Community Questions & Answers

Have any of you had any success using Alloy's buttongrid widget inside a popover? If so, how did you do it? What I tried: Made an alloy controller/model/etc with a window or view (doesn't seem to matter which) and a buttongrid inside that. Its JS file...

I'm trying to open a photo gallery from a toolbar button. The toolbar and button are defined using Alloy. See below for my code. Other popovers are able to launch from this toolbar perfectly well using the same basic setup. But the photo gallery fails...

Is it possible to open a new Popover from another Popover without dismissing this? For instance, Popover 1 show current text properties (font, size, color). From this a new Popover would be open to select a new color. target iPad, Titanium SDK 3.0.2

I'm trying to create a ButtonBar with 2 buttons that when clicked, will show an iPad Popover underneath the clicked button. Getting Popover positioned correctly seems to be the problem. I can get it to show up centered below the ButtonBar, but it's not...

Hey folks. I'm trying to display a popover on button tap. The issue I'm running into is that when I first try showing the popover the view inside of my popover flashes and goes away. When I close and reopen the popover the view inside of my popover shows...

To show a Ti.UI.iPad.Popover on a specific row in a TableView i used to refer to [that workarorund](http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/25961/possible-to-use-popoveroptiondialog-with-table-row-in-ipad). This worked fine until SDK 3.0.0, but with...

Hello Friends, I am currently using popover View for showing detail of map annotation. problem is that my popover is of fixed size so when my annotation is near of any ends of device than half popover cuts down. i need to adjust it like Maps...

Hi, in my iPad app, I use a Popover to display a tableview. the tableview is created only one time and the same thing with the popover. ~~~ categoryPopover = Ti.UI.iPad.createPopover({ width:300,...

Right now i've got a regular window with a navigation group opening inside a popover but it just doesn't look very good and was wondering if it was possible to put that nav group functionality up in the popover navbar...basically, i need the back button...

I would like to play the users iTunes music from my iPad app but when I open the music library using Titanium.Media.showMusicLibrary() it opens either in the top left or bottom right corner of the iPad screen. The is no help on how to position it in the...

I'm working on Titanium Studio 2.1 and developing for iOS, currently I'm interested in displaying the camera interface on a popover, the same way Facebook does on its iPad app, but so far I haven't found anything related to how to do this. Does anybody...

Reposted question from [Stack Overflow] [1] I'm just started working in Titanium. And now working on popover in titanium, using the following code. ~~~ var myPopover = Ti.UI.iPad.createPopover({ height: 150, width: 150...

I am trying to correctly size a popover window to match the passed Tableview contents. The height = 'auto' does not work, it won't display any size. I tried using Ti.UI.SIZE and Ti.UI.FILL and they appear broken with a JIRA issue that while showing...

I'm looking for a working example of someone using the popover control with the alloy framework. Please post if you have something. Thanks.

Hi there, Im trying to add an optionDialog (well....something like this) to an iPad.Popover, does anyone know of a way I can do this? here is a picture of what im trying to achieve: ![alt...

From the documentation it shows this line in the example: ~~~ popover.show({view:button}); ~~~ but in the documentation for the show method it doesn't list any parameters. In the list of properties, there is no "view" property. What is...

Hi there, I'm sure I must be doing something stupid but how can you change the popover border color? The only thing I can interact with is the backgroundColor property but the navBar stays blue. Thanks!

I'm trying to style a popover on an iPad. I've set backgroundColor, backgroundGradient, background...younameit... and no changes have been made at all. How am I supposed to color the top of the popover (where the title is shown)?

Hi all the experts out there, I am trying to use OptionDialog or Popover with table row and I couldn't get it to work. The idea is to create a table of items, and when the user selects one of it, an OptionDialog (or Popover) will show up with the arrow...

I am trying to get a popover that points to the table row the user taps on the ipad. I want to display detail data for that row. I have tried following the tip...

Anyone know why this won't work? I have the image button working correctly, but when I click the button I want the image to change .. giving the user a visual cue that a change has been made and it doesn't work and doesn't throw an...

I am struggling trying to find a way to attach a popover to the detail disclosure system button I am using in my code. I saw the post and tried using the leftview property (which works), but the problem is that I need to use the leftView property as a...

Hiya I need to create a couple of iPad popoverViews for my app. Having struggled with the API info here i found a good example here: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/23941/ipad-popoverview---any-examples My question is, is there cause for...

Hi, I'd like to implement in my app a view with the same functionality as in the view you see when you scroll left on iOS, where you see a search field on the top and by typing you get a popover that contains a table view with data corresponding to what...

Has anyone noticed this bug(?), When adding something to an iPad Popover, it displays in the windows' center and not in the popover , as it should. Does anyone know a fix for...

