5ml User's Guide

5ml User's Guide
Action Description Element/SDK Required
Set Text
Share on Facebook
Show
Replaces the text that appears on a text-based element with new text
that is defined along with this action. (For the Text Input, Text Area,
and Password Input elements this action replaces the text in the
Prompt Text field. For the Button and Label elements this action
replaces the text in the Text field. For the Text element this action
replaces all the text entered into the HTML Editor.
Opens a browser window with the Facebook Share this link page and
the defined link to share.
Shows a hidden page element. Use in combination with the Hide
action.
Text, Label, Text Area, Text Input,
Button, and Password Input.
Show Current Location Causes the current location to display on the Map View element. Map View
Show Next View Shows the next view in a View Set element. View Set
Show Page
Shows the selected page, with selected transition effect and time.
Show Previous View Shows the previous view in a View Set element. View Set
Show View Shows the defined view. View Set
Stop Media Stops playing the selected media. Audio, Video
Take a photo Takes a photo with the mobile device. SDK integration
Turn Flashlight Off Turns the mobile device's flashlight off. SDK integration
Turn Flashlight On Turns the mobile device's flashlight on. SDK integration
Twitter Post
Opens a browser window with the Twitter What's Happening page and
the defined Tweet Text and the account to follow.
Vibrate Device Vibrates the mobile device. SDK
Using the 5ml Proxy API
This section describes the 5ml Proxy API and provides example implementations. Using the 5ml Proxy API, the 5ml
developer can access any kind of remote web service, through a GET or POST HTTP request. Because some public web
services do not allow AJAX calls from third-party sites to access the web service, 5ml uses a proxy to access the web
service. When you export a project, 5ml provides a proxy.php script in the project package, which you can use to handle
the proxy request, provided the web server hosting the project supports PHP.
You can write custom code to obtain data from a 5ml widget's attributes to pass to the web service using the 5ml Proxy
API. Similarly you can write custom code to obtain data from a web service and insert it into a 5ml widget's attributes. For
example, the mobile device user enters the zip code value "94111" into a entry form and clicks on a button to retrieve a
list of local concerts from a web service. The user clicks on a button to retrieve the price for a ticket. The web service
sends the price, for example, "$20," and the price is passed to a button widget's caption attribute. The user sees the
button rendered with the "$20" value.
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