btn2.addEventListener('click',function(e)
{
  win1.close({transition:Titanium.UI.iPhone.AnimationStyle.FLIP_FROM_RIGHT});
  tabGroup1.setActiveTab(e.tabStry).open();
});

3 Answers

• Accepted Answer

  In a click event the variable (in this case e) would only hold globalPoint, x,y, source and type. The most useful is source but unfortunately it would be the button itself in this case. None of those would have access to tabStry so e.tabStry would always evaluate to null. Since tabStry is more or less global, you could say

  tabGroup1.setActiveTab(tabStry).open();
  

  Thanks for the code sample, it helped me understand what you were trying to do. Let me know if this helped.

• Unless there is some other code that you aren't showing, this line of code can't work as expected.

    tabGroup1.setActiveTab(e.tabStry).open();
  

  There is no e.tabStry in a click event so you would get either a NULL or 0 which would likely cause the first tab to be selected. Try replacing e.tabStry with a real value (e.g. 1,2,3, etc) or a variable that has been defined and see if it helps.

• Sorry, I'm very new to this stuff. I have only been working with appcelerator for a few days and this is my first time posting to the message board. I did define tabStry as one of the tabs. My complete code is below.

  //Create tab group
  var tabGroup1 = Titanium.UI.createTabGroup();
  
  //Create About Window
  var winAbt = Titanium.UI.createWindow({  
      title:'About Us',
      backgroundColor:'#183b63',
      barColor:'#000',
      url:'winAbt.js'
  });
  var tabAbt = Titanium.UI.createTab({  
      icon:'images/icons/group.png',
      title:'About Us',
      window:winAbt
  });
  
  //Create Story Window
  var winStry = Titanium.UI.createWindow({  
      title:'The Story',
      backgroundColor:'#183b63',
      barColor:'#000',
      url:'winStry.js'
  });
  var tabStry = Titanium.UI.createTab({  
      icon:'images/icons/book.png',
      title:'Story',
      window:winStry
  });
  
  // add tabs to tab group
  tabGroup1.addTab(tabAbt);  
  tabGroup1.addTab(tabStry);
  
  // Define Home Screen Buttons
  var btn1 = Titanium.UI.createButton({
      title:'About Us',
      width:'264',
      height:'55',
      left:'32',
      top:'135',
      backgroundImage:'images/btnRed.png'
  });
  var btn2 = Titanium.UI.createButton({
      title:'The Story',
      width:'264',
      height:'55',
      left:'32',
      top:'215',
      backgroundImage:'images/btnRed.png'
  });
  
  // build home screen
  win1.add(btn1);
  win1.add(btn2);
  win1.open();
  
  btn1.addEventListener('click',function(e)
  {
     win1.close({transition:Titanium.UI.iPhone.AnimationStyle.FLIP_FROM_RIGHT});
     tabGroup1.open();
  });
  btn2.addEventListener('click',function(e)
  {
     win1.close({transition:Titanium.UI.iPhone.AnimationStyle.FLIP_FROM_RIGHT});
     tabGroup1.setActiveTab(e.tabStry).open();
  });