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Issues with Dashboard

I'm not sure what is going on here, the first section of code (just like the kitchen sink example) doesn't work but the second version I hacked together does:

for (var c=0;c<iconSet.length;c++)
{        
var item = Titanium.UI.createDashboardItem({
image:Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory, '/img/sporticons/image.png'), 
selectedImage:Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory, '/img/sporticons/image_on.png'), 
label: labels[c] });
data.push(item);
}

for (var c=0;c<iconSet.length;c++)
{        
var item = Titanium.UI.createDashboardItem({label: labels[c]});
var image = Titanium.UI.createImageView({
image: Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory, '/img/sporticons/image.png')});
item.add(image);
data.push(item);
}

The problem with this I cannot specify a selected image with the dashboard.

— asked July 30th 2010 by John Welch
  • dashboard
  • icons
  • images
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2 Answers

  • Try this:

    for (var c=0;c<iconSet.length;c++)
{       
var item = Titanium.UI.createDashboardItem({
image:'img/sporticons/image.png',
selectedImage:'img/sporticons/image_on.png', 
label: labels[c] });
data.push(item);
}
    — answered July 30th 2010 by Goran Skledar
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    • Basically, while the ImageView.image property can either be a url, Blob or file, I believe the DashboardView.image can only be a url at the moment.

      — commented July 30th 2010 by Goran Skledar

    • Err, DashboardItem.image that is :)

      — commented July 30th 2010 by Goran Skledar

  • Figured it out…

    My project for some reason will not reference the images in a relative manner.

    When I used Ti.Filesystem.getFile it was giving it a file as you said. What I needed was to add the Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory to the path of the image. It now works.

    Thanks for the help.

    — answered July 30th 2010 by John Welch
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    • You can also use the nativePath of the file.

      — commented July 26th 2012 by Adam Gressen
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