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Hi everyone, thought I'd share this (I did a quick search on here, and didn't find a reference, so hopefully this isn't old news to everyone!): Check out www.diawi.com. It only works for iOS 4.2+ but this is _way_ more convenient than emailing builds...

Hi, I am following the steps mentioned in the custom module document http://assets.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/Module_Developers_Guide_iOS.pdf as it is to create my first test module. When I am trying to import the test module to the javascript...

In KS, the large file example was very helpful. ~~~ largeFile.addEventListener('click', function() { ind.value = 0; c = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient(); c.setTimeout(10000); c.onload = function(e) { Ti.API.info("ONLOAD =...

Hello, i am writing an app where i have to split large texts with paragraphs into labels that fit onto one screen. With paging you read the text, not with vertically scrolling. As I do not know how much text I can put on one screen, I put each paragraph...

I have 3 installations of XCode on my machine. XCode 1.2.2, 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 with their respectives SDKs (3.1.3, 4.1 and 4.2). When trying to run my app on Emulator I'm getting this: ~~~ [ERROR] Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File...

I don't see a way to export analytics details. I'm bidding on a mobile app for corporate/private distribution. They want stats on usage, version, etc. I can gather that info with Ti.Analytics but then I need to get the data back out in a convenient form.

Hi all, I hope I can get help this time. Now I am trying to develop an application which stores some values in table. I created database and table using firefox add-on SQLite Manager. But I can not add or select any data. What is missing in...

I am trying with Titanium SDK 1.5 and SDK 2.2 it is not running Sometimes it give me database error or something Could anyone help please? Thanks

Hello, I would like to open the contacts picker Titanium.Contacts.showContacts in a specific window (i.e: master window in an Ipad splitview) . Is this possible?

Using getCurrentPosition method, im getting "no providers are available" error. Any toughts??? Im testing my app on my device (because its faster) Thanks in advance.

We have a number of buttons, defined like this: ~~~ var i = <some sort of ID> var button = Titanium.UI.createButton( { text : 'X', data : i }); ~~~ In the click event listener for this button, how do we get the value of the 'data' parameter? We...

Hi, I follow the "Titanium Android Module Developer Guide", to create my own module. All the point seems to be good but when i launch my application the following runtime error appear: ~~~ Wrapped...

Hello, after i added the 6th Tab to my app i received the "more" Tab. First everything seems to work like expected. As soon i select one of the Tabs in the "More" Table View and navigate back, by clicking the "more" Tab, the...

