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I've been trying to add a background image to my navigation bar on my iPad app, but no luck so far. I know the API Reference Guide says it can only be done on the iPhone, but I assume such a property must be supported for the iPad as well?

I am creating an app for Android. I am trying to change the background color of the tab. But it is not working. Can Anyone tell me how to fix it. Here is the code for tab declaration. var tab1 = Titanium.UI.createTab({ icon:'Notepad2.gif', ...

I cannot get my app, built with Titanium, to show up in the MarketPlace on a device. I can find it via web portals to the MarketPlace, but never in a device or simulator. Scanning the QR code from the app listing on a web portal tells me the app is not...

Hi, I am using Titanium 1.2.2 with SDK Version 1.5.1. My Android Simulator SDK is 1.6 and on my device I have version 2.1 installed. So now whats going on: I need to react fast to a touch event in a WebView. Since 'onclick' triggers only after 500ms, I...

Hello, Lets say, I connect to a remote MYSQL server using my desktop application, Can other users see the details? - Shaun

While researching an issue with submitting my app to the App Store, I figured out why my icon was not appearing on the device. http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/106501/app-icon-appears-as-white-box I closed that ticket, but thought I would post...

In my ipad app I have a list of actions on the left that is just text. I'm trying to add an image to help make it look a little nicer, but when I do, it stretches across the whole view (and label). I tried creating an imageview and then adding that to...

Hi I used the website "http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://website.com" to share a URL. This is just a webview. The sharing works, but I don't know how to autoclose the webview after the user shared the link. Facebook tells me, this site...

Hey fellow developers, I've just wrote a small function that automatically calculates the proper region for the mapview to fit to, so both ends of a route are contained into the visible area of the mapview. I think people who get their directions from...

Hi there, I have 4 panels I would like to animate (just animates the width and position) however they run in the sequence of the code resulting in 4 different movements. Is there a way of animating the panels all at the same time? Many thanks

Titanium successfully built my iPad distribution and uploaded it into Xcode Organizer. When I try to Validate the app, I get the following errors: Icon specified in the Info.plist not found under the top level app wrapper: appicon.png Icon specified in...

Is there a way to fill an imageview area (in my case 75x75) with a remote image? I have a tableview of 50 rows. Each row has a thumbnail image on the left. The remote images load in great but they scale the longest side to 75px leaving the other side short...

I am working to move my iPhone apps, written in Objective-C, to appcelerator so I can easily write them for multiple environments. I understand this is a complete re-write. These apps currently use CoreData. I am new to appcelerator and I have tried...

My aim is to get a form such as name, email, subject and message in a text field to send to email.php (attached below) which will send off to my email. the problem is that the data from the phone wont make it to email.php as feed back is not shown in...

Hi When a project is created by using Titanium, it creates corresponding XCode project having same name and folders;Resources etc. Usually when we write code, we add assets in Resource folder and then refer them in code by just calling their names;(e.g:...

I am getting null value for `xhr.open('POST','http://www.inetwebdesign.com.au/email.php');` and `xhr.send(data);` and i dont know why or how to fix it **my first code was ** ~~~ // // // RSVP response via HTTP POST to php script on server // var...

i'm trying to pull data from a google calendar. however, regardless of how i try to parse the data, i'm getting errors in titanium. here are the two sets of code i've tried + their respective errors attempt 1: http://pastebin.com/zcYMfgri line 130 = var...

Just went through a real eye opener on tab groups, and I'm still not really understanding their fundamentals. For instance, in the code segment below (from the post here...

this page: [http://developer.appcelerator.com/apidoc/mobile/latest/Titanium.Filesystem.File-object](http://developer.appcelerator.com/apidoc/mobile/latest/Titanium.Filesystem.File-object) It should reference: File.getNativePath, but it currently calls it...

In my app.js, I call a splash screen imageview, and then wait for the user to click. This takes them to a function that has two tabs in a tab group, one for Guide and the other for About Us. The Guide part works great. However, when I click the About...

Hi. I've just installed Titanium for the first time, and I'm having problems getting the default mobile app to work. I followed the installation instructions and have installed Python, Git, Java JDK, Android SDK, and Titanium Developer onto `C:\Program...

I am working on my first app and everything was working a couple of days ago, then I did not work on it for a few days. now I am back to it but I've run into some strange behavior. As I am editing the code and launching on titanium to test the app is not...

Could someone please shed some light on why this code only pulls the data from the first field and not the second field? The MySQL db has one table with two fields called 'cat_name' and 'colour_name'. Only the cat_name field data is being returned. Not...

Hi, I am attempting to use the latest Android SDK: Android SDK Tools, revision 9 Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 2 Documentation for Android'Honeycomb' Preview SDK, revisioon 1 SDK Platform Android 2.3.1, API 9, revision 2 In edit profile...

