Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Ext File Tree Widget
Jozef Sakalos has created a File Tree widget for Ext that features:
- Ajax load and display of nodes
- File type icons
- File upload
- Folder create
- File or folder delete
- File or folder rename
- File or folder move by drag & drop
- On demand folder reload
4.7 rating from 116 votes
It looks like the tree component from Telerik.
anyway, anybody tried it b4? Is it heavy load?
I have tried to minimize server round trips. All operations except file upload require one round trip even in the case of a failure. Failures are handled w/o server access by returning the tree to the state before the failed operation. To keep the client side tree in sync with underlying server filesystem the operations (rename, move, …) are sent to server immediately. The request can be some hundred bytes, success response is several bytes, failure response is cca error message size and expanding tree can be some kilobytes depending on number of nodes and length of their names. Of course, all plus overhead of request itself.
Just FYI: this component has no connection to Telerik. I haven’t even seen their tree. I’ll look now. Thanks for tip.
I wondered how you manage the upload. I’ve not experienced a reload of the page, tree stays expanded. I know that uploading is possible using iframes or Flash, but I’ve found nothing there.
Uploads are very interesting for me, because I’ve developed an application which can be used with complete AJAX support with Ext. The only thing I don’t have now is a remote upload system.
I’d prefer to discuss technical things in the FileTree forum thread as maybe not all ajaxian.com readers are interested in technical details.
Just brief answer: I use Ext form and Ext file upload infrastructure.
OK dude, but where is the code…
Saki’s extensions for Ext are really good. I hope Jack extends an offer to him & makes him a full time Ext employee. Good work!
Source code is not final yet, there is a couple of more things to be done, thus, I’ve not released it yet. Gimme a couple of days…
I’m a big Ext.js fan and this is great stuff… just asked Jack if he plans to integrate this into 2.0!
Really cool, I like it. Go ahead, and good luck
This is by far the best tree widget I have ever seen, and as stated above the file upload behavior is great. It looks fantastic.
Very great job!
Very clean !
Very JavaScript !
just made the page in fav and waiting for other version ;)
one of the best JS widget ive seen
Does it work in Vista/IE7.0?
Yes. I’m running Vista/ie7. Works like a wonder.