Comments on: Mobile Webapps – iUI Framework Extensions

By: ry

ry — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:19:49 +0000

I don’t understand passing variables between screens with window.iui_ext.getItem(‘key’). I’ve looked at your rails example with the js file that was included but I’m not sure I’m understanding the implementation.

Can you shed any light on that?

By: werner

werner — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:35:17 +0000

I’m looking for a way to change the order of the calendar days to:
Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun
Thanks!!

By: Tom Godber

Tom Godber — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:18:57 +0000

Stuart – Yes, it certainly can be adapted that way. I don’t have time myself right now but it would not be difficult.

James – the iUI extensions are in the current 0.40 beta, thanks to Sean who integrated them. The rail app itself will definitely see the light of day, but the timing is down to our rail customers!

By: James Eilers

James Eilers — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:00:40 +0000

Looks great. Any chance your going to release it?

By: Stuart Avera

Stuart Avera — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0000

First, the extention is great! Good job! Is there anyway to modify so that I can should multiple options from the select list. To use your example, choose multiple railcards? I need to be able to select multiple items from a list.

Thanks!!

By: Sean Gilligan

Sean Gilligan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:30:01 +0000

I just posted a blog entry about iUI referring to your beautifully crafted patch, and then realized you hadn't actually submitted it as a patch. I'm working on extensibility for version 0.40 and am using an approach very similar to yours for the event mechanism. Would love to see your work become an official extension.

By: Sean Gilligan

Sean Gilligan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:48:25 +0000

Cool Stuff, Tom!

I’ll be following up with you on the iui-developers Google Group.

By: Tom Godber

Tom Godber — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:58:56 +0000

Hi Tamlyn, yes we are doing similar things… one thing to be aware of, traintimes.org.uk scrapes timetable data from NRE in a way which is (probably) technically illegal, in a similar manner to how the old iPhone app My Rail Lite used to do it before it was pulled – the whole thing was quite controversial! There’s plenty about this on the web if you want to know more eg. http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/national-rail-enquiries-defends-free-iphone-app-cutoff-decision-589221 – but as a general rule, I’d be careful on this sort of thing – just because one site gives information away for free does not mean it is licencing others to reuse that data!

By: Tamlyn

Tamlyn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:55:04 +0000

Hi Tom, I found this post while searching for a date picker for iUI to use in, oddly enough, a train timetable app! I'm toying with the idea of making an iPhone optimised version of Matthew Somerville's traintimes.org.uk but it looks like you're doing something quite similar. Drop me a mail if you get a chance.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:12:17 +0000

This looks great and I think it would be a great addition to the framework, especially in a spot where I think it’s a bit lacking. At a minimum, it would really make a project I’m working on right now a lot nicer.