Appcelerator Alloy model binding failing with instance model - model-view-controller

controller:
var args=arguments[0]||{};
if(args.model){
$.myFighter = args.model;
}else{
alert('data not passed');
}
View:
<Alloy>
<Model id="myFighter" src="fighters" instance="true"/>
<Window>
<ScrollView layout="vertical">
<View layout="vertical">
<Label id="name" text="{$.myFighter.name}"/>
<Label id="nickname" text="{$.myFighter.nickname}"/>
<Label id="fighterId" text="{$.myFighter.id}"/>
</View>>
</ScrollView>>
</Window>
</Alloy>
Yet the text is always empty in my view, like if model was never assigned.
The controller is called from another controller, passing the model as an argument like this:
var win=Alloy.createController('detail',{model:detailObj});
win.getView().open();
What am I doing wrong? How can I do it right?

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Show list view from fetch in Svelte Native

I am fetching data from an JSON placeholder api
I want to iterate over each response and show it in my list view, however I just can't get it to work. It always just shows the waiting block and never gets to the fetch block.
I am quite new to nativescript as well so any help is appreciated.
{#await posts}
<label text="Waiting"></label>
{:then data}
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{#each data as item}
<label text="{item.id}. {item.body}" textWrap="true" />
{/each}
</Template>
</listView>
{:catch}
<label text="Error occured"></label>
{/await}
async function fetchPosts() {
let allPosts = await fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts');
return await allPosts.json();
}
let posts = fetchPosts();
Your iteration method unifies every item into a huge van. Simply change let:item to let:item={item}.
Code:
...
<Template let:item={item}>
<label text="{item.id}. {item.body}" textWrap="true" />
</Template>
...

NativeScript/Angular - Reactive form not working when using actionbar

First I implemented the code below.
app.component.html
<StackLayout [formGroup]="form">
<label text="Name"></label>
<TextField formControlName="Name"></TextField>
<label text="Last Name"></label>
<TextField formControlName="LastName"></TextField>
<button text="save" (tap)="save()"></button>
</StackLayout>
app.component.ts
public form: FormGroup;
constructor(private fb: FormBuilder){
this.form = this.fb.group({
"Name": ["", [Validators.required]],
"LastName": ["", [Validators.required]]
});
}
public save(){
console.log(JSON.stringify(this.form.value));
}
When I run the code above, it's everything alright. I get name and lastname correctly.
The problem occurs when I try to add an action bar to this code.
app.component.html
<ActionBar title="New" class="action-bar">
<ActionItem text="save" (tap)="save()"></ActionItem>
</ActionBar>
<StackLayout [formGroup]="form">
<label text="Name"></label>
<TextField formControlName="Name"></TextField>
<label text="Last Name"></label>
<TextField formControlName="LastName"></TextField>
<button text="save" (tap)="save()"></button>
</StackLayout>
The app.component.ts remains the same.
When I run this code and tap the button inside stacklayout I get name and lastname correctly but when I tap the ActionItem I get an empty string for both name and lastname. Am I missing something?
Your code looks just fine - in fact I have re=-tested it with this test application and everything works as expected on my side.
Side note: If testing on iOS keep in mind that subsequent console logs can be printed only once if they are identical. (this) so it might be that it appears that the log is not printed when in fact the action is done.

