Walther, S: Windows 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Coalescing Notifications 85 Bypassing Notifications 87 Working with the WinJS.Binding.List object 88 Creating an Observable Collection of Observables 90 Understanding Declarative Data Binding 91 Declarative Data Binding and Observables 94 Capturing the Contents of an HTML Form 96 Declarative Data Binding and WinJS Controls 99 Declarative Data Binding and Binding Converters 101 Understanding Templates 105 Creating an Imperative Template 105 Creating a Declarative Template 108 Applying a Template with a Query Selector 109 Creating External Templates 111 Summary 112 4 Using WinJs Controls 113 Introduction to WinJS Controls 113 Creating a WinJS Control Declaratively 115 Creating Controls Imperatively 117 Setting Control Options 118 Retrieving Controls from an HTML Document 119 Using the Tooltip Control 120 Using the contentElement Property 121 Styling a Tooltip 121 Using the ToggleSwitch Control 122 Determining the State of a ToggleSwitch 123 Using the Rating Control 124 Customizing the Ratings 125 Submitting a Rating 125 Using the DatePicker Control 127 Formatting the Year, Month, and Date 128 Displaying Only Years, Months, or Days 131 Capturing the Selected Date 132 Using the TimePicker Control 133 Getting and Setting the Current Time 134 Formatting the Hour, Minute, and Period 136 Using the Hub Control 137 Creating Hubs and Hub Sections 138 Handling Hub Section Navigation 139 Using the WebView Control 139 Hosting a Page from the Internet with the WebView Control 140 Handling Navigation and Navigation Events 142 Capturing WebView Screenshots 145 Summary 147 5 Creating Forms 149 Using HTML5 Form Validation 149 Using the required Attribute 150 Using the pattern Attribute 150 Performing Custom Validation 151 Customizing the Validation Error Style 152 Resetting a Form 154 Using HTML5 Input Elements 155 Labeling Form Fields 157 Entering a Number 158 Entering a Value from a Range of Values 159 Entering Email Addresses, URLs, Telephone Numbers, and Search Terms 160 Entering a Value from a List of Values 162 Selecting Files 162 Creating a Rich Text Editor 164 Displaying Progress 165 Summary 167 6 Menus and Flyouts 169 Using the Flyout Control 169 Using the Menu Control 172 Using the AppBar Control 176 Creating a Simple App Bar 176 Using App Bar Commands 178 Showing Contextual Commands 181 Using the NavBar Control 184 Creating a Simple Nav Bar 184 Configuring App Settings 186 Creating About Page Settings 187 Creating Personal Settings 189 Displaying Windows Dialogs 192 Summary 195 7 Using the ItemContainer, Repeater, and FlipView Controls 197 Using the ItemContainer Control 197 Styling an ItemContainer 198 Interacting with an ItemContainer 200 Selecting an ItemContainer 202 Creating Drag-and-Drop Items 204 Using the Repeater Control 208 Using an External Template 210 Using a Nested Template 211 Using the Repeater with the ItemContainer 214 Using the FlipView Control 215 Displaying Page Numbers 219 Creating Custom FlipView Buttons 221 Summary 222 8 Using the ListView Control 223 Introduction to the ListView Control 224 Using Different ListView Layouts 228 Using Grid Layout 229 Using List Layout 231 Using Cell Spanning Layout 231 Invoking Items in a ListView Control 236 Selecting Items in a ListView Control 238 Sorting Items in a ListView Control 241 Filtering Items in a ListView Control 242 Grouping Items in a ListView Control 245 Switching Views with Semantic Zoom 248 Switching a ListView Template Dynamically 253 Using Drag and Drop 256 Reordering Items in a ListView 256 Dragging Items from ListViews 258 Summary 262 9 Creating Data Sources 263 Creating Custom Data Sources 263 Creating the Data Source Class 264 Creating a Data Adapter 264 Implementing the getCount() Method 265 Implementing the itemsFromIndex() Method 265 Implementing the insertAtEnd() Method 