Instant Wijmo Widgets How-to

By Tochi Eke-Okoro

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks.A recipe-based instant tutorial, showing app development with Knockout and Wijmo, and covering major widgets and themes. This book aims at equipping the reader with the necessary tools that Wijmo and Knockout JS provide for easing and speeding up development. It addresses the needs of everyone in the UI development space, both experienced and newbies. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and will need to be comfortable using jQuery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781782161875

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Instant Wijmo Widgets How-to

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Preface

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1. Instant Wijmo Widgets How-to

Bar chart (Simple)

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more...

Changing the a ppearance of our wijbarchart object

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Column bar chart (Simple)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Stacked bar chart (Simple)

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Animation and live data (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Live data

Bubble chart (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

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Calendar (Intermediate)

How to do it…

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Grids (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

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Data source (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

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Using Wijmo with KnockoutJS (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

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ThemeRoller (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more...

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Instant Wijmo Widgets How-to

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Credits

Author

Tochi Eke-Okoro

Reviewer

Joe Zimmerman

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Commissioning Editor

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About the Author

Tochi Eke-Okoro is currently the Tech Lead of Front End Engineering at Joor Inc. He has worked with billion-dollar companies and startups as both a backend and frontend developer. He enjoys fiddling with Object Oriented JavaScript, hacking jQuery plugins, Ajax, JSON, PHP scripting, Terminal, and C++. He also enjoys playing mission-based video and sport games, chess, and manga animations. He lives in Newark, New Jersey, with his beautiful wife and son.

I wish to dedicate this book to my loving wife, Obioma, for her ceaseless support and encouragement through the writing of this book. My regards to my wonderful parents, who brought me up the right way, and to my family and friends.

About the Reviewer

Joe Zimmerman is a 25-year-old web developer who specializes in the frontend and is nearly obsessed with JavaScript, which he regularly blogs about on http://www.joezimjs.com. He has also written for Adobe Developer Connection (http://www.adobe.com/devnet.html), Smashing Magazine (http://www.smashingmagazine.com), and Nettuts+ (http://net.tutsplus.com). Some of his articles have also been featured in magazines such as Hacker Monthly and Appliness.

He currently works as a web developer for Kaplan University’s School of Professional and Continuing Education. As of right now, his core responsibility is maintaining the Schweser website.

I’m a devoted Christian and God has blessed me with a wife and two wonderful little boys (so far). I’d like to say thanks to those guys for having patience with me while I’m working on my blog and reviewing books.

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