Posts by DecSoft

Hello Ryan,

The controls that we have "out of the box" don't support something like that. We can know the "index" and the text of the selected item, so we must do whatever thing with that information. Probably it's possible to create something like that using the HTML Control and the appropriate HTML markup and Javascript code, in a similar way than what is show in this post.

If you want to use the "out of the box" controls, it's up to you what to do, based in the data that you are using. So, once you know the item index or the item text, you can search in certain array or object to match that item and get the rest information about the item that you need.

I am not sure if my explaintaion is very good... so please, go ahead if you have any further question.

Hello Danny,

You are right: I forget that we are talking about a multiselect list... but it's ok, with a bit more work we can get something like that working:

I add a bit more of Javascript and a new "item-selected" CSS class in the app "Inline CSS" option.

Hello Danny,

If I am not wrong the Select control never show a horizontal scroll, and, we can't force it using any CSS style. A possible workaround can be to place the Select inside a Container, made the Select as width as the larger item, and, set the Container's width to what we wanted, and then use the "overflow-x: auto" of the Container. You can see this approach in the below app sample:

Another possible approach is to use a Menu control instead of a Select one, and use the "overflow-x" of the Menu:

Another approach (probably the best to me) can be to use a HTML control, and, use our own HTML markup to show a list of "large items" in a way that don't get out of the screen, so we no need the horozintal scroll at all:

P.S. In this last app sample, you must look at the view Show event, as well the HTML markup placed in the used HTML control.

Glad to know that you got it, Danny!

Mala suerte, entonces: por alguna razón Cordova no soporta esos eventos en iOS... :-(

Hola Jordi,

¿De qué plataforma estamos hablando? Puesto que esos eventos parecen disponibles sólo en Android...

Hello Danny,

If we talk about the "Alert" action there is no problem even if the view changes. Remember than the "Alert" action show a native platform dialog alert, so this action is quite recommendable. However, if we want to use the "AlertBox" action, then we must take in count that when we go to another view, the possible alert is hidden. So the approach must be: 1º Set a flag variable like "ShowAlert" to "true" before we move to another view. 2º Use the another view Show event to look for the flag variable, and, if required, show then yes, use the "AlertBox" action.

So the button which go to another view can look like this:

And therefore in the "View2" Show event we can write this code:

Absolutely right, Danny! That's exactly!

Hello Danny,

We are talking about paragraphs and textboxes for the code... that is, the "p" and the "code" HTML tags... probably we no need an editor for this beyond the Notepad. ;-)

Hello Danny,

Please, remember to use the "code" HTML tag. Certainly, you are right, the Dropdown don't work as expected in your project, but, it's not related with the control itself, but with the app theme that you are using. Apparently that theme ("Cosmo") have some problems with the Dropdown control. Other themes too. I need to investigate this when possible. In the meanwhile... sorry but you cannot use the "Cosmo" nor other affected themes.

Hello Danny,

It's quite rare. Maybe you are changing the Dropdown Items variable at runtime? Remember that variable is an Array, so you cannot set an string to it, for example.

You're welcome, Danny! :-)

Hello Danny,

Sorry, but I can't reproduce the problem here. Please, be sure that you edit the items in the Array editor dialog, be sure there are really two lines. Take a look at the Dropdown app sample too. If the problem persists, please, post here, and, if possible, provide a sample app in which we can see the problem.

Hello Ryan,

I commit a mistake in my previous post. Certainly, Javascript AB functions can return something, and, I mention that AB functions can't do it, but, in fact can do it, using the "Return" action, which is intended to be used when calling the function from Javascript. So in both cases AB and Javascript functions we can do something like this using Javascript:

Note how we call to the app function, see this help topic for more information. Take a look also at the "External" and "External2" app samples.

Hello Ryan,

AB functions (with AB code) can't provide a "return", so, if we need that an AB function do something and be ready for a result, that function must place the result in an app variable, that we can use after call to the AB function.

AB functions (with Javascript) can provide a "return" value, but, this is intented to be use if we call to the AB function from Javascript. In other case, if we call the function from AB code, we need to use an app variable like above.

Both AB functions (with AB code and with Javascript code) support arguments, of course, and we can pass AB variables to it. Remember that there is a way to access AB stuff (including variables) from Javascript code: read help topic.

Please, Ryan, go ahead if you need any further help.