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-**hello experts** I am trying to develop a titan android application, the application needs to be set only once after...

Hi, I have variables in app.js which are globals in all application in my iPhone App. When i try that with Android, my variables are not found. so how to make a variable visible in all the app ? thanks

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...

Hi there, my alert doesn't work, i have missed something :( i can't find it :( what should i do? ~~~ var lat1; var lon1; var myLocation = function(latitude,longitude){ lat1 = latitude; lon1 =...

I have a mobile web app, displayed in an IFRAME. I need to pass some data from a URL parameter in the IFRAME's SRC attribute, as in `src="/myapps/index.html?foo=bar` I could also put the app on the page itself, if the iframe is an issue, but I am...

Don't know how i can save a array instead of variables in commonJS module as described here: [commonJS & Global Variable](http://www.thewarpedcoder.net/2011/12/apccelrator-titanium-commonjs-global-variables) I tried the following code, but it doesn't...

~~~ for (var i = 1; i < (x+1) ; i++){ var b = Titanium.UI.createButton({ width: bs, height: bs, id: "btn"+i, index: i, backgroundImage: "bBG"+i }); }; ~~~ This doesn't work. Also `backgroundImage: bBG+i` or...

Hi, what I want to do works fine with iPhone, but not with Android. I have to say that I'm not an JavaScript expert, may be I do some basic thing wrong. This is my code snippet of file DatasetListController.js: ~~~ function...

Is it possible to write and read an variable in an includes js-file? I want to save some values in an global central file, for example the username, password, server-url, etc. which i want to use in different other files. I have this js-file to save my...

I am familiar with the concept of passing a variable to a new window by setting it as a window property. For example, if I have ~~~ var myText = 'hello'; var win2 = Ti.UI.createWindow({ // some parameters, customText: myText }); ~~~ And now I can...

Is it possible to do something like that: ~~~ var VARIABLE = blablabla var table = Ti.UI.createTableView(tableViewOptions); var tableData = []; var xhr = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient({ onload: function() { // Ti.API.debug(this.responseText); ...

Hi I have two windows "win1" and "win2". I have declared a variable in win1 as `var patient;` the win2 has been created like this ~~~ var win2 = Ti.UI.createWindow({ url:'home.js' }); ~~~ the problem is I am not getting the value of...

how do i link variable from : ~~~ galleryImage.addEventListener('click', function(e) { Ti.Media.openPhotoGallery({ success : function(event) { var imageTaken = Ti.UI.createImageView({ // <<<<<this variable image : event.media, //...

Why does this not work? I thought to give all the buttons a function with the `data.addEventListener` but that doesn't work. ~~~ var data = []; data[0]=v1cont.add(Ti.UI.createButton({title:L('string1'), custom_item: 1, width:btnWidth,...

I am wanting to declare a var using data passed into the webview from TI. .html file ~~~ Ti.App.addEventListener('ad_id',function(e) { var url_item = e.id; }) ~~~ Then later down the html. ~~~ <script...

I'm retrieving JSON information fine referencing a method in a seperate .js source. The trouble is, while the method is running, the code on the current source is being run synchronously, and hence the return variable is still length 0. How do I structure...

Hi, I have a.js and some global variables (lat,lon). Then I write Ti.include(b.js) and in the b.js I write Ti.include(c.js). The lat and lon are accessible but I get this error: [WARN] Exception in event callback. { line = 102; message =...

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...

I detected a wierd behaviour...I was using a variable declared in one js (using common Js) ObjOne.js ~~~ function ObjOne(win,id) { var x; PatientHospitalButton.addEventListener('click', function(e) { var w =...

Hi. I wonder if it is some way to do an alertbox where the user can input a name and then use that name as a variable in the name. Scenario: The user has a facebookpage named "Greatfbpage" When they start my app they get an alertbox propmting...

I'm interested is there any way to display full variable's value in expressions window? Now it's displayed as ``` few_first_characters... (length: 1000) ``` 

So, I'm trying to pass a value from php to javascript. I already tried some codes that I found in the internet, mas nothing works. I have json to pass javascript to php and then return to javascript but in this part I just want to pass a value from php to...

Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and just started today trying to learn about Titanium SDK. I'm looking forward to learn from- and contribute to this community in the future. I have a problem that I can't find a solution for in this forum/google (maybe...

I would like to create a variable name from a input value. For example if I had param['kitchensink'], I would like to create a variable called pp.api.data.kitchensink, so I could do something like pp.api.data.kitchensink = results. I know in other...

Below is my code... ~~~ dialog.addEventListener('click',function(e){ if(e.index == '0'){ return carSelected = 'car1'; }else if(e.index == '1'){ return carSelected = 'car2'; } }); ~~~ I can't seem to get the variable out of the event listener....

I can't set a variable inside an event function? ~~~ var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient(); var data; xhr.onload = function() { data = JSON.parse(this.responseText); }; xhr.open('GET', 'example.com'); xhr.send(); // This show...

