A low-level library is interesting for all those who like to use the low-level APIs of qooxdoo. Such a library consists of a pre-build javascript file that contains only the low-level classes of qooxdoo. For instance, no GUI toolkit (widgets, layouts, theming) is included.
To create your low-level application skeleton you can let do the tool-chain the heavy lifting and use the create-application.py script to generate the skeleton.
$QOOXDOO_PATH/tool/bin/create-application.py -n appName -t bom -o $OUTPUT-DIR
The t parameter is the important one to define the application as a bom type application. To show all available options of this mighty script just type
$QOOXDOO_PATH/tool/bin/create-application.py ?
Looking at the output of your generated low-level library skeleton you first realize that no source folder exists. The simple reason for this is, that you can easily use the low-level APIs without creating your own application classes. Instead you add your logic directly into the given index.html or in whatever HTML file you like to.
Before you can descend to the low-levels you have to generate a javascript file containing the qooxdoo low-level classes.
./generate.py build
This pre-defined job is all you have to execute to start right away.
Note
The generated build script is a compilation of low-level classes, but it does not provide all classes of the qx.bom or qx.dom namespace. Please take a look at the provide config.json file to determine which file is included. The low-level wrapper of the XmlHttpRequest object ( qx.bom.Request ) is not provided by default.
As already mentioned implementing your logic is a no-brainer. Just grab the existing index.html file and start right away.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.2//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script src="qx-bom.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// get informed about startup
qx.event.Registration.addListener(window, "ready", onReady);
function onReady(e)
{
<!-- your application code resides here -->
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- more HTML -->
</body>
</html>