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Hi there, I have created a tableview, and then when a row is clicked it opens up a modal window. This all works perfectly and as it should. But, I am having trouble sending data to the modal window, can this be done? I want to send the date that is...

So, I am working on a project where I use a modal window (MODAL_PRESENTATION_FORMSHEET) on the iPad in which the user can see the settings for the app. The problem is that when they first enter a textfield and the keyboard shows up, running...

Hi everyone, Have anyone had a problem where the `blur()` function was removing focus from the textField but wasn't hiding the keyboard? I'm running on iPad (SDK 2.1.4, a little old, I know, but that's another topic) and noticed this happens on a modal...

Hi My question is what i though bug in titanium appcelerator.The activity indicator works very fine without making a modal window in titanium but it does not react properly when the window is modal.Have anybody seen this problem using titanium with...

Hi all- I wanted to see if others have revisited this topic over the past 3 years, and have alternate solutions (much of how is in kitchen sink, and most applications that create modal popups that are smaller than an iPad screen). I am looking to open a...

I need to force a user to login/register when firing an app in ALLOY. Sorry a newbie here and I am sure this is really easy...but after 20 hour coding session (and getting other stuff to work) this one has me stumped.

Hello everyone, my app needs this: open a fullscreen modal window, a login form, when the user press a button the window is closed (disappears on the bottom) and a new window is already opened behind while the modal one is being closed. Instagram do...

HI! I have 3 views. A present B modally, then B present C modally. when user selects item on C i want to dismiss both C & B and return to A. in C i implement so it will call ~~~ window.close() ~~~ and post notification to B when selection is made. B...

I'm following the Window (stand alone) example in trying to create a modal popup (Open animation fun on kitchen sink). The example button do not inherit the transparency but when I try to use an image it does. I've tried setting the opacity to 1.0 just for...

I am opening a modal window to have the user enter some text into a textField then on submit I am passing that text to another page to display a list filtered by the text just passed. This all works great the problem I am having is it is opening the page...

In the image example for Modal windows ([here](http://img.skitch.com/20100406-bqb3f8pb6e4ger7wkcdcw5mbar.png), [Window API Reference](http://developer.appcelerator.com/apidoc/mobile/latest/Titanium.UI.Window-object)) The modal window is shown smaller than...

Does anyone faced or know a solution for that problem: CONTEXT - A Window containing a TableView. - This Window is opened as modal - $.window.listener('open') populate the TableView with some Titanium.App.Properties() - No bug, No exception.. All Run...

Hello folks, Yesterday I'm able to create my own pop-up window.. and as what i promised with Sir. Trevor (a.k.a thewarpedcoder) i'll share this code to you :).. In this pop-up window i use 3 objects.. The window (container of 2 views) -createWindow 1st...

I have 2 modal windows in a titanium iOS app. win1 is open. I want to close it, then when that is finished animating, open modal win2. so pseudo code of what i want would be: `win1.addEventListener('onclosecomplete', function(e) { ...

Hello, I'm new in Titanium Studio and I want to do a DatePicker in a modal display when we click in a TextField element. I saw exactly what I want with jQuery mobile : [Mobiscroll](http://demo.mobiscroll.com/#display=modal&theme=sense-ui) Is it...

It seems that the close event is never fired on a window with a "partial curl". Hitting the curl closes in fact the window, but the "close" event is never listened (changing the modal transition and adding a real "close"...

I would like to open the modal of emailDialog inside the TableView. Right now I it opens a new window, since I open mail.js (which contains emailDialog). It works, but I don't like this new window. I prefer to see the modal right away. Now I have been...

When I open a modal window in Android 4.1, the background window doesn't get blurred and dimmed so it just looks like I have two windows on top of each other. Any solution to this?

i have a situation in an app where a user has a prev/next to display windows - and this could be 1 or 50 views either way - since i dont want the prev/next in new nav window (a user could have to use "back" a number of times) i thought about...

I've been developing a big iOS application so I cannot post all source code. Each window, I have 3 buttons combined in a View and set this View as window title by using setTitleControl (they look like Facebook mobile app) but they are not show at every...

I want to make a popup window like the following pic:  But when I set modal property to true, the created window always fully cover other...

i have a modal window that im adding a mapview to - i'm now trying to add a toolbar to that modal so i can show the sat type, zoom etc this is the normal code i'm using elsewhere in a normal window containing a...

No matter what I try, I can't preserve the top navbar so users can go back. I'm new to windows and modal and can't get it to not load over the entire page and navbar. ~~~ // create main day window var dayWindow =...

I need a modal window like as offering Appcelerator with Facebook Login. Any idea??

I opened a project from last year, and when compiled in 2.1.3GA I get this warning: `[WARN] Trying to open a new window from within a Modal Window is unsupported.` I had been opening a modal window at launch: ~~~ wIntro.open({ modal : true, ...

