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Titanium.UI.PickerColumn

viewAndroidiPhoneiPadmacOSsince 0.9

Extends Titanium.UI.ViewTitanium.Proxy

A picker column, representing a selectable group of items in a Titanium.UI.Picker.

Use the Titanium.UI.createPickerColumn method to create a picker column control. In an Alloy application, you can use a <PickerColumn> element inside a <Picker> element. You can also use <Column> as a shorthand for <PickerColumn> (see Examples).

On Android, the useSpinner property must be enabled to support multiple columns.

See Titanium.UI.Picker for further examples of usage.

Examples

Multi-Column Picker

Create a two-column, platform-specific style, picker and automatically select a row in each column.

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
  backgroundColor: 'white',
  exitOnClose: true,
  fullscreen: false,
  title: 'Use picker to make selection'
});

var fruit = [ 'Bananas', 'Grapes', 'Blueberries', 'Strawberries' ];
var color = [ 'blue', 'red', 'yellow', 'white' ];

var column1 = Ti.UI.createPickerColumn();

for(var i=0, ilen=fruit.length; i<ilen; i++){
  var row = Ti.UI.createPickerRow({
    title: fruit[i]
  });
  column1.addRow(row);
}

var column2 = Ti.UI.createPickerColumn();

for(var i=0, ilen=color.length; i<ilen; i++){
  var row = Ti.UI.createPickerRow({
    title: color[i]
  });
  column2.addRow(row);
}

var picker = Ti.UI.createPicker({
  columns: [column1, column2],
  selectionIndicator: true,
  useSpinner: true, // required in order to use multi-column pickers with Android
  top:50
});

function pickerDefaults(obj){
  // on iOS, must be after picker has been rendered
  picker.setSelectedRow(0, 2, false);
  picker.setSelectedRow(1, 3, false);
}

win.add(picker);

var isAndroid = Ti.Platform.osname === 'android';

if(isAndroid){
  pickerDefaults(picker);
}

win.open();

if(!isAndroid){
  setTimeout(function(){
    pickerDefaults(picker);
  }, 1500);
}

Alloy XML Markup

Previous example as an Alloy view.

multicolumnpicker.xml

<Alloy>
    <Window id="win" backgroundColor="white" exitOnClose="true" fullscreen="false"
        title="Use picker to make selection">

        <Picker id="picker" top="50" selectionIndicator="true" useSpinner="true">
            <PickerColumn id="column1">
                <PickerRow title="Bananas"/>
                <PickerRow title="Grapes"/>
                <PickerRow title="Blueberries"/>
                <PickerRow title="Strawberries"/>
            </PickerColumn>
            <!-- Picker shorthand notation -->
            <Column id="column2">
                <Row title="blue"/>
                <Row title="red"/>
                <Row title="yellow"/>
                <Row title="white"/>
            </Column>
        </Picker>
    </Window>
</Alloy>

multicolumnpicker.js:

$.picker.setSelectedRow(0, 2, false);
$.picker.setSelectedRow(1, 3, false);

Properties 11

apiName

Stringsince Android 3.2.0, iPhone 3.2.0, iPad 3.2.0, macOS 9.2.0read-only

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

The name of the API that this proxy corresponds to.

bubbleParent

Booleansince Android 3.0.0, iPhone 3.0.0, iPad 3.0.0, macOS 9.2.0

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Indicates if the proxy will bubble an event to its parent.

Default: true

rowCount

Numberread-only

Number of rows in this column.

Rows of this column.

While this property is currently writable on Android, changing its value is strongly discouraged.

tooltip

Stringsince 12.1.0iOS 15.0+

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

The default text to display in the control's tooltip.

Methods 7

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Adds the specified callback as an event listener for the named event.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
nameString

Name of the event.

callbackCallback<Titanium.Event>

Callback function to invoke when the event is fired.

4 fields
bubbles Boolean

True if the event will try to bubble up if possible.

cancelBubble Boolean

Set to true to stop the event from bubbling.

source Object

Source object that fired the event.

type String

Name of the event fired.

Adds a row to this column.

In an Alloy application you can use one or more <PickerRow> (or <Row>) elements inside a <PickerColumn> (or <Column>) element.

<Alloy>
    <PickerColumn id="hour">
        <PickerRow title="10"/>
        <PickerRow title="11"/>
        <PickerRow title="12"/>
    </PickerColumn>
    <!-- Picker shorthand notation -->
    <Column id="minutes">
        <Row title="15"/>
        <Row title="30"/>
        <Row title="45"/>
        <Row title="00"/>
    </Column>
</Alloy>
Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
rowTitanium.UI.PickerRow

A row to add.

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Fires a synthesized event to any registered listeners.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
nameString

Name of the event.

event?Dictionary

A dictionary of keys and values to add to the Titanium.Event object sent to the listeners.

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Removes the specified callback as an event listener for the named event.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
nameString

Name of the event.

callbackCallback<Titanium.Event>

Callback function to remove. Must be the same function passed to addEventListener.

4 fields
bubbles Boolean

True if the event will try to bubble up if possible.

cancelBubble Boolean

Set to true to stop the event from bubbling.

source Object

Source object that fired the event.

type String

Name of the event fired.

Events 4

rotate

since 12.7.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a two finger rotation.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
rotateNumber

Rotation in degrees.