5 Answers

• This doesn't seem to work for me… How can I access the "moo" object in my second view which is generated (in the example) via "bar.js"?

• the easiest way, and i think the best architecture is to fire events passing the information you want and then listening for these events in the other js files.

  so in you table view click event

  Ti.App.fireEvent.fireEvent('user_selected', {
     // you can also just pass the whole object here...
      row_id : 10;
  });
  

  now anywhere in you application, listen for this event and you will get the data

  someDetailedView.addEventListener('user_selected', function(data) {
      Ti.API.info("user_selected " + data. row_id);
      // get the data from the data store
  });
  

• Hey, if i understand you correctly then the answer lies in the API documentation at the bottom of the UI.Window page - Passing Data.

  Basically since data in one script cant access data or functions from another (because they run in seperate contexts) what you need to do is pass your variable/method to the script you want.

  Here's an example:

  var foo = "test"
  
  var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
      url:'bar.js'
  });
  
  win.moo = foo;
  

  Notice the last line - this is basically saying "add a variable 'moo' to the 'win' object and let it be the value of a variable 'foo' in the current script"

  Within your bar.js script you would now be able to make use of the variable 'moo' and it will have the value that 'test' had in the previous window.

• is that…
  win.moo = test;

  or

  win.moo = foo;

  that may have been a typo?

  but thanks for the explanation.

• My code..

  customers.js :

      //create tableView event listener
                  tableView.addEventListener('click', function(e)
      {
  
  
      //set properties for passed info
      var newWin = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
          title:e.row.name,
          url:'customerDetail.js',
          passedName:e.row.name,
          passedID:e.row.id
              });
  
      newWin.open({animated:true, modal:true});
  });
  

  customerDetail.js:

  var custName = win.passedName;
  

  then custName will hold the value of whichever row was clicked in customers.js