Hey Brad, if you do standalone OL & Ext you definitely have to code more yourself. GeoExt is the glue in between.
E.g. if you want a drop down of column names, GeoExt will provide you the building blocks (an AttributeStore). Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Brad King <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to get my head around what GeoExt is, compared to the > standalone OpenLayers and ExtJS offerings. I've only ever coded with the > Sencha GWT components and OpenLayers GWT as well so *real* JavaScript is > pretty new to me. Can someone please explain what GeoExt can do that makes it > easier ? better ? building map clients ? > > My task is to create mainly maps with WFS map layers, with ogc filters > dynamically created from a form for multiple layers. I need to be able to use > custom ogc filter functions we are writing in GeoServer as well. I'd like to > have dropdowns with layer names, field names, operators, spatial functions, > etc. Sort of like the filter dialog in the OpenJump WFS plug-in if you have > seen that, but more integrated and polished. > > Thanks, and is there a searchable archive for this list somewhere ? I didn't > see anything on Nabble. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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