Hi,
I'm trying to have a full screen UI with a fix header ( a manager with some fields) and a scrollable contents (a list of custom field). The idea is to emulate a kind of scrollable list.
For this I made a custom VerticalFieldManager that accept a maxHeight (the screen height - the header height).
I got the following problems:
- The scroll arrows do not show up (ever)
- On OS 4.7 (Storm), I can scroll lower that the last item, until having nothing on my screen but the header.
My code need to compile with the JDE 4.2.1 & 4.7 and to run on Pearl and Storm. (at worst I could have two version of this class)
I suspect the two problems are related. I probably do something wrong. I looked at a few example/forum and always found similar solution/code. Do you guys can tell me what I did wrong?
/**
* custom class, so we can set a max height (to keep the header visible)
*/
class myVerticalFieldManager extends VerticalFieldManager{
private int maxHeight = 0;
myVerticalFieldManager(int _maxHeight){
super(
//this provoc an "empty scrollable zone" on Storm
// but if you don't put it, on other OS, the vertical manager does not scroll at all.
Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLL
| Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR
);
maxHeight = _maxHeight;
}
protected void sublayout(int width, int height){
super.sublayout(width, getPreferredHeight());
setExtent(width, getPreferredHeight());
}
public int getPreferredWidth() {
return Graphics.getScreenWidth();
}
/**
* allow the manager to use all the given height. (vs auto Height)
*/
public boolean forceMaxHeight = false;
public int getPreferredHeight() {
if (forceMaxHeight) return maxHeight;
int m = super.getPreferredHeight();
if (m > maxHeight) m = maxHeight;
return m;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
protected boolean isUpArrowShown(){
//TODO: does not seem to work (4.2.1 emulator & 4.5 device). (called with good return value but the arrows are not painted)
int i = getFieldWithFocusIndex();
//Trace("isUpArrowShown " + i);
return i > 0;
// note: algo not correct, cause the up arrow will be visible event when no field are hidden.
// but not so bad, so the user "know" that he can go up.
}
protected boolean isDownArrowShown(){
int i = getFieldWithFocusIndex();
return i < getFieldCount();
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// note : since 4.6 you can use
// http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/4.6.0api/net/rim/device/api/ui/decor/Background.html
public int myBackgroundColor = 0xffffff;
protected void paint(Graphics g){
g.setBackgroundColor(myBackgroundColor);
// Clears the entire graphic area to the current background
g.clear();
super.paint(g);
}
}
any helps is welcome.