I think I may have found a bug. I was having difficulty creating an XML document within a folder for one of the tutorials. It would allow me to create a file, but the ".xml" suffix was missing and the editor didn't know that it was an editable file.

I then created an FTP connection and manually uploaded an XML file that I created locally on my computer. After doing so, the editor recognized what type of file it was thus I was able to edit the file.

I am loving the interface so far. A suggestion for the Wire editor. So far the web based editor does not bother me. The simple color coding between the attributes and tags works just fine for me. However, one thing that would be really nice to keep your code nice and tidy would be the ability to use a keyboard shortcut to increase or decrease the indent size.

Just a thought.

So I have a video that is particularly wide. I want some of the sides to be cropped off so that it fills the whole screen vertically. Setting scaling mode to yes is not doing the trick.

I tried making the width wider than the screen and this helps to make the video take up the whole screen, but then the controls are also wider than the screen making it impossible to pause the video.

Is there anything I can do other than getting a differently proportioned video to begin with?

I just set a seekto value of 72 on my videocontrol element and it starts playing at 1:17 instead of 1:12.

Is it always off by 5 seconds?

Is is possible to use video control to pause a video? Or, if stopping a video is there a way to record the position in the video where you were when the user stopped the video?

Could someone provide an example of how to use the texttemplate tag?

I need to make a slider that changes the alpha on an image. Is there a tag for sliders? Or how would you approach this?

When I'm working in Studio, it would be nice to have an indication of which file is selected. Maybe highlighting the selected file in the left column, or listing the file name above the code editing window or something.

When using the Scale action to grow an image from a size of zero to its original size, it appears the image grows from the top left corner. Is it possible to grow the image from the center?

In conduit I am receiving an Alert I can't get past.

Alert
This wire does not yet have orientation settings applied. Please visit your app in the web studio to set the orientations.

I had been able to get the tutorial to show several time in conduit before the message started appearing.

In the web studio I don't see a button where I can save changes on that tab. Whenever I do go back to the tab it looks like orientations are set.

I am running Chrome on Windows 7.

I have updated the an app and can see my changes in Conduit. However, one of my coworkers does not have Conduit but does have the old version of the app. How do I get the app on his iPad to update?

I am following the PDF Tutorial and I am receiving error when I try to upload a copy of the constituion.pdf file.

When I try to upload the document to the root folder it says

Error
No response was given from the uploader, this may mean that "mod_security" is active on teh server and one of the rules in mod_security has cancelled this request. If you can not disable mod_security, you may need to use the NoFlash Uploader.

when I try to upload into the documents folder it says

Error
Server response: string(52) "The requested output type, txt, is not supported.txt.

I created a new project at content.rarewire.com and I refreshed my Conduit app, but my new project is not showing up. Am I missing a step?

Is there a way to make a pager paginate in vertical, but not in horizontal mode?

Wire provides a simple, yet effective <text> tag for displaying text anywhere in your app. However, the underlying native component that the engine uses to render the text does not support rich text formatting such as bolding, underlining etc. So what is a developer to do when complex text formatting is required?

HTML!

The <web> tag has some important attributes that can be provided that make it great for rednering all sorts of complex text- anything you can see in a browser can be replicated. Keep in mind- <web> tags are not locked in to the full dimensions of the device screen like Safari- you can provide size, width, and position just like any other object tag in Wire.

The key to making beautiful text that blends in seemlessly with your app is the transparent="yes" and ignoretouches="yes" parameters. This makes the <web> regions see-through and it won't scroll and zoom (because of the ignoretouches). Lets take a look at a simple Wire and the HTML file that drives the text:

First the wire. This one is a little fancier that just some simple text on the screen. It waits for the user to tap somewhere on the screen and then slowly scales up the web object while fading it in and spinning it around for a dramatic effect:


<wire>
<datasources>

<!-- datasources go here -->

</datasources>

<styles>

<!-- styles go here -->

</styles>

<classes>

<!-- classes go here -->

</classes>

<main>
<panel name="background" width="100%" height="100%" background="#888888" onclick="test" clicktarget="../text"></panel>
<web name="text" file="formatted.html" width="75%" height="100" align="center" valign="center" pagetofit="no" ignoretouches="yes" transparent="yes" shadowradius="3" shadowopacity=".6" shadowxoffset="3" shoadowyoffest="3" alpha="0"></web>
<!-- main wire hierarchy -->

</main>

<actions>

<action name="test">

<scale width="100%" height="100%" time="3"/>

<scale width="1" height="1" align="center" valign="center"/>
<scale width="75%" height="100" align="center" valign="center" time="3" delay=".1"/>
<alpha value="1" time="3" delay=".1"/>
<rotate degrees="720" time="3" delay=".1"/>
</action>
<!-- actions go here -->

</actions>
</wire>


Here is the HTML file that I included in my app in the root folder called formatted.html (notice the file parameter in the <web> tab).



<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Drop Caps 1</title>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
body {
font: 100%/1.5 arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.firstletter {
float: left;
font-size: 3em;
line-height: 1;
font-weight: bold;
margin-right: 0.2em;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<p><span class="firstletter">O</span>nce upon a time in a blueberry bubblegum land covered in pink violets that swayed to the rhythm of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" there lived a podgy yet attractive raspberry fairy called Bedooda. Bedooda was as tall as a button bush and as intelligent as a peach mystic from the Unscented Hills (not the Scented Hills - the mystics there were not too bright) and was an adored member of the raspberry family but she was an unhappy raspberry fairy. As unhappy as a lost sunfish from the Sweet Spaghetti River.</p>

</body>

</html>


The HTML renders a nice drop cap- and you might see how you could add any other type of formatting required.

And that's pretty much it! You have a nicely formatted piece of text that you can manipulate in the same manner as you would any other object it wire.