Downloading the DHTMLX library>

Now, we are going to download the DHTMLX library from their website and select which files will be used.

Open up your favorite web browser and navigate to www.dhtmlx.com. Here you will see a Download link in the menu. Click on the link. You should now see a page that looks like the following screenshot:

We want to download the entire library of components. DHTMLX calls this the Suite. Locate the Download link on the page for the Standard Edition of the Suite and click on the link. This will begin the download of a ZIP file. Download it to a location other than the application directory so that we can extract and choose which files we will use.

Open the extracted folder in your file manager to view its contents. You will see that it contains many folders, a license file, a readme file, an index.html file, and several more ZIP files.

The folders you see contain the individual components, which allow the individual use for each component.

The ZIP files contain the entire library of components in a compressed format in different skins.

The index.html file, when opened, provides the documentation for the downloaded version of DHTMLX. The DHTMLX documentation is broken down into two sections, documentation and samples, with details on each component. DHTMLX also provides the most up-to-date version of documentation on the website, but having a local copy is pretty handy when working offline, or if you have a slow network connection.

Next, we will extract the compressed version of the entire library to the application directory. Locate the ZIP file named dhtmlx_std_full.zip. This contains the actual DHTMLX files which we will use to build the application. Extract the contents of the dhtmlx_std_full.zip file to the dhtmlx folder in the application directory.

Once those have been extracted, we will start creating our application files.