Clearification regarding viewports

[akrillo]

Hey,

I still try to improve my app and I have some trouble to understand why there is a viewport.

Do I really need a viewport? I dont know why i can't just use an Component like an container and set his layout to 'fit'.

I would like to get rid of the viewport component. At the moment i have to use something like:

plugins: 'viewport',

or the direct creation:

var viewport = Ext.create( 'Ext.container.Viewport', {
 items: [ Ext.create( 'view.myBaseView') ],
 layout : 'fit'
});
 viewport.show();

Is there any other way to handle this "overhead"?

kind regards

[evant]

A layout governs how child components are laid out inside the container.

The viewport is there to always size to the browser window dimensions.