I've got an iPad app with a buttonbar set as the rightNavButton. The buttonbar has 3 labels/buttons. Two of these three buttons trigger a popover to appear. The arrow at the top of the popover always points at the center button, regardless of which button...

Hi, Iam getting an popover crash with this msg `[WARN] Unable to display popover; view is not attached to the current window` Iam having two tabs , where the popover window is being loaded in first tab & works fine ,when the user toggles back from...

how to position the popover to the center of the window irrespective of the position of the view. my view's position is at the bottom of the window. if view is clicked, the popover should open and hover to the center of the window. I tried adding center,...

I face a strange problem on iPad. I have a toolbar on a popover, the first time the popover is shown, no problem, the problem occurs at the second time, I see the toolbar and the buttons but I cannot click on them. It seems that the first time the popover...

I'm trying to create a popover for a searchfield in my app that will display autocomplete suggestions, basically identical to the ones in Safari (iPad version). I don't want to have any navbar at the top of the popover, I just want a thin border around the...

Has anyone found a way to add more options to the default copy/paste popover? I am looking to add share and highlight options when a user has a piece of text selected. Instapaper is an example of an app that does this. Much thanks, Greg

I want to set some property say title for popover view on orientation change. But it's not reflecting the new value. The scenario : if popover view is open and I change the ipad orientation, at this orientation change, I want to change the title of the...

Hi, Iam creating a popover on click of a view. Iam not able to position the popover window to the center of the page with properties top,left,bottom.. How to achieve this & hide the arrow ?

[WARN] Unable to display popover; view is not attached to the current window

I'm having trouble getting the splitwindow master view popover to show up in portrait. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can trigger the master view popover to show up. Although undocumented, I've found this function, but it just crashes my...

Hi, is there a way to hide a popover navbar? I know with navigation groups and such you just have 'win.navBarHidden = true;' Can popovers do the same?

BackgroundColor,bordercolor and every other options avail in API doesn't change the default Arrow & top bar color (blue) of a pop over window. How to customize it without going got the alternative option of ...

I have an popover with a leftNavButton, but in one moment a need remove this button, when i call: ~~~ mypopover.leftNavButton = null; ~~~ the App crashes! what i'm do wrong? This occurred in 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2 and 1.5.0 (04/11)

~~~ var popover = Ti.UI.iPad.createPopover({ width: 400, height: 490, arrowDirection: Ti.UI.iPad.POPOVER_ARROW_DIRECTION_UP, title: 'Test' }); var view = Ti.UI.createView({ width: 400, height: 490 }); popover.add(view); view.add( Ti.UI.createTextField({...

I want to have the OptionDialog appear under button on the toolbar on the iPad - a bit like hitting the Cancel button in the iPad's Mail app will show a "Delete Draft" / "Save Draft" option dialog immediately under the Cancel button...

Hi, I'm trying to use a NavigationGroup inside a popover iPad control. I get it working adding the navigationGroup to the popover ~~~ popover.add(navGroup); ~~~ But, in this way, I have two title bars: one for the popover and one for the window inside...

What I wanna do is to open a tableView in a popover and all tableViewRow has child. Whenever a row is clicked, it slide to the left and open a the child View. Is it possible? In Window, I used to open the child like this: ~~~ var win2 =...

Do anyone know how to set the anchor point of a Popover(for iPad) at specific location in a view? What I am trying to do is make the popover arrow point to a specific location. Besides, is it possible to attach the popover arrow to a slider thumb? So that...

i was able to hack Ti code so as to display a popover without the title bar 1. on xcode open TiUIiPadPopoverProxy.m located under build>iphone>classes in your project directory 2.replace the following block of code ~~~ -(UIPopoverController...

Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to detect when a popover is closed by losing focus so I can change a button's background. I've tried adding a listener to the main window for focus, tried adding a listener to the popover for blur and no luck. Any...

I know how to make an iPad Popover and have it associated with a view,and then it has its "tail" with the arrow that points to this view. But is there a way to create a popover that simple centers itself in the window, and (like all popovers)...

Messing around with popovers in an iPad app, and it works great. Only trouble is that if I touch on any part of the screen outside of the popover, it automatically closes it. I need to prevent this behavior as I will have a Cancel button the user should...

As the title,... I have a left navigation bar that opens a popover when clicked... if I left the popover open, and change iPad's orientation, the app just crash, and exit. Throwing the following error `2011-12-05 01:35:04.172 iPadTest[1439:17603] ***...

Wanted to know if anyone has experienced a similar issue... It's issues like this that make me want to stop using Appcelerator... I have an iPad Application that has a simple popover menu... In this popover, I have 5 buttons. This is the problem... As...

I'm using the SplitView example from the KitchenSink-iPad. I have a RightNavButton that opens a Modal Window, but the Popover from the MasterView stays visible. The Popover will not disappear when clicking on the Navbar. I can not find the object for the...