267 Implementing the remove() Method 267 Implementing the change() Method 268 Handling Errors 268 Implementing the setNotificationHandler() Method 269 Creating a File Data Source 270 Using the File Data Source 271 Creating a Web Service Data Source 276 Creating the Data Source 276 Creating the Web Service 278 Using the Web Service Data Source 280 Creating an IndexedDB Data Source 281 Overview of IndexedDB 282 Using the IndexedDB Data Source 286 Summary 293 10 Using Windows Azure Mobile Services 295 Creating a Mobile Service 295 Creating a Database Table 297 Installing the Mobile Services for WinJS Library 298 Performing Inserts, Updates, and Deletes 299 Connecting to the Remote Database Table 299 Inserting Database Data 299 Updating Database Data 300 Deleting Database Data 301 Performing Database Queries 301 Looking Up a Single Database Record 301 Retrieving a Set of Database Records 302 Performing Validation 304 Performing Custom Actions 306 Debugging Script Errors 308 Summary 309 11 App Events and States 311 App Events 311 Handling the Activated Event 312 Handling the Error Event 313 Deferring Events with Promises 314 Creating Custom Events 315 Suspending, Terminating, and Resuming an App 315 Detecting When an App Is Suspended and Terminated 316 Detecting the Previous Execution State 316 Testing Application State with Visual Studio 317 Storing State with Session State 318 Designing for Different Window Sizes 320 Setting the Minimum App Width 320 Using CSS Media Queries 321 Using the window resize Event 324 Scaling Content to Fit Different Screen Resolutions 326 Defining a Viewport 326 Using the ViewBox Control 329 Summary 332 12 Page Fragments and Navigation 333 Using the HtmlControl Control 333 Creating a Page Control 336 Creating Multi-Page Apps 340 Creating a Navigation App 340 Understanding the Navigation App default.html Page 341 Adding New Page Controls to a Navigation App 343 Navigating to Another Page 345 Understanding the Navigation API 346 Understanding the PageControlNavigator Control 347 Understanding Navigation State 347 Summary 351 13 Creating Share and Search Contracts 353 Supporting Sharing 354 Creating a Share Source 356 Creating a Share Target 360 Using the Search Charm 368 Declaring Your App as a Search Provider 369 Providing Search Suggestions 370 Handling Search Activation 372 Adding a Search Results Page 373 Using the SearchBox Control 376 Adding the SearchBox Control to a Page 377 Providing Search Suggestions 378 Displaying Search Results 379 Using the Windows Content Indexer 380 Understanding the Windows Content Indexer API 381 Creating an Indexer Helper 381 Using the Indexer Helper 382 Summary 385 14 Using the Live Connect API 387 Installing the Live SDK 388 Adding a Reference to the Live SDK 388 Registering Your App 389 Initializing the Live Connect SDK 391 Specifying Different Scopes 391 Authenticating a User 394 Logging a User into Live Connect 394 Creating Account Settings 396 Authentication and Windows Azure Mobile Services 401 Configuring Your Mobile Service 401 Setting Permissions for Your Mobile Service 402 Updating the Mobile Server Scripts 402 Logging Into Azure Mobile Services 404 Retrieving Basic User Information 406 Uploading and Downloading Files from SkyDrive 408 Listing SkyDrive Folders and Files 409 Downloading Files from SkyDrive 411 Uploading Files to SkyDrive 413 Summary 415 15 Graphics and Games 417 Overview of the Game 418 Creating the Game Tiles 419 Playing the Game Sounds 420 Creating the Game Canvas 421 Capturing User Interaction 424 Creating the Update Loop 425 Creating the Render Loop 427 Summary 429 16 Creating a Task List App 431 Overview of the App 432 Setting Up the App 433 Connecting to External Services 435 Optimistic Inserts, Updates, and Deletes 437 Adapting to Screen Changes 440 Creating a Custom Control 444 Using Text to Speech 446 Summary 448 Index 449