extjs phone home?

I just found a rather alarming thing in the extjs/adapter/ext/ext-base.js file:

Anybody know what that is all about?

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 17, 2008, 08:54 AM

Anybody know what that is all about?

Probably tracking which sites use it in the wild?

I just asked google.
You can read a lot about it here: http://www.google.com/search?q=extjs.com%2Fs.gif
Especially this thread: http://75.126.167.146/forum/showthread.php?t=7413

Basically the reason is that they need the image to have an absolute path. And there’s no way of knowing where the user will place the files included in the package. According to the above thread the image is included in the distribution of ExtJS and you’re encouraged to set the location of the image yourself.

/Kleist

Yeah, I have been beating my head trying to get a paging grid with search implemented, and finally took the time to go search for this. Got the search paging grid working too, finally. extjs is really tough to get into, but I can see the power of it. Of course, it would help if I could get my backend sql queries right the first time

Basically the reason is that they need the image to have an absolute path. And there’s no way of knowing where the user will place the files included in the package. According to the above thread the image is included in the distribution of ExtJS and you’re encouraged to set the location of the image yourself.

I am sure that the MODx distribution will have this set to a local file when the time comes. Good catch since this could be easily overlooked.

You’re supposed to set it to override that default in the beginning of your AJAX script:

It can be set relative, but in this case I decided to go for the overkill. Lovely little data grid with search and sortable columns.

Since we’re going to try a whack at getting MODx to Ext2 for the 097 release, I’ve not changed this yet. And I highly recommend never changing actual Ext files - it makes upgrading a nightmare.

Edit: Actually, I’m dumb. I already did that: line 56 of manager/templates/default/js/sections/layout/header.js

Anyway, yes. This will be working locally without reference to extjs.com in the releases.

Well, hopefully the difference isn’t so great that I’ve wasted all this time and aspirin learning how to get around in 1.1.1

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 18, 2008, 07:44 PM

Well, hopefully the difference isn’t so great that I’ve wasted all this time and aspirin learning how to get around in 1.1.1

I’ve found ext2 to be much more intuitive. There are also some great articles on it on the extjs.com site. It is also much faster, more flexible and better coded. It was really just a time-management decision on whether or not to switch.