles. As you know touch sdk ships with the pictos font, and it already loads some basic icons for you to use directly on buttons with iconcls. If youd like a broader set of pictos icons, please visit to license and give your support. Also where to put them in a project under resources icons. Building our custom stylesheet with sass ok, lets recap.