6 Answers

• I assume you could one of two things. Hook the blur event and grab the search string and initiate a call to your server and refill the table. Or you could hook the change event and do the same thing. Depending on the number of rows, indices and type of data it may be better to catch the blur since it would be called less often than change.

  Your code looks pretty good, should have looked at it first ;) Going to see what you are doing and if I have any suggestions.

  Yes. Nicely done. I think you can do what I mentioned above. You should be able to trigger off of a combination of blur/change/return and refill the table with the search results. Where it may get tricky is undoing/canceling the search. You'd probably want to keep the results of standard scrolling in an array and append the search results to the previous list results and that would let you undo by popping the array back into the table.

• Hey John, sorry, but could you give me an example of what you are saying? I understand what you're saying 100%, it's just I work better with an example of it, rather than just an explanation. If you know what you mean? :)

• John, I think you have been scratching your head and drinkin' coffee for long enough! Haha ;)

• Here is the basic idea in code, sorta.

  var lastSearchTerm = '';
  
  function doSearch(search) {
    var xhr = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient();
    xhr.setTimeout(60000);
  
    xhr.onerror = function(e) { 
      Ti.API.info(e); 
    };
  
    xhr.onload = function(){
      var json = this.responseText;
      var response = JSON.parse(json);
  
      /* By this point you have some new data to append to your table */
      // You could push the data into the table or merge it with an array of previous fetched data.
    }
  
    xhr.open('POST', service_url /* this is your url that would respond with search data */);
  
    var parms = {
      searchTerm: search
    }; 
  
    xhr.send(parms);
  }
  
  
  // This gets called when a key was pressed or enter or blur
  function searchChanged(search) {
  
    // If the search changed, we do our call to the server.
    if (search != lastSearchTerm) {
      doSearch(search);
    }
  
    lastSearchTerm = search;
  }
  
  
  
  // These are your listeners with a change to call the search
  searchbar.addEventListener('change', function(e)
  {
      Titanium.App.Properties.setBool('if_searched', true);
      searchChanged(e.value);
  
      return e.value;
  });
  searchbar.addEventListener('return', function(e)
  {
      searchbar.blur();
      Titanium.App.Properties.setBool('if_searched', true);
      searchChanged(e.value);
  
      return e.value;
  });
  
  searchbar.addEventListener('blur', function(e)
  {
      searchChanged(e.value);
  }
  

  In your PHP you could expect to see a new variable $_POST['searchTerm'] that you can use to do a search through your data.

• Hey John. Is it possible to put a HTTP client inside another one? I've never tried it before, would it cause any lag?

• Alright John, I really don't understand what I am supposed to do with that.