Hello, I want to make something like this but i can't figure out the best way to do it.. I have six images wich is fullscreen on the ipad, when i click a button i want to animate to the next image, with a nice opacity tween between them. when i click it...

~~~[INFO] One moment, building ... [INFO] Titanium SDK version: 1.6.0 [INFO] iPhone Device family: iphone [INFO] iPhone SDK version: 4.2 [ERROR] Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Application...

I m trying following code. But it does not work for me. When i run my application it crash. Here is my code var backup_db = Titanium.Database.open('db1'); var dir =...

I have a mobile with android 1.5 and i'm trying to compile theh hello world sample for this, but i can't install the aplication because the adb -d logcat says: "the aplication need android version 4" in the xml line 7. I have try to change the...

Hi, Before christmas I released my first iPhone app built using appcelerator. I will be giving it away for free for a couple of days so get it for free while you can. http://www.theweatherapp.com/ http://itunes.apple.com/app/theweatherapp/id406014660?mt=8

Dear All, We have developed one project using titanium mobile for android and iphone. Now we want to implement css in this project for the part of enhancement but I am unable to find any related example of implementing css. Can you please suggest some...

Working with MAC OS X 10.5, Titanium Developer 1.2.2, Titanium 1.5.1 SDK and iphone SDK 4.1 trying to create a button with the following: `var picSel = Titanium.UI.createButton({top:20,width:200,height:40, title:'Select Image'});` Which results in an...

i am unable to display the background image even if i give like win.backgroundImage='../android/Default.png'; and win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({ url:'../view/mainMenu.js', title:'Home', fullscreen:...

I haven't seen anything here or on twitter, but is anyone else not having analytics data show up recently? I have a new app that's been in the store for a few days, has numerous downloads, has analytics turned on - but only get: "We haven’t...

I am still learning, and finding appcelerator to be a pretty good and robust platform. I have run into one issue so far... how can you pass a variable to a row like so: if( f.exists() ) { var hascheck = 'hasCheck:true'; } var data =...

I'm trying to pass some of my row data to a new window, pretty much like a mash-up of the KS custom_properties.js and KS twitter examples. The problem I am having is that instead of passing the data from the row selected, I am passing the data from the...

Hi, I'd like to know if it is possible to run a Mac OSX desktop application without the need for an Icon in the Dock. It seems that even when I hide the window with the <visible>false</visible> tag the Application Icon still shows. I would...

Just to double check if the "canScale" property on imageView can be used in the iPhone? IN the documentation it says it is only for Android.

I am looking at the KS example for contacts on ANDROID. It brings up a picker, but does not display the phone numbers. I am looking at...

A friend of mine doing ANDROID stuff, is debugging on his ANDROID phone. It takes a really long to get the emulator to start on my MBP, but I can get the apps installed on my device pretty quick. I pulled some docs that may...

This question is two fold: 1) how do you get the ID for a contact to use the get contactbyID api call? The person object does not seem to have an ID field, and if you try to iterate over its properties (for p in person) to find any undocumented...

i load a local json file. if it contain a german umlaut (äöü) it give a error. `[ERROR] Script Error = Result of expression 'listArray' [null] is not an object.` the json file is written by hand. my solution is convert the special character in...

I have been using Titanium for quite some time now and there is one feature I would like to add which is a WYSIWYG editor. But unfortunately it is not possible to do it using TextArea as it does not allow any formatting. One of the ways I am planning to...

I cannot figure this out for the life of me. In the kitchen sink, it appears to work. When I try it, it doesn't work. Here is my code <a href="http://pastie.org/1427168">http://pastie.org/1427168</a>

I just installed Titanium and downloaded the KitchenSink, I haven't set up anything for Android yet (and don't plan to in the near future). When I try to run the iPhone Emulator I get this message on build: [INFO] One moment, building ... [INFO] Performing...

What is the least processor-intensive graphic image format that I should use for images, primarily for icons - especially if many icons are going to be shown/drawn within a view at once? PNG8? PNG32? JPEG? Any other recommended/suggested, especially for...

Hi, I've posted another tutorial here: [http://bit.ly/titaniumdbtutorial2](http://bit.ly/titaniumdbtutorial2) It's about keeping mobile databases in sync with the web site (master) database. Cheers, Todd

OK so I've been looking through the KitchenSink example code (1.5.1) - and I cannot figure out how Titanium knows to put base_ui.js as the url for win1. I cannot find any reference for the app to use base_ui.js, anywhere! Yes I can see the other win...

In this example, rightImage is ignored: ~~~ var data = {id:1, title:'foo', rightImage:'icon.png'}; var tableView = Ti.UI.createTableView({data:data}); ~~~ In this example, rightImage works just fine: ~~~ var data = {id:1, title:'foo',...

Hi i followed the documentation and successfully installed titanium , when i try to execute kitshensink demo app: i got the following TRace: http://pastie.org/1426657 i'm running a ubuntu 10.10 and thanks

I am trying to find any file that starts with 'temp'. ~~~ var fileexists = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory,'temp*'); Titanium.API.info('EXISTS: '+fileexists.exists()); ~~~ But this doesn't seem to work, any ideas?

The Facebook login window seems to mess with the detection of shake gestures in iOS: Add the following lines to kitchensink's "facebook_login_logout.js": ~~~ Ti.Gesture.addEventListener('shake',function(e) { Ti.API.info('shake gesture...

New to Titanium, but I searched thru the forums and it wasn't clear what the problem is. I just used the twitter.js example from the kitchen sink and added count=100 to the query, and the table crashes every time I scroll down. Noted on another post...

Hi! I'm struggeling with one important issue: The name of my application should be language-dependent. In German it should be "Küche", in English "Kitchen" (maybe there will also be a Spanish version). Is it possible to...

Saw a recent commit to github... https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/commit/29015eeb2dc8aa2bb8a1187b700d34ba6426cedd What exactly does this mean? Seems like a big deal if you ask me...

Hi if i pay de subscription can i access to the New Beta for Blackberry ?

When I try to access the `Titanium.Network.online` property in the Android emulator, I get the following error: Type Error : Cannot read property "online" from undefined This also happens when I try to access other properties in the...

Hi! My app use several Local Notification to remember times. I would like to add the user to view and delete the Notifications. For Now; with each notification add; I create a DB entry with the text; the description etc. But how can I link the...

Hello everyone, I've recently begun having a very annoying problem. I'm calling the camera with Ti.Media.showCamera(...) from inside a heavyweight window but when I take the picture, the callback funtion doesn't get called. I know this has been posted...

I am using the clearButtonMode on Textfields, but have a requirement to replace the 'X' image to a new image provided to me. So far I have been unsuccessful in finding a way to do this in the docs, KitchenSink, and in the Q&A. How can the clear...

Hey there. I have service that uses basic auth to log in a user. I have it working great. After the users enters there u/p it remembers it and sends xhr.setRequestHeader with basic auth data to the server. But if the users changes there u/p the subsequent...

Hello! I've been trying to work with Titanium for a couple days now but can't seem to get it working. (http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/96051/unable-to-run-apps-on-iphoneandroid-emulators) Was wondering if there is any tutorial/guide on how to...