Hello I am building an RSS reader based on the example of Two App guys. I am getting my RSS feed correct on the main window where all the titles of the post are the variable this_post_title. But when you click on one of the articles you are forwarded on...

I'm wondering what the best practice is to establish a socket connection (I am using socket.io) and have that socket globally shared throughout the app? Being that each window has it's own scope, and common.js modules don't retain state between instances,...

I have an app that currently uses an array to store data in the form of ~~~ var tracks = [ { title : "title 1", username: "user", stream_url: "url here", artwork_url: "img url here also" }, { title :...

Hey folks, Is there any way to get the Titanium array variable get assigned a value from webview scripts. Scenario is that I looped 10 times and at each time I created a row which consist (checkbox created by webview+label to show the items), and I wrote...

What's the preferred way to access variable inside an eventlistener? I found there are many ways to achieve this and curious which method could be used to avoid memory leak ~~~ var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({ objImg: null }); var img =...

Hi, I´m newbie and I´m testing Titanium. I have a list with link to others .js and it´s working nice: ~~~ var data = [ {title:'Family One', hasChild:true, test:'../test/one.js'}, {title:'Family Two', hasChild:true,...

Hi, I have a problem when I want to store the longitude and latitude within a variable. my code is: ~~~ var longitude_; var latitude_; Titanium.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(e){ longitude_ = e.coords.longitude; latitude_ =...

I seem to be running into a scope problem with Titanium. To the best of my knowledge the scope of a variable is the set of brackets {} in which it is declared and any nested brackets. If the item is declared in a for loop the scope is the nested...

I'm trying to do what I feel should be exceptionally easy, and I don't know if I am just hitting a mental roadblock or what. I've searched all over Google and tried looking through some similar Q&A questions but nothing was specifically what I'm having...

Why would this work fine ~~~~ var bHelp = Ti.UI.createButton({ title : 'Help', _file : 'help-recipes.html' }); ~~~~ but this breaks everything that comes after it: ~~~~ var bHelp = Ti.UI.createButton({ title : 'Help', _file :...

Hello! I need your help guys!! I created a table view with text fields for a login window. But How can I get the values of the fields outside the functions? Thank you very much!! `inline code` var win = Titanium.UI.currentWindow; var tabGroup =...

I have a strange behavior. I assign a value to a textfield, this time works good. But in another part of the code, in the same .js, i assign a new value to the same textfield, and the program crash. Example: ~~~ var dblVariable; dblVariable =...

I am developing a mobile app for android and iOS. I have two variables (lat and lon) that are assigned values of GPS coordinates created with Titanium.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition in my app.js page. The webview's url is map.html (local) The map.html...

Hi, i want to how can i do to create multiple variable with a loop. Like this: ~~~ for (var j = 0; j < selectedData.length; j = j + 1) { var basicSwitch = Titanium.UI.createSwitch({ right:0, style:Titanium.UI.Android.SWITCH_STYLE_CHECKBOX, ...

Hi I am trying to make an app. Where i click a button and then it opens up the contact picker. After you select a person it should change the button image to the picture of the contact. Heres the code I am...

I seem to have an issue perhaps not specifically with name-spacing, but with order. A variable I expect to be set, isn't. In ui.js... ~~~ Ti.App.http.test(); alert(Ti.App.http.rs); ~~~ In http.js ~~~ ... http.test = function() { xhr.onload =...

Not sure why this code isn't working... My array is fine, my "lat" variable is declared early as var lat; . It seems like I can set it inside the forwardGeocoder function, but I need access to it after it is set, because I'm looping through a...

I'm coding a desktop application and I need to be able to download and save files as well as update the user as to download progress. Here is the code of the main index file: ~~~ <html> <head> var BINARY_UNITS= [1024, 'Ki', 'Mi', 'Gi', 'Ti',...

How i use a variable outside of JSON onload function? My code: ~~~ var posicion; var item_no; sendit = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient(); sendit.open('GET', 'http://xxxxxxx/json/json.ashx'); sendit.send(params); sendit.onload =...

Is it possible to create an instance of an object like this: ~~~ var myObject = new FooBar(); ~~~ in app.js and be able to use this in child windows? I know I could store data via Titanium.App.Properties, but you can't store methods (functions) in that...

I am trying to create a navigation group app, with a series of windows. I need to have variables in the main application which I can set from the individual windows and then access from other windows. I tried creating a file for this purpose...

Hello I have created multiple views in my application, and I would like to give it a custom variable so i can get it on the click event. Here's my code: ~~~ while(booths.isValidRow()) { var label = Titanium.UI.createLabel({ text:...

Hi, I'm trying to see if an object, specifically iAds, have been created yet. I tried if(iAds != null){} but that doesn't seem to work. How can I check if the createAdView function has been called yet? Thanks, and let me know if I need to clarify...

I’ve had some success recording audio and then playing it back. What I would like to do is play it back at a different speed (say double or half speed) rather than at “normal” speed. I haven’t found a way to do this in Titanium, or by a call to...