Nativescript -Open SideDrawer on button click

I am using telerik ui for native script. I need a toggle button at top to open the side menu. but I am not able to call the Showdrawer() as per the docs.
What I need is on button click side menu should open. I tried calling RadSideDrawer.prototype.showDrawer(), but failed.
Is there any other side menu available for Nativescript?
main-page.xml
<Page xmlns="http://www.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" xmlns:drawer="nativescript-telerik-ui/sidedrawer" loaded="pageLoaded">
<Page.actionBar>
<ActionBar>
<android>
<NavigationButton text="Go Back" android.systemIcon="ic_menu_moreoverflow" tap="showSideDrawer" />
</android>
</ActionBar>
</Page.actionBar>
<drawer:RadSideDrawer>
<drawer:RadSideDrawer.mainContent>
<StackLayout>
<Label text="{{ mainContentText }}" textWrap="true" />
</StackLayout>
</drawer:RadSideDrawer.mainContent>
<drawer:RadSideDrawer.drawerContent>
<StackLayout cssClass="drawerContent" style="background-color:white;">
<StackLayout cssClass="headerContent">
<Label text="Header" />
</StackLayout>
<StackLayout cssClass="drawerMenuContent">
<Label text="Item 1" style="color:black;" />
<Label text="Item 2" style="color:black;" />
<Label text="Item 3" style="color:black;" />
<Label text="Item 4" style="color:black;" />
</StackLayout>
</StackLayout>
</drawer:RadSideDrawer.drawerContent>
</drawer:RadSideDrawer>
</Page>
getting-started-model.js
var observableModule = require("data/observable");
var GettingStartedViewModel = (function (_super) {
__extends(GettingStartedViewModel, _super);
function GettingStartedViewModel() {
_super.call(this);
this.set("mainContentText", "SideDrawer for NativeScript can be easily setup in the XML definition of your page by defining main- and drawer-content. The component"
+ " has a default transition and position and also exposes notifications related to changes in its state.");
}
return GettingStartedViewModel;
})(observableModule.Observable);
exports.GettingStartedViewModel = GettingStartedViewModel;
function showSideDrawer(args) {
console.log("Show SideDrawer tapped.");
// Show sidedrawer ...
_super.prototype.showDrawer.call(this);
}
exports.showSideDrawer = showSideDrawer;
main page.js
var viewModelModule = require("./getting-started-model");
function pageLoaded(args) {
console.log("Page loaded");
var page = args.object;
page.bindingContext = new viewModelModule.GettingStartedViewModel();
}
exports.pageLoaded = pageLoaded;
You can take a look at this SDK examples that show the main functionality of the RadSideDrawer. As mentioned by #R Pelzer all you need to do is get the instance of the RadSideDrawer for example by using its id:
import drawerModule = require("nativescript-telerik-ui-pro/sidedrawer");
import frameModule = require("ui/frame");
var sideDrawer: drawerModule.RadSideDrawer = <drawerModule.RadSideDrawer>(frameModule.topmost().getViewById("sideDrawer"));
and call its showDrawer() method:
sideDrawer.showDrawer();
Are you calling the showSideDrawer function from code you didn't post? Are you sure you linked the tap button?
<Button tap="showSideDrawer" text="ToggleDrawer"/>
Maybe you can try to give the sideDrawer an Id and use this code.
var drawer = frameModule.topmost().getViewById("sideDrawer");
drawer.showDrawer();
You are getting undefined because no id was assigned to the drawer so to fix your problem assign an id to the sideDrawer <drawer:RadSideDrawer id="sideDrawer"> then you can call
var frame = require('ui/frame');
var drawer = frame.topmost().getViewById("sideDrawer");
function showSideDrawer(){
drawer.showDrawer(); // i prefer using .toggleDrawerState();
};
In my case, I missed inserting , as a result, there was a missing component when toggleDrawer was being called hence the error "TypeError: Cannot read property 'toggleDrawerState' of undefined".
Try inserting all the body component of the xml file in this might solve the issue.
Happy coding :))

