image:'../iphone/help_20.png',
backgroundImage:'../iphone/help_20.png',
backgroundSelectedImage:'../iphone/help_20_on.png',
backgroundDisabledImage: '../iphone/help_20_off.png',

7 Answers

• Accepted Answer

  Glad that I was able to help.

• Dont forget to set the title, even blank, and set the width and height. It doesnt get from the image file. Can you put the whole code?

• The code below is failing to create ANYTHING.

  Am I missing something obvious here?
  Do I somehow need to register the images I want to use with the app?

  var alertButton2 = Titanium.UI.createButton({
      backgroundImage:'../iphone/help_20.png',
      width:22,
      height:22,
      title:'',
      right:15,
      top:49
  });
  

• Jeffrey Messick shot me the answer.
  If he chimes in here I'll mark his answer.

  Turns out the "iphone" directory is a special one.
  It can hold the default and app icon… but other images wont resolve there.

  Created a different directory and all seems to be well.

  …ugh… thanks Jeffery!

• Weird…
  I can get the images (and thus the buttons to show) if I use absolute paths.
  Relative paths aren't resolving.

  The code is in screen1.js which is in the "main_windows folder under the "Resources" folder.

  screen1.js being called from app.js which is in the "Resources" folder..

  And the images are in the "iphone" folder under the "Resources" folder."

  But I get nothing If I use the path:

  backgroundImage:'../iphone/alert2_54.png',
  

  So I thought "maybe" it needs to be relative to app.js but I still get nothing using:

  backgroundImage:'iphone/alert2_54.png',
  

  … ? … this should not be hard … ?

• I'm seriously confused.
  In a fit of desperation I changed this:

  backgroundImage:'/Users/xxxx/Desktop/v2/yyyy/Resources/iphone/alert2_54.png',
  

  to this:

  backgroundImage:Titanium.App.appURLToPath('alert2_54.png'),
  

  It worked like a champ in the simulator, but of course
  errored out in a big red screen once it hit the hardware.

• Please check this article about platform-specific images. Note that this does not work for iPhone Simulator at the moment. Please check this bug for details.