Hi, My application has a root TabGroup as the base. I am poping open heavyweight windows over the tabgroup to display information as required. Sometimes I have the need to display things modally from the pop-up window. Eg: Case: ---- Tabgroup opens...

In the Kitchen Sink app, in the section that previews animations for modal windows, the Partial Curl demo on curls the page up halfway, but when I add this into my app, the page always curls up 95% of the way. At first I thought it was because of the...

I got a simple modal window that opens like so. ~~~ _mapWindow.open({modal: true, modalTransitionStyle: Ti.UI.iPhone.MODAL_TRANSITION_STYLE_FLIP_HORIZONTAL}); ~~~ The window is built like so: ~~~ var _self = Ti.UI.createWindow({ title:...

I trying to create a modal window that when opens will cover approx 80% of the previous window. The screen that I'm getting is fullscreen, completely covering the prior screen and displays the nav bar even though I have set navBar set to false. Here is...

I have a large table view with calendar events in it, sorted by date, that is dispalyed in a modal window that pops up. Is it possible to open the table view halfway down the list, displaying the event nearest to today's date (say for instance the events...

I have a problem when I want to open a window with a transition. When I click the button the window opens first then the transition happens. So what you get is: - Window A is the one that open when the app starts - Click button - Window B opens - Window...

hi, I never understand why model windows exist and witch is the utility of this. Thanks

Hey developers, I've got a modal with a little form in it wich I create like this: ~~~ var modalWindow = Ti.UI.createWindow(); modalWindow.open({ modal : true, modalTransitionStyle: Ti.UI.iPhone.MODAL_TRANSITION_STYLE_COVER_VERTICAL,...

Hi, I have an app that I sometimes send push notifications to. When a push notification arrives, I use the callback to switch to the correct "news" tab that is related to this notification. However if a modal window is open at that moment, it...

Basically how do I do it? In my iPhone app I want to open a modal window (that slides up from the bottom), and then from inside that window be able to move left/right or back/forward through a navigational hierarchy. How would I go about doing that? All I...

Hi, I am trying to implement the following flow. There is an app with different tabs, links, buttons, etc.. Most of those windows are powered by data that is retrieved via HTTP. When I make an HTTP request, I can receive two general responses:...

I have a modal window with a UI Picker it loads properly and closes properly the first time it pops up. The second time it runs there are 2 UI Pickers, the third time it runs there are 3 UI Pickers, etc... I am closing the modal properly and it is being...

[This Link](http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/2.1/index.html#!/api/Titanium.UI.Window) gives a wonderful example showing an iPad with a formsheet email dialog window. The code below it works to create a window. But, is there a way to simply bring the...

Hey folks, I CANT USE THE MODAL:TRUE property (as it has some bugs for kindlefire[https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-7012]) for windows navigation in android so i have to override the android:back event. I am opening win3 from win2 and win2 from...

I have a modal window with a textarea. If I call textarea.focus() nothing happens. I've been able to go around it by putting the textarea.focus() in the window's 'open' event listener. But not being able to set it directly during the creation process...

Morning! I have a small issue, which is actually quite a big issue. If you get me? I have an app which has a news feed in a TableView, when tapped the story loads in a modal window. I have the latest AdMob module for the Marketplace installed and if the...

It is still not clear for me if setting the height or width of a modal window is possible or not. Can anyone please clarify? And if it is possible, could anyone provide me with an example of how to do it?

Application Type: Mobile; Titanium SDK version: 2.0.1 (04/12/12 16:33 999c68a); Platform: iOS 5.1 SDK; Host Operating System: iOS; Titanium Studio, build: 2.0.2.201205311912; I have the following code which i cannot seem to get working. Basically i...

I have a modal window that opens a form for user input, but when I add an event listener for the done button in the title bar and then try and extract the value from the text fields, the value is 'undefined. My code is: ~~~ var moreInformationButton1 =...

Hi, I was experimenting with Parse Module by forge42. I can successfully build for android. But when I try the iOS module, I got the following errors ~~~ [ERROR] clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) [ERROR]...

Hi, Id like to do httpClient request when a modal window open. How would you do? thanks in advance.

The AlertDialog object is defined as modal, but (on Android anyway, API version 1.8.2) when you click outside the dialog box, the box disappears and returns a bogus result. Here's some simple code: ~~~ var alertDialog = Ti.UI.createAlertDialog( {...

Hi guys! I encountered this error message and I haven't found any solution until now, so I decided to ask the question here. Here is the error message `While executing Timer, received script error. 'Attempting to begin a modal transition from...

Hello, I been trying to figure this out for hours now...and no luck, maybe I can find some light here. I have an app that popups a modal window for login proposes. That window asks the user to login and saves some info on a .db and after that it closes...

I'm running into a problem, I have an app and in a normal window I have a table with a number of items. If I click on a row I open a modal row with the details of that row. In that modal window with details I have a small thumb and if people click on that...