A: 

unless you want to override the how the listfield paints or create your own wrapper, you will always have this issue, this is because each line is always visible when scrolling. Try using labelfield instead.

Russ Bradberry
+2  A: 

There isn't an official API way of doing this, as far as I know, but it can probably be fudged through a clever use of NullField(Field.FOCUSABLE), which is how many custom BlackBerry UIs implement forced focus behavior.

One approach would be to derive each "list item" from a class that interlaces focusable NullFields with the visible contents of the list item itself -- this would essentially force the scrolling system to "jump" at smaller intervals rather than the large intervals dictated by the natural divisions between the list items, and would have the side benefit of not modifying the visible positioning of the contents of the list item.

Andrey Butov
+2  A: 

Assuming you want the behavior that the user scrolls down 1 'click' of the trackball, and the next item is then highlighted but instead of an immediate scroll jump you get a smooth scroll to make the new item visible (like in Google's Gmail app for BlackBerry), you'll have to roll your own component.

The basic idea is to subclass VerticalFieldManager, then on a scroll (key off the moveFocus method) you have a separate Thread update a vertical position variable, and invalidate the manager multiple times.

The thread is necessary because if you think about it you're driving an animation off of a user event - the smooth scroll is really an animation on the BlackBerry, as it lasts longer than the event that triggered it.

I've been a bit vague on details, and this isn't a really easy thing to do, so hopefully this helps a bit.

Anthony Rizk
This makes sense. One question though, does that then mean I disable scrolling on the ListField itself OR do I scroll the verticalfieldmanager and then let the ListField receive its scroll event so that the control may internally manage itself accordingly (knowing what row is selected...)?
AtariPete