No 'Swipe' on TableView within View?

Got a fair bit of Titanium experience under my belt, but can't seem to figure out the 'swipe' event.

To replicate:
Create a new project (the tab base code), point one of the tab windows at a .js file, and stick a tableView in there. No matter how I try to hack it, I can't get it to pick up a 'swipe' event (though click works fine).

Any ideas? I'm wanting to swipe to navigate the data being viewed (moving to the next/previous day on a calendar view).

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Yeah, it seems the tableview sees the swipe only in edit mode.
You could register touchstart and touchend events and detect if the difference for x property is bigger than N pixels - we have swipe.

If is smaller than few pixels we have click :)
— answered July 23rd 2010 by Dan Tamas
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- Sadly, touchstart/touchmove/touchend don't seem to fire either!
  Get the feeling this is either a major bug, or I'm being a major idiot.
  
  Can anyone clarify? :D
  
  ~A
  
  — commented July 23rd 2010 by Andy Smith
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Do you want just the general swipe action, or the swipe to delete action?

If its the latter, then make sure you have editable:true in your createTableView()
— answered July 23rd 2010 by Chris Johnson
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- Cheers for the answer - I'm not after swipe to delete.
  
  I'm creating a 'to-do' list view for a single day, and want the user to be able to swipe left/right to navigate to the previous/next day's list.
  
  I just can't seem to get the swipe event to fire!
  
  ~A
  
  — commented July 23rd 2010 by Andy Smith
- Has anyone figured this out? I'm on 1.5.1 and on Android - can't get the swipe event to fire on a TableView…
  
  — commented December 31st 2010 by Takahito Torimoto
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Add touchstart to the table.

The issue is that if you have a custom row and click on an element( label by example ) you don't get the x coordinate.

can you show me how your row looks like?
— answered July 23rd 2010 by Dan Tamas
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- It's not even a custom row - though it does have some custom data attached:
```
var row = Titanium.UI.createTableViewRow({
    eventid:calendarevents[i].id,
    title: hours + ':' + minutes + ' - ' + calendarevents[i].title,
    eventtitle:calendarevents[i].title, 
    eventdescription: calendarevents[i].description,
    eventstarttime: hours + ':' + minutes,
    eventendtime: endtimehours + ':' + endtimeminutes,
    eventstarttimestamp:calendarevents[i].starttime,
    eventendtimestamp:calendarevents[i].endtime
});

data.push(row);
```
  Draws fine, click events are fine, data is passed fine - just no swipe or touch events fire!
  
  ~A
  
  — commented July 23rd 2010 by Andy Smith
- Additional discovery: the touch events DO work, but only on rows that have data in them.
  
  Hmm, if the events are only on populated rows, I may have to rethink this as I need the swipe event to work even when it's an empty tableview.
  
  I shall wrap the whole thing in a view and attach the swipe event to that. Let's see what happens…
  
  — commented July 23rd 2010 by Andy Smith
- No go on the View-based solution. Same problems, and no swipe!
  
  Looks like I'll have to give up on this functionality unless someone can show me otherwise!
  
  — commented July 23rd 2010 by Andy Smith
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wait a second, you have empty rows? mmm

do something else:

create a custom row like this( hope is clear )
```
tablerow->wrap_view( width:100%, height: your_row_height)->label
```
if you have data set the label else let only the wrap_view

add touchstart/end to wrap_view

it works?
— answered July 23rd 2010 by Dan Tamas
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- Sorry, by 'empty rows' I meant that the table view takes the whole screen, but there isn't enough data to fill it, so it renders some 'empty' rows. I didn't mean I was adding empty rows to it!
  
  — commented July 23rd 2010 by Andy Smith
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How many visible rows are in an empty table? 9 ?
Why not create "fake" rows with empty text( or spaces ) until you reach the minimum numbers?

Would this work?

— answered July 23rd 2010 by Dan Tamas
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Did you get this resolved? Ive come across the same bug, need a fix for it to complete my app

— answered July 29th 2010 by Chris Johnson
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Did you get this resolved? Ive come across the same bug, need a fix for it to complete my app

— answered July 29th 2010 by Chris Johnson
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