Hi all, What I am trying to do is have a click event on a imageview inside a scrollview. When the item is clicked I want to do something, but the click event is not being fired. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! ~~~ var win = Ti.UI.currentWindow; var...

I need to implement a [segmented control](http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/UIElementGuidelines/UIElementGuidelines.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH13-SW27) on both iOS & android....

Suddenly, the Developer (immediately after booting) is displaying the error messages below. Why did this start all of a sudden? (Environment: MAC OSX Snow Leopard, 8GB Memory, Titanium Developer 1.2.2. Apple IOS4 SDK.) [INFO] Compiling...

Hello, I'm having a rough time with facebook in my module and was hoping someone could help out. Here are the two things that i'm seeing happening: * Any time the app is closed (like if you force quit it our the multitask manager kills it) it logs the...

Okay, Mobile SDK 1.5.1, Ti Dev 1.2.2, Mac OSX, building for iPhone 3GS 4.2.1. Runs fine on sim, fine on android, crashes on iPhone. Simple to recreate ~~~ var contactList = Ti.Contacts.getAllPeople(); (iterating.. using c as iterator, there is at...

This is only happening when install the app on a device using Run on Device. The icon on the iPad appears as a white box. I've tried deleting the build directory, the app in iTunes, and off the iPad with no success. The icon does appear in the...

I am programming an App on the iPhone, with Titanium Developer 1.2.2. My app.js simply calls an image (splash screen), then on a click will go to the main win: ~~~ Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#000'); var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({ title:...

Hi all, I have an app that is trying to pull data from a local database. I've connected to the database and can pull data when the SQL query is based on the primary key but I've been trying to run the same query on a different integer column and it...

I have custom image maps I would like to show in front of Google image maps if the user is on the correct geographic location. There is a way to show my own images inside the map view? The desired platform is iPad.

I suppose it's an easy question for good developers... I created a label containing a big text needing a scroll view. I added the label to scroll view but, when I change orientation (iPhone simulator) the content doesn't resize to the new orientation...

we're currently using appcelerator to develop a number of applications for my company. We're very impressed with everything. A recent requirement is the need to capture digital signatures which titanium currently can't do. There is a paint module in the...

Running the code below on the Android emulator I get an error: "Cannot read property 'longitude' from null" I have tried using "geo fix -123.132174 49.287993" via telnet and sending coordinates to the emulator using ddms and still get...

Hello, perhaps a stupid question but this is bothering me since a few months. Whenever i use a custom back button for the navbar, the button flashes (fades in) on window focus. Even when i navigate back to a window, the leftbutton flashes shortly. These...

I'm adding Titanium support for persistencejs (https://github.com/zefhemel/persistencejs), which is a really nice ORM for javascript. I really feel that this is the right ORM framework for Titanium apps, and I'm planning to do a little write up/tutorial...

Hi, When I try to load the kitchen sink in the Android emulator I'm getting the following message repeated twice: ================ Required jarsigner not found. Required javac not found. Required java not found. One or more required fields not found -...

Hi My app name is ,say,"Good App". Now Titanium is making it's app as Good App.app. Now I want it to be as GoodApp.app but display name should remain as "Good App". How can I achieve both things? Thanks

I have a little app I'm just beginning to work on that's mostly an informational one. The first thing it does is bring up an imageview for the splash screen, waits for a click, then loads the first screen. The first screen has two tabs (Guide, About Us)....

Hello sir, here i need to after capture the image , the captured image is send to the webserver and added to the database.

I am trying to create an ImageView dynamically. When I create a single ImageView it works just fine. I can also create a dynamic ImageView okay, but not with the ability to drag and drop it. When I place the "olt" arguments on to the ImageView...

Right now, Titanium.Media.openPhotoGallery shows the user all of his photos and videos. I want it to only show his photos. Any way to make this happen?

In my iPad app, I have the master on the left with some links, and a details on the right. I'm trying to make it to where I click one of the items on the left and it opens on the detail. Here is my code so...

I am trying to test just the operational side of things and I get this error when I launch the empty test app thing: [ERROR] Error locating JDK: set $JAVA_HOME or put javac and jarsigner on your $PATH I know for a fact that javac and jarsigner are both...

Hello, I'have tried just this little code: ~~~ var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient(); ~~~ and this one too: ~~~ var xhr = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient(); ~~~ but I allways have this error: "Cannot call method or undefined" Somebody...

I am trying to send a form to an email address. titanium works fine ~~~ [INFO] Response_JASON: {"name":"bob","email":"Carahdose@gmail.com","subject":"this is the...

Using 1.5.1, with iOS 4.2. I cannot for the life of me get a button to consistently populate the titleControl of windows as I move through them with the navgroup. I've tried everything, from passing the button to the new window, to setting it before the...

So I'm trying to code a clock into a tab on my app, however I can only get it to update on iOS but not Android (1.6 and 2.3.1). Here's the (truncated) code I'm using in my app.js file: ~~~ function kiTime () { //Get current date and time var...