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Hello: I've a problem with the text wrapping inside a label on Android. This code works fine in the v 3.0.2. ~~~ var labelDir = Ti.UI.createLabel({ top: '1%', left : '13%', right : '10%', height: '50%', color :...

How can i make my text in labels aligned at the top vertically because it seems like by default it is aligned middle. I saw there is a verticalAlign property but it was only for webmobile... Any help? thenks in advance :)

hi all i'm very new to tss i had done some coding to create a glossy buttons for my apps with reference to css3 glossy buttons but i got stuck how to add padding and shadows to my button plz help me out

How do I format or stylise a string? I want to make it bold, but not the entire string. Just certain segments in the string; "Operating in one form or another since <b>1898</b>", but this markup method doesn't seem to work although...

Hi, Is it possible to cross label ? (on android and iPhone). thanks

Hello everyone, I am testing the single picker and the multiple picker components through this code: ~~~ var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({ backgroundColor:"#FFFFFF", exitOnClose:true }); var resultat =...

Hi, in my project I'am using the font "TheSansBold". The ttf only contains glyphes for west europa (latin-1). To fixe it, I have modiefied the ttf with fonforge. Now I can use it for polish, hungarian or turkish texts. But. It worls only in...

Hello, this is my code. ~~~ var tableViewNot = Titanium.UI.createTableView({ data: [], backgroundColor:'transparent', maxRowHeight:'68dp', minRowHeight:'68dp', top:'80dp' }); function rellenaTablaProd(itemList){ dataNot = []; ...

I'm trying to emulate a border of 1px between some views and I'm using a label for that of 1px height with no contents and just a background color. The label however looks much thicker, at least 2 pixels thick instead of just 1 pixel,as you can see on the...

Hello I'm currently testing out the new ListView, which appears to work much smoother than the TableView in a lot of cases. However, as I was testing I noticed that putting labels into the ListView quickly gave a performance hit on iPhone when having ~200...

I'm using titanium 3.1 sdk. I'm trying to add labels ( with text / html is filled with utf8 encoded characters stored in sql lite database) on a scrollview [or] tableviewrow. When i check the output the text is not wrapped correctly. The right edge is...

Hi All, I have to use ellipsize property in android. I try with this on label : ~~~ ellipsize : true ~~~ but not working. Help me to short it out. Thanks in advance.

Hi, in my project I want to show danish texts with customized fonts. Here is the font -- it contains all needed types:  In the source code: ~~~ var titlelabel =...

I'm developing for blackberry and am using a very old sdk which is 1.7.0. The problem I'm facing now is that I have a label and two string thatI want to display. The second string will be a new line below the first. I've tried suing '\n' but it does;t...

I am using following Font Attributes but it is not making any effect to make it bold ~~~ font:{fontSize:24,fontFamily:'Lucida Grande',fontWeight:'bold'}, ~~~ I don't get what wrong I am doing here.

Hi, I want to put a long text in label. Its about 15 lines. So what is the procedure to add this text to label in multiple line. ~~~ var label1 = Titanium.UI.createLabel({ top:100, color:'black', text:"adfafds fdskjfk dsfjklsdjfkldsjfkl kdjf...

I'm trying to get the current height of a label. This label got the 'auto' height property when I create it. I need to get the new height after changing for a bigger font. The only property I can get is 'auto', there's no way I can get the height in...

Is there a way to embed a font (such as an OTF or EOT) in a resources folder and then use that font in labels and such? ----- SDK 1.7.2, OS 10.7.1, iOS 4+

There is many views as input can be touch, each one has a same backgroundImage, but the backgroundImage be loaded each times. How can i optimize? ~~~ // view <View id="redTable"> <Label class="boll red redbg"...

I have no idea what i'm doing wrong, perhaps it's that I'm trying to change it in the exports, but this works on other required views, just not this one? view - spinner.xml ~~~ <Alloy> <ImageView id="spinner"...

sdk: 3.0.0 GA os: mac os platform: android 4.0 quite simple, the text is too long in the label, i want to add ellipsize at the end of the text, but it doesn't work. the text is truncated but the ellipsize is not added. ~~~ var title =...

I want to display data 500 list entires in my app. What is the best solution for this purpose? How a entry looks like:  I try two ways: 1. TableView + TableViewRow + Label /...

I am using Titanium Alloy 3.0.2. I have a layout where the orientation of a few of the labels (these can be uneditable text fields) need to read from bottom to top. All other visual elements have standard orientation reading from left to right, so I am...

Hi, I am working on an app that provides a lot of descriptive fields for an item. However, over time more descriptive fields will be added or changed so i do not want to hardcode anything to display because I would have to be changing things all the...

