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Having trouble creating a toolbar - what am I doing wrong?

Hi folks,

I replaced app.js with the following code, mostly taken from the KitchenSink:

var topWin = Titanium.UI.createWindow();
var b1 = Titanium.UI.createButton({
    title:'One Button - Left',
    width:200,
    height:40,
    top:10
});
b1.addEventListener('click', function()
{
    var b = Titanium.UI.createButton({
        title:'Button',
//        style:Titanium.UI.iPhone.SystemButtonStyle.BORDERED,
        enabled:false
    });
    b.enabled = false;
    topWin.setToolbar([b]);
});
topWin.add(b1);
topWin.open();

Unfortunately on Android it just crashes on startup, and on the iPhone when I click on the button, nothing happens. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think you should not add comment (//) in your createButton

And you should createToolbar instead of setToolbar (since it does not exist)

so your code should be more like :

var topWin = Titanium.UI.createWindow();
var b1 = Titanium.UI.createButton({
    title:'One Button - Left',
    width:200,
    height:40,
    top:10
});


b1.addEventListener('click', function()
{
        var b = Titanium.UI.createButton({
        title:'Button'
    });
    var tb = Titanium.UI.createToolbar([b]);
    topWin.add(tb)
});
topWin.add(b1);
topWin.open();

Answer 2

Thanks for the reply!

I'm afraid that's not true about setToolbar - setToolbar() is used in a number of parts of KitchenSink, and it seems it can be used interchangeably with window.toolbar = […].

Looking into the differences between the KitchenSink demo and my own code, the only difference I could find is that I wasn't using a tabbed window. Digging around, I found this in the docs: "this is only valid when the window is a child of a tab.". So it looks like the solution here is to use createToolbar() if the window is not part of a tab. Since the toolbar only works on the iPhone anyway, perhaps I'll look into a cross-platform solution instead.

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Having trouble creating a toolbar - what am I doing wrong?

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