igniteui-angular2

#Ignite UI components for Angular 2

Use the igniteui.angular2.js to taka advantage from the Ignite UI controls in Angular 2 applications. Work with the running samples here.

#Requirements

• jQuery v1.9.1 and later
• jQuery UI v1.9.0 and later
• AngularJS 2 v2.0 beta and later
• Ignite UI 15.2 and later

#Getting Started

Initializing controls

In an Angular 2 application, Ignite UI controls support markup initialization which is done by using custom tags.

Custom tags

Each control implements a custom tag component where the tag name is formed by splitting each capital letter in the control name with the - symbol.

Note: It is recommended to use closing tags (</ig-combo>) over the self-closing tags (<ig-combo/>), because the latter are known to make issues on some browsers (depending on the used document mode).

Examples:

Control Name	Tag
igCombo	<ig-combo>
igGrid	<ig-grid>
igDataChart	<ig-data-chart>
igDialog	<ig-dialog>
igDateEditor	<ig-date-editor>
igEditor	<ig-editor>
igMaskEditor	<ig-mask-editor>
igNumericEditor	<ig-numeric-editor>
igPercentEditor	<ig-percent-editor>
igTextEditor	<ig-text-editor>
igDatePicker	<ig-date-picker>
igTree	<ig-tree>
igMap	<ig-map>
igUpload	<ig-upload>
igVideoPlayer	<ig-video-player>

Configuring Control Options

There are two mandatory attributes that need to be set to an Ignite UI control custom tag: options - points to a property on the application component class containing the control's configuration. widgetId - the control requires an id to be assigned to it.

Example:

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `<ig-grid 
        [(options)]="gridOptions" 
        [(widgetId)]='id'></ig-grid>`,
    directives: [IgGridComponent]
})
export class AppComponent {
    private gridOptions: IgGrid;
    private id: string;
    private data: any;

    constructor() {
        this.data = Northwind.getData();
        this.id ='grid1';
        this.gridOptions = {
            dataSource: this.data,
            width: "100%",
            height: "400px",
            autoGenerateColumns: true
        };
    }
}

In this example options attribute points to gridOptions property on the application compoment class and widgetId points to the id property.

Configuring Top Level Control Options

All top level options are allowed to be set as attributes of an Ignite UI control custom tag. In this case options attribute is not mandatory, but it is allowed. And if both - options and top-level attributes are combined, top-level attributes will override options, when there are overlapping properties. Also changing top-level attribute will apply the change to the widget, only if the option is settable.

Example:

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `<ig-grid
        [widgetId]='id'
        [width]='w'
        [autoCommit]='true'
        [dataSource]='data'
        [height]='h'
        [autoGenerateColumns]='true'
        >
    </ig-grid>`,
    directives: [IgGridComponent]
})
export class AppComponent {
    private id: string;
    private data: any;
    private w: string;
    private h: string;
    private pKey: string;

    constructor() {
        this.data = Northwind.getData();
        this.id ='grid1';
        this.w = '100%';
        this.h = '400px';
        this.pKey = 'ProductID';
    }
}

Handling events

Binding to control events is achieved by assigning attributes where the name of the attribute is the name of the control's event name surrounded by parenthesis and the value is the name of the event handler.

Examples:

Event	Markup
igGrid.events.dataBind	<ig-grid (dataBind)="dataBindHandler">
igCombo.events.textChanged	<ig-combo (textChanged)="textChangedHandler">
igDateEditor.events.keypress	<ig-date-editor (keypress)="keypressHandler">

Example:

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `<ig-grid 
        [(options)]="gridOptions" 
        [(widgetId)]='id' 
        (dataBind)="dataBindHandler($event)"></ig-grid>`,
    directives: [IgGridComponent]
})
export class AppComponent {
    private gridOptions: IgGrid;
    private id: string;
    private data: any;
    private dataBindHandler: any;
    
    constructor() {
        this.data = Northwind.getData();
        this.id ='grid1';
        this.gridOptions = {
            dataSource: this.data,
            width: "100%",
            height: "400px",
            autoGenerateColumns: true
        };
    }
    
    dataBindHandler(event, ui) {
        // event handler code    
    }
}

Binding to igGrid* feature events is done in the control's configuration code.

Example:

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `<ig-grid 
        [(options)]="gridOptions" 
        [(widgetId)]='id'></ig-grid>`,
    directives: [IgGridComponent]
})
export class AppComponent {
    private gridOptions: IgGrid;
    private id: string;
    private data: any;

    constructor() {
        this.data = Northwind.getData();
        this.id ='grid1';
        this.gridOptions = {
            dataSource: this.data,
            width: "100%",
            height: "400px",
            autoGenerateColumns: true,
            features: [
                {
                    name: "Filtering",
                    dataFiltered: function (evt, ui) {
                        // event handler code
                    }
                    
                }
            ]
        };
    }
}

In this example igGridFiltering dataFiltered event is handled in the application component class.

Two-way Data Binding

The following controls currently support two-way data binding:

1. igGrid
2. igTreeGrid
3. igHierarchicalGrid
4. igCombo
5. igEditors
6. igTree

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##What is Ignite UI?

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