Extjs – vertical header in grid and locked columns

A while ago I wrote an article where I described how to create a plugin, which can flip header of Ext.panel.Grid vertically. I’ve been using this plugin for a couple of months in a company I work for, however in the last week it turned out that this extension does not work for grid with locked columns. After digging into Extjs source code I found out that when You use locked columns, the grid is created as a combination of two grids: normalGrid and lockedGrid. Therefore it is necessary to apply vertical-header plugin to these two grids separately. In order to do that, I improved this extension to detect if grid has locked columns or not. The main change is in init function which now looks that way

In the first step I check if columns are locked. The method for do that is pretty straightforward

Afterward I do create two instances of vertical-header plugin and initialize them with appropriate partial grid (lockedGrid or normalGrid). Entire code listing is presented below

vertical header
Source code for this post can be found here

Extjs – vertical header in grid and locked columns

Generating string consisting of the same character

Recently I’ve been asked by friend of mine, how to generate string consisting of 50 commas. I came up with these three code snippets:

Although all of these lines produce appropriate outcome, it’s seemed to me that there is some simpler way to accomplish this task. After a little bit of searching, it turned out, that it is possible to generate string consisting of same characters using one of string’s constructors

Generating string consisting of the same character