Appcelerator Titanium View Proxy Memory Management

I've been struggling on how to handle memory allocations on my Titanium app (built for android [9.4MB], ios[2.8MB] and MobileWeb[5.4MB].
I have created a widget which will be use to open views from a menu selection.
<Alloy>
<Window id="mainWindow">
<View id="menuView">
<View id="vTop">
<!-- Header goes here -->
<TableView id="menuTable" />
</View>
<!-- footer message goes here -->
</View>
<View id="contentView">
<View id="nav">
<Label id="winTitle"/>
<View id='leftButtonView'>
<Label id="icoLeftButton" />
</View>
<View id='backButtonTitleView'>
<Label id="icoBack" />
<Label id="backButtonTitle" />
</View>
<View id='rightButtonView'>
<Label id="icoRightButton" />
</View>
</View>
<View id="mainView" layout="composite" />
</View>
</Window>
</Alloy>
Sample usage of this widget:
I was able to reduce the memory allocations of views by following this solution. I've applied this every time I open another view from menu selection.
(controller of my widget)
var memPool = Ti.UI.createWindow();
memPool.open();
memPool.hide();
memPool.close();
// Open view from menu selection
function openView(e) {
var cbAdd = function() {
var ctrl = Alloy.createController(e["url"]);
if (ctrl != null) {
setWindowTitle(e["wTitle"]);
setRightIco(ctrl.getRightIco()); //setting right label icon (IcoMoon font)
$.setRightNavClick(ctrl.getRightNavCb());
//Have to passed navGroup to be able to open other views
ctrl.winMain.navGroup = $;
//Close splash screen after layout
ctrl.winMain.addEventListener("postlayout", postLayout);
$.mainView.add(ctrl.winMain);
ctrl.init();
ctrl = null;
}
};
var cbRemove = function() {
//Remove all children from mainView; fn [commonjs]
fn.removeChildren($.mainView, cbAdd);
};
if ($.mainView.children.length > 0) {
cleanUp($.mainView.children[0]);
cbRemove();
} else
cbAdd();
}
function cleanUp(obj, cb) {
memPool.open();
memPool.hide();
memPool.setZIndex(-1);
memPool.add(obj);
memPool.close();
obj = null;
if (cb != null) cb();
}
Checking the result on XCode Instruments:
TiUIView is always reduced everytime I open other views from menu but TiUIViewProxy doesn't.
Sample View to be open: (consist of widgets)
<Alloy>
<View id="winMain">
<ScrollView id="form" layout="vertical">
<Widget id="fperiod" src="ph.com.test.controls.period" top="10" />
<Widget id="ftermid" src="ph.com.test.controls.key" label="Terminal No." top="20" />
<Widget id="fofficeid" src="ph.com.test.controls.combobox" label="Branch" />
<View id="btnReset" width="100%" height="50" layout="horizontal" top="20" bottom="20" backgroundColor="#B40026">
<Label class="resetFilter" />
<Label class="lblReset" />
</View>
</ScrollView>
</View>
</Alloy>
The following are the references that help alot:
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/116867/this-is-a-solution-to-your-memory-woes#answer-203729
http://www.tidev.io/2014/03/27/memory-management/
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/152656/tips-and-tricks-for-memory-management
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/140852/quick-memory-question--tiuiview-vs-tiuiviewproxy
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/151989/should-i-null-objects-to-release-memory-in-alloy
How to reduce the memory allocations of TiUIViewProxy? Do I have to also cleanup the views of widgets from its controller?
I have tried to cleanup the views of my widgets from its controller. Then, the TiUIViewProxy is somewhat reduced as per checking it on XCode Instruments but my problem is that my app suddenly crashes. I don't know why. Or I'm not just doing it right. Sample clean up function from my widget:
$.cview.remove($.formItemLabel);
$.cview.remove($.lblValue);
$.mView.remove($.cview);
//nulling controller variables goes here
mData = null;
animateLeft = null;
...
This is a really great article on memory management, I follow these guidelines for my own development purposes and highly recommend you read through this.
Memory Management
http://www.tidev.io/2014/03/27/memory-management/

Appcelerator alloy views slide

I am using the Alloy MVC framework over Titanium and want to make a slideshow between views. When I swipe on the screen, I want to display the next/previous view with a slide effect from right to left or left to right.
I am using this code:
A tab in my index.xml:
<Tab title="Bilan" icon="KS_nav_ui.png">
<Window title="Bilan" id="bilanTab" onSwipe="doBilanSwipe">
</Window>
</Tab>
The question view dynamically added and filled inside bilanTab:
<Alloy>
<Collection src="ReponsePossible">
<View id="questionContainer" class="container">
<Label id="questionText" />
<Button id="buttonNextQuestion">Question suivante</Button>
</View>
</Alloy>
and my two functions (3 with prevQuestion not printed here) inside index.js controller:
var previousQuestion;
var nextQuestion;
function doBilanSwipe(e){
if (e.direction == 'left'){
nextQuestion();
}
else if (e.direction == 'right'){
prevQuestion();
}
}
function nextQuestion(){
if (questionsCurrentIndex < questions.length-1){
questionsCurrentIndex++;
$.previous = previousQuestion;
$.next = Alloy.createController('question', questions.at(questionsCurrentIndex));
nextQuestion = $.next;
$.next.questionContainer.left = 320;
$.bilanTab.add($.next.questionContainer);
$.next.questionContainer.animate({left:0, duration:200});
$.previous.questionContainer.animate({left:-320, duration:200},function(){
$.previous = previousQuestion;
$.next = nextQuestion;
$.bilanTab.remove($.previous.questionContainer);
previousQuestion = $.next;
$.previous.destroy();
});
}
}
My problem is that first animation (first view moving to the left) is ok but after that, the next view just appear without any animation.
Could someone help? Thanks!
There is already the Titanium.UI.ScrollableView that does this exact thing, for all platforms.
Use it in Alloy like this:
<Alloy>
<Window id="win">
<ScrollableView id="scrollableView" showPagingControl="true">
<View id="view1" backgroundColor="#123" />
<View id="view2" backgroundColor="#246" />
<View id="view3" backgroundColor="#48b" />
</ScrollableView>
</Window>
</Alloy>
You can dynamically add views to it inside the controller like this:
$.scrollableView.addView(Ti.UI.createView({ // your custom attributes here});

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