Tag Archives: GrailsUI

Part 1 of GrailsUI Screencast series: The Basics

I have created the first part of a series of screencasts for GrailsUI. This screencast goes over the basics of installation and setup of GrailsUI, as well as describing and implementing the expandablePanel, accordion, and tabView components.

Download (40.4 MB, 14:06)
alternative download for iPod & Apple TV (30.2 MB, 14:06)

Music is “Oblivion” by Mastodon.


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How to customize the display of the GrailsUI Datepicker

I recently needed to customize the datepicker to only allow selections on specific dates. GrailsUI and YUI make customizing the display of dates in the datepicker super easy. One of the things I love most about YUI is the rich set of examples and the rich API docs for all of the [...]


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360 Degrees of Form Processing with Grails and GrailsUI Modal Dialogs

Daniel Honig is an independent architect/developer/consultant living in New York City. Daniel is a contributor to GrailsUI and is writing this post as a guest for the benefit of GrailsUI users.
So recently I was reviewing some work that was done for us by a few developers of our team and discovered that we had some very ugly code that used an iframe inside of a gui dialog for a form submission. This resulted in the dialog appearing with scroll bars and other undesirable behavior.
Why was it that they had chosen to use an iframe instead of  just  using [...]


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Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: Charts

Here is a little chart teaser while I’m at it :)
Line Chart

Bar Chart

Column Chart

Pie Chart

This is the third of several installments on new features that will be a part of Grails-UI 1.1. I’m still working on it, and I’m not sure when the release date will be, but if you’d like to try it [...]


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Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: DataTable Inline Cell Editing

One of the most requested features for Grails-UI was inline cell editing for the dataTable component. In order to make this work, you’ll need to have a URL to send the change request. Each row can have its own editor, which can have its own URL for change requests. In this example, [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: