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Can client side python use threads?

I have never programed in Python before, so excuse my code. I have this script that will run in a terminal but I can't get it to run client side. I am running this in Appcelerator's Titanium application. Anyway, I have been troubleshooting it and it seems that it isn't running the threads at all. Is this a limitation? does anyone know? ...

Monotouch or Titanium for rapid application development on IPhone?

As a .Net developer I always dreamed for the possibility to develop with my existing skills (c#) applications for the Iphone. Both programs require a Mac and the Iphone Sdk installed. Appcelerator Titanium was the first app I tried and it is based on exposing some Iphone native api to javascript so that they can be called using that la...

Windows file permission error (IO Error 13) with Android SDK (and Titanium) and git - help needed

Running Titanium Appcelerator 0.8.1 on a Windows XP Virtual Machine, with Android SDK 2.1 When running build/install app, getting the following error: [TRACE] f = open(os.path.join(dest, dest_file), "w") [TRACE] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\firstname.surname\\Desktop\\MyApp\\build\\android\\.class...

Titanium vs The Native Tools

Hi, I'm still checking everything out. I'm wondering what the limitations are if we develop the app using Titanium. What cannot be done using Titanium, for iPhone and for Android? What things can only be done using only the the native tools? I heard that performance could be an issue. How bad is this going to be? Thank you in advance...

Appcelerator Titanium - auto height table views break with shortish text

I posted this on the Appcelerator Titanium dev Q&A site, but maybe someone here has had this issue... KitchenSink 1.1 illustrates this issue. In table_view_api_auto_height.js, changing row: addRow(0,'This is some long text. This is some long text. This is some long text. This is some long text. This is some long text. This is some...

Appcelerator Titanium: Android SDK doesn't load

Hello! I started developing with Titanium and now I really stuck on one part. I downloaded the Adroid SDK and added the path to Titanium: /Users/michael/Downloads/android-sdk-mac_86/ I can open e.g. Kitchen Sink in the iPhone Simulator without problems, but when I want to open it in Android then my screen looks like this: Screenshot ...

POST EXIF Data from iPhone

I am using Titanium Appcelerator for iPhone application development . My project requires the EXIF data from images stored in the gallery . I notice that whenever I send an image from the gallery using Titanium.Media.openPhotoGallery , the image headers are completely stripped , and I receive the file at 320 x 320 resolution only . I...

JavaScript QR Code Reader - can it be done? Or, Remote Service?

I'm doing a bit of preliminary research on an upcoming project and I have a quick question that I figure I'll throw up here while I look elsewhere, in case anyone has any experience with this. The question is simple: is it possible to read a QR code using JavaScript? Is there a remote service to which I can pass a bitmap object from a c...

How to organize JS files in a Appcelerator Titanium project

Hi all: I have recently started creating an iPhone application using Appcelerator's Titanium. Since the application is essentially all JS, I needed some advice on how I should organize this project. It's becoming very easy to just create long procedural files for each view in the application. Is there a way I can incorporate MVC, or so...

can appcelerator use NSUserDefaults on iphone?

I'm trying out the version 1.2 appcelerator and wanted to use the NSUserDefaults with it... has anyone tried that before?? I can find it in the docs... :{ thanks!! ...

iPhone SDK "loading" on Titanium Developer

Hi, I have tried this question on the site of Titanium and several tweets to their account, but they either ignore me or refuse to answer. I want to start using their framework, but for some reason the iPhone SDK is always "loading" when in the "TEST & PACKAGE" tab. Have you guys found a fix for this? I have: Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Tit...

Multiple developers on a Titanium project

I'm making an iPhone app with Appcelerator Titanium and I want to share the source code with a few more programmers. I will use a SCM repository which at some point might be open to the general public. Now my question is, are there any files which I should not commit to the repository? In project root I can tell that tiapp.xml and ...

What are the pros and cons of using AppCelerator versus Objective-C

What are the pros and cons of using AppCelerator versus Objective-C ...

Appcelerator Titanium Mobile: app.js not found

I created an app with Appcelerator's Titanium Mobile on my home machine. The path was /Users/[myusername]/Projects/ProjectName. I checked my code into Mercurial. The next day, at my office computer, I cloned the Mercurial repo, and then added the existing app. I tried to run it in the simulator and received the error: could not find...

How do I create a mapview with titanium appcelerator mobile?

I just start to work with appcelerator and I haven't found a good layout tutorial yet. At the moment I try to show a mapview with a specific location. Has anybody an example or a good pointer on how to do this? ...

Appcelerator Titanium: Is it possible to access the user's music?

With Appcelerator Titanium is there any method for accessing the user's music library? With the Apple SDK I can implement the MPMediaPickerController, which allows the user to create a playlist of media items for use in a third party app. ...

Voting using Appcelerator Titanium and website

I want to capture peoples votes on both a website and in an app using appcelerator Titanium. Still a bit of a newbie and am looking for the best way to capture the votes and store them in some kind of database, probably mySQL. Any thoughts? ...

appcelerator tableview autosliding

Using Appcelerator: I have a form, a tableView with textFeilds I want it so when I focus on them, it slides the window or the view to the top, under the navigation bar. Right now, the keyboard is blocking the last few rows. Do I need a listener on each form to slide? If so how do you do that? ...

Appcelerator Titanium : cant get videoPlayer to show video player controls

I am trying to update an application to work on iOS 4 and I cannot get the movie player controls to show up on the video. Here's the code I am using... var movie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer({ url: vidurl, backgroundColor: '#000', movieControlMode: Titanium.Media.VIDEO_CONTROL_DEFAULT }); videoWindow...

Appcelerator Titanium: Create system/icon buttons without placing on toolbar

Is there a way to create System buttons (or "image/icon" buttons) in Appcelerator Titanium without having to place them on a toolbar? I would like to just be able to place them on a regular view. As an alternative, I can just create ImageViews, but I lose the built-in animations when doing that. I'm hoping I'm just missing something. ...