See [my screencast](https://vimeo.com/63740196) for an example of what I mean. You see the problem about 20 seconds into the video. It seems to mostly happen when scrolling the tableview causes the selected row to go off screen. When you scroll to bring...

My boss wants to give the user an option to toggle between to app names. For example, let's say the default name is "Cool Kids App". My boss wants to give the user the option to change the display name of the app to "Chill Kids App". ...

Hi All, I was wondering what is the best way to underline a Label created by Titanium.UI.createLabel() Thanks, Ajay

I have a desktop application that is built with HTML code and what is happening is that all word inside inputs, labels, paragraphs have the last letter cut off. For example if I put the number "1", I almost can't see that is the number one,...

Hi people, I've this visual problem. The code I use is ~~~ row= Ti.UI.createTableViewRow(); view= Ti.UI.createView({layout:'horizontal'}); button= Ti.UI.createButton({image:'/iconos/info.png'}); label= Ti.UI.createLabel({text:<some...

This is going to sound a stupid question, but how do you add bullet points into the text element of a label? Thanks

 Why is this happening? This tableview section is created in a loop and the label that is causing...

Hi all, i have a tableview row that contain a label. The tableiewRow contains a rightImage property ( a custom arrow that tells the user to be redirected to another window). I need this: When the user clicks on the row, all the row background will be...

my webservice returns the value in html text as "<b>turn</b> to left, <b>move</b>straight" . Can i set this as the text of the label ??? will this work??? thanks

Hi, I need to underline a text in a label. The use case is a label saying « I accept the terms of use », « terms of use » being underlined to indicate that clicking will display the terms in an overlay window. Using <u></u> tags and the...

I got trouble to set custom fonts in Alloy project specially in iOS platform for any other font other than default font. Android is running without any modification by same code. Using: ####Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C3103), Titanium Studio build:...

I'm placing a label that has text and a border using top, left, width and height properties. On both iOS and Android, the border shows up in the correct spot with the correct dimensions. On iOS, the text inside the label looks correctly positioned....

Is it possible to apply ellipsize or ellipsis to a label on the iPhone?

Hi I have a question about how to style and output multiple several rows from local data. Here is my case. I have a datatable, where title is outputtet, when you click on it, it goes into that id, with all the info and data of that person. My question is,...

Hi, i want to hide labels while scrolling the scrollable view .... The views array of scrollable view contains scroll views, parent views(UI.View) inside scrollviews, imageviews(UI.ImageView) inside parent views and then another view(UI.View) inside parent...

Hi guys, I can't seem to find the problem in this piece of code which should work 100% fine, but it does not. So I want to change the text of a label *(label.setText())*, but it does not seem to be able to **read the string value of the...

Hello! Is it possible to get the same behaviour on Android as on iOS? I need a label to just render as much text as it can and at the end add '...''s if not everything is displayed. Now the Android label just cuts of the text and I get half a line at the...

Hi, I am working in Titanium mobile. MI want to put a label inside a label without giving it position. i.e. I have a word # in my label's text I want to replace that # symbol with that label dynamically. Is it possible. Any help ??? Thanks in advance.

hi, I tried to set the fontSize with sp unit in .tss like so: ~~~ font:{ fontSize: 17sp } ~~~ and: ~~~ font:{ fontSize: '17sp' } ~~~ but both don't work. What's the proper way to set this? thanks!!

I've got two timers running and updating labels with their respective counts.. if I have the two running only one label gets updated but the count still goes up on both timers. Is there anything I can do to make it so both labels keep updating or is that...

Hi at all, i have a problem in all the applications i am developing. If i have a tableview, i click one of the rows and then another page opens, for example for the infos of an object like a race or anything else. in that page there is a textfield and some...

I add a label to each TableViewRow. Now I want to read the text-value of these labels. How can I do this?

Hi every body, How to prevent label fire touchstart event Android? I set property : touchEnabled: false. But It's is not working. SDK: 3.0 Device: Nexus7

Hi, I am adding and removing labels from a imageView on the basis of their visibility ..... there visibility is stored in db with values 1(visibile), 0(invisble) .... The real question is if i have 5 labels and if i remove one of them from the middle...

Hi guys, is it in any way possible to fetch words from a single textfield from the database and push them to multiple separate labels? For instance, let's say I would enter these three words in to a single textfield in a database, separated with a...

I created custom tableviewrow with the lables, but I have a problem in displaying lables: when I try to express width property value as a percentage, none of them appear. This is a bug or something wrong? ~~~ var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({ layout :...