Sencha touch 2 list inside a panel

Question

Have a pretty common task to do where I need a search form above a list to display the results, the problem is that the list is not showing the results, the store and the proxy work correctly because when I use firebug to locate the list items the list always have height of 0px.

I have already searched and the common ways to workaround this is to use a fit layout, but using that on the parent panel makes all look small as if the width used was 10px.

I cant set a fixed height because I want the list to fill the remaining space, and neither the flex option cause that stretches the search form when I want that to use the default size of the buttons and input fields.

Here is the config Im using on the view

Ext.define('MyApp.view.search.Search', {
extend:'Ext.navigation.View',
xtype: 'search_view',
config:{
    items:[
        {
            fullscreen:true,
            scroll:false,
            xtype:'panel',
            title:'Search',
            items:[
                {
                    xtype:'searchfield',
                    name:'search',
                    label:'Search',
                },
                {
                    xtype:'container',
                    layout:'hbox',
                    width:'100%',
                    margin:'3 0 0 0',
                    defaults:{
                        flex:1
                    },
                    items:[
                        {
                            xtype:'selectfield',
                            options:[
                                {text:'Option 1', value:'opt1'},
                                {text:'Option 2', value:'opt2'}
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            xtype:'button',
                            text:'Search',
                            action:'search'
                        }
                    ]   
                },
                {
                    xtype:'list',
                    itemTpl:['{title}'],
                    onItemDisclosure:true,
                    plugins:[
                        { xclass: 'Ext.plugin.ListPaging' }
                    ]
                }

            ]
        },
    ],      
}
});

This image describes what Im trying to achieve, I took this screenshot by setting manually a height to the list container, as you can see it works the problem is that the list height doesn't fill the space below the form by default.

goal

itemTpl:['{title}'], ?.. why are you providing itemTpl an array — Saurabh Gokhale
it can be an array according to the docs itemTpl : String/String[]/Ext.XTemplate when you have a multiline template makes it easier to edit. — Aldo Reyes
What exactly are your trying to achieve through this code? Your code o/p also seems very much strange — Saurabh Gokhale
I'v added an image to the question to better describe it, what part of the code seems strange to you, I've followed the examples on sencha docs as to how to define all this stuff. Thanks! — Aldo Reyes
Your entire component structure seems odd. Any specific reason for this kind of structuring? — Saurabh Gokhale

Aldo Reyes Aldo Reyes · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-29T17:48:20

This is what I ended up doing to solve this, it's more of a workaround since I had to change the layout to only have the list in it, and use toolbars for the search options, this way the toolbar controls only use the minimum height they need to draw themselves correctly.

Ext.define('MyApp.view.search.Search', {
extend:'Ext.Container',
xtype: 'search_view',
config:{
    fullscreen:true,
    layout:'card'
    items:[
        {
            xtype:'toolbar',
            docked:'top',
            items:[
                {
                    xtype:'searchfield',
                    name:'search',
                    flex:6
                },
                {
                    xtype:'button',
                    action:'search',
                    iconCls:'search',
                    iconMask:true,
                    ui:'simple',
                    flex:1
                }
                    ]
        },
        {
            xtype:'toolbar',
            docked:'top',
            items:[
                {
                    xtype:'selectfield',
                    flex:1,
                    options:[
                        {text:'Option 1', value:'opt1'},
                        {text:'Option 2', value:'opt2'}
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },
        {
             xtype:'list',
             itemTpl:['{title}'],
             onItemDisclosure:true,
             plugins:[
                 { xclass: 'Ext.plugin.ListPaging' }
             ]

        },
        ],      
    }
});

As you can see I have two toolbars docked at the top, and the list filling the whole layout. Here is a screenshot of how it looks now.

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Thanks for your time.

Sencha touch 2 list inside a panel

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