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Introduction to Rhodes Platform
It has been a busy few weeks since my post supporting a few regional developer events as well as promoting this community (which by the way, I am proud to say we are very close to hitting the 1000 user mark). One of the areas I have been spending time…
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RhoElements Video Tutorials
I am blogging to you from our AppForum in Barcelona Spain, where we have been getting some really great feedback on RhoElements. There is a lot of interest in HTML5 and the ability to harness the power of the device capabilities all from within HTML and…
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Part 2b - AppForum Dev Lab - Save Scan Data
Before we get into saving the scan data, let's first load the breakout session data into a drop down so the user can select the presentation that they will be scanning attendees for.
Let's open up the index.html file and replace our placeholder inside…
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Part 2 - AppForum Dev Lab - WebSQL
So far we have a basic HTML file (our app) that has placeholders for content and simple javascript functions for enabling the scanner and handling the decode event. In this part of the series, we will discuss WebSQL storage and incorporate that into our…
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Adding Finger Scrolling To Your RhoElements App
You may have read a feature which allows you to do some pretty amazing things, but in this post I will be showing you how to get some simple finger gesturing into you application where you may require scrolling. Right now, the current RhoElements…
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Participating Right From Email
So most of us probably still live very much in an email world. You may love facebook, twitter, etc to communicate with your friends and family, but from a business point of view email is still king. So here are some tips for getting the most out of…
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Staying Informed
So you have registered for a Launchpad account, now what you say? The next thing you should do is follow the spaces you are interested in. Before we get into that, all content in Launchpad is centered around the concept of a Space. Within each space,…
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3 Great Ways to Learn in Launchpad
There is definitely a lot of great information in Launchpad. It spans across the 3 main types of content in the system Blogs, Discussions and Documents. Here are some really quick ways to browse through the content to learn something new each day:…
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Launching Multiple RhoElements Applications
If you read the post, you already know that you configure RhoElements to launch into an application by changing the parameter in the Config.XML. This location is either on the local file system (ex: file://RhoApps/index.html) or it could be on a…
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Custom Gestures: Going Beyond Swipe
So by now we have all grown accustomed to flicking our fingers around with wild abandon on our phone to just about do everything. Do you even remember what a stylus is used for? Unless you are working with big heavy gloves on, or need a stylus for…
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Logging to a remote location
When are developing a RhoElements application one thing that may come in handy is to enabling logging to your PC while you are testing the application on the actual device. To do that, you need to do two things:
1) Enable Logging in the Config.XML
2)…
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RhoElements - Building Your First App - Part 1 Overview
In this series, I will guide you in developing your very first RhoElements application. For an we will use an actual app that we developed for our developer conference. The application we will be building is an Event Attendee Tracker. For the Developer…
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RhoElements - Building Your First App - Part 2 Getting Started
Before we get into coding, let's first download and install RhoElements. After downloading, simply launch the executable and walk through the install wizard. If you connect your device to your computer RhoElements will automatically be installed.
If…
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RhoElements - Building Your First App - Part 3 Hello Scan
In this part of the blog series, we will build a simple Hello Scan application and run it on the mobile device. By now you should have and to point to the application that we are going to build. In this section we will setup placeholders for our…
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RhoElements - Building Your First App - Part 4 WebSQL Setup
In the of the , we have a basic HTML file (our app) that has placeholders for content and simple javascript functions for enabling the scanner and handling the decode event. In this part of the series, we will discuss WebSQL storage and incorporate…
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RhoElements - Building Your First App - Part 5 Saving Scan Data
In the of this , we created javascript functions to create the database and associated tables we will be using. We also loaded the Developer Conference session data into the table. In this part of the series, we will basically complete the…
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