Tag Archives: plugin

Growler Grails Plugin

By Matthew Taylor | April 24, 2009

I’m working on a Grails plugin called Growler, which provides Growl-like notifications within a webpage using jquery, jquery-ui, and the jGrowl jquery plugin.
It is still in the alpha release at the moment, and there are plenty of things that need work, but has been fun and easy so far using jquery usefully. I hope [...]


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360 Degrees of Form Processing with Grails and GrailsUI Modal Dialogs

By dhonig | February 20, 2009

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

By Matthew Taylor | January 29, 2009

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

By Matthew Taylor | January 29, 2009

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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Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: Menus

By Matthew Taylor | January 29, 2009

To make a menubar like this:

You’ll need to include a ‘menu’ component in your gui:resources tag, then try this markup:

My default, menubars will render to the document body, but you can provide an optional renderTo attribute and have it render to any other container. I think it would be a cool idea to combine [...]


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