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Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695008
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. How to Get Up and Running with Titanium 2. How to Make an Interface FREE CHAPTER 3. How to Design Titanium Apps 4. Gluing Your App Together with Events, Variables, and Callbacks 5. It's All About Data 6. Cloud-enabling Your Apps 7. Putting the Phone Gadgets to Good Use 8. Creating Beautiful Interfaces 9. Spread the Word with Social Media 10. Sending Notifications 11. Testing and Deploying 12. Analytics 13. Making Money from Your App Git Integration Glossary
Pop Quiz Answers Index

Labels


Labels are used to display text. Here is an example call to create a label.

var label1 = Titanium.UI.createLabel({
    color:'#999',
    text:'I am Window 1',
    font:{fontSize:20,fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue'},
    textAlign:'center',
    width:Ti.UI.FILL,
});

The properties are explained in the following table:

Attribute

Description

color

The color of the label text. This can be specified as a predefined color name ('green') or hex triplet; for example, '#FFF' refers to white and '#999' refers to light gray.

text

The text to display.

font

The font properties. Note that the font properties are specified in JSON format. Even if you are only defining the fontName property, it should still be JSON formatted otherwise it will be ignored. JSON is discussed in Chapter 3, How to Design Titanium Apps.

Properties that can be specified are:

  • fontFamily

  • fontSize

  • fontStyle

  • fontWeight

textAlign

The justification of the text within the defined size of the label.

width...

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