Development

This section touches on various aspects and tools related to development activities with qooxdoo. Topics range from the various qooxdoo application types, over discussions of performance, unit testing and debugging, to internationalization and parts, a specific means to partition and lazily load application components.

Application Creation

• Application Skeletons
  • Desktop
  • Inline
  • Mobile
  • Native
  • Website
  • Server
• How to Develop a qooxdoo Application
  • Application Layout
  • Generate before Run
  • Source versus Build

Debugging

• Logging System
  • Writing Log Messages
  • Log Appenders
  • Writing Custom Log Appenders
• Debugging Applications
  • Introspection
  • Memory leaks
  • AJAX
  • Debugging Tools
  • Code Instrumentation Idioms
  • Getting at your Objects
  • Firebug Usage Idioms

Performance

• Memory Management
  • Introduction
  • Disposing an application
  • Example destructor
  • How to test the destructor
  • Finding memory leaks
• Profiling Applications
  • How to enable the Profiler
  • How to use the Profiler
  • Limitations
  • Summary

Testing

• Unit Testing
• Test Runner

Code Organisation

• Code Organisation Introduction
• Custom Libraries
• qooxdoo-contrib

Parts

• Parts and Packages Overview
  • Motivation
  • Development Model
  • Loading Parts
• Using Parts
  • Basic Usage
  • In Depth: Configuring the "include" Key of your Parts
  • Advanced Usage: Part Collapsing

Further Resources

• Generator Configuration
• qooxdoo API

Internationalization

• Internationalization, Localization
  • Localization
  • Translation

• PO File Cheat Sheet

Documenting Code

• Writing API Documentation
  • An introductory example
  • Advanced Doc Comments
  • Package documentation
• JSDoc Reference
  • Overall JSDoc Structure
  • Inline Markup
  • Attributes / Documentation Tags
  • Handling of Data Types
  • Matching of Names in Code
  • Section Reference
• @ignore
  • Variadic Arguments
  • Double Relevance
  • Name Globbing
  • Scoped Application

Miscellaneous

• Image clipping and combining
  • Configuration
  • Running Image Jobs
  • Benefits
• Reporting Bugs
• An Aspect Template Class
• Internet Explorer specific settings
  • Document Mode in IE8
  • Using alpha-transparent PNGs
  • URL-Rewriting under HTTPS