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Programmaticaly force screen to light up in blackberry

I want my application according to some event, it comes to the background and light up the screen so the user notice that the blackberry has something. ...

Displaying videos on Blackberry Storm

Hi all, I am facing a problem in displaying videos in Storm..I am making use of BufferredPlayBackDemo that is shipped with JDE to stream and play the video from url..I am able to stream and play videos but the problem i am facing is that i am not able to show videos Full Screen..In potrait mode my videos remain Vertically centered on Sc...

Spell check in Blackberry

Hi, We are making a Web application for Blackberry (ASP.NET). The customer would like to have a spell checking feature when editing text fields in forms (textareas). Does anybody know how could this be done for a web application targeting the Blackberry platform? Thanks. ...

Video playback on Blackberry via custom DataSource

Hi Guys, We are working on multimedia application which play both audio and video files with possibility of their cashing to SDCard. For such purpose we are using custom DataSource looks a little bit similar as BufferePlayback sample in Blackberry SDK. And we found problem in video playing - when player is starting it's playing 2 sec a...

How to create a BlackBerry App that access low level hardware?

Hello all. I've written some BlackBerry apps, but now i'm trying to write one that must access the hardware (keyboard) in some low level way, and I can't seem to find a way to do it, nor any help to it in the 'official' boards. The thing is, I need to know when, at any time, the '$' key is pressed in the blackberry keyboard, so my app...

2nd Line is not getting displayed in the ListField (text wrapping is not happening) ... please advice

Here is the sample code: class MailBoxSampleListField extends MainScreen implements FolderListener, StoreListener { private static final int COLUMN_WIDTH_STATUS = 10; private static final int COLUMN_WIDTH_DATE = 150; private static final int COLUMN_WIDTH_NAME = 150; public ListField myList; private ListCallback myCallback; public Vect...

Hightlight image within a vertical manager

So i have 3 images in a vertical field manager and each image is clickable and proceeds to the correct url. all that works. the only problem at this time is that when i scroll (up or down), i don't know which image is currently focused. i don't know until the browser opens the corresponding url. so is there any way to get a border or a ...

Blackberry CheckboxField[] - FieldChangeListener - Stackoverflow error.

Hi, I have an array of CheckboxField[] elements that I need to dynamically initialize. My sample code is - class abc extends MainScreen implements FieldChangeListener { CheckboxField[] boxField; abc() { . . . boxField = new CheckboxField[length]; VerticalFieldManager vfm = new VerticalFie...

How to get the selected item as String in a Blackberry AutoCompleteField ?

How to get the selected Item as string when using a Blackberry AutoComplete Field. I am able to get the selected index currently. I am Overriding the onSelect method in the AutoCompleteField class as explained at Autocomplete Class Reference API JDE 5.0 Code Snippet below - AutoCompleteField autoCompleteField = new AutoCompleteField(...

upload file to FTP from Blackberry application

Hi, I am newbie to Blackberry application development. Can anyone have idea how to upload files to FTP from blackberry application? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim. ...

delay after clicking blackberry application icon

i can't seem to figure out the following situation: when i i click on my blackberry app icon (within the simulator), the application pops up quick, no problems. however, when i take that same code and push it to my blackberry, there is a few seconds of wait time after the icon has been clicked. can someone tell me how to minimize the...

Direct file download vs reading a file back as download

Is there any difference between creating a direct link to a file on a server, and doing something like reading the file from a location and setting the content type header then streaming back the data. I'm curious because I have a webserver that i'm using to download apps to a blackberry, if i create a file and have a direct link to tha...

Http Video streaming is not working in blackberry

Hi I want to play video in my app for which I will get urls from server. I got lot of codes but nothing was working. If I add the video as file (*.mp4) in src folder (how we used to add images in the source folder), then I could play the video by using the following code. Class playerDemoClass = Class.forName("com.rim.samples.multime...

How can I implement session variables in J2ME ?

Is it possible to use session in J2me? I am trying to develop a Blackberry application. I want to get some text from a class(page) and use in another class(page). May be something like the we do in app.net as: Class1 { session("myVariable") = Textbox.Text; } //a new class Class2 { TextBox2.Text = session("myVariable").toString(...

CSS3 support in mobile browsers

What, if any, support is there for CSS3 in mobile browsers? The specific browsers I'm curious about are the ones used in the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry phones. Any links to relevant resources would also be greatly appreciated. ...

How to collect data programmatically for the performed network traffic on BlackBerry?

I want to get the data about when a connection from the device is established, when the connection is terminated and how many bytes were transferred (in/out). I couldn't find proper listeners in the BB API. I found application that does this and I am wondering how this can be implemented? ...

How to record video file in bb using midlet

i want to know how to record a video in blackberry using midlet,any idea on this,help needed ...

OAuth Authorized Access Token question for Java

Hi everyone, I am developing an OAuth library to be used by BlackBerry mobile devices to connect to Netflix. I have successfully negotiated the request token and the access token. I have received the authorized token, the token secret, and the encrypted subscriber ID. Encrypted subscriber ID: T1BlCJtdcWMuF6gJEfue96_W.kZ_gW81h59KqLEfT1...

XML: Process large data

Hello What XML-parser do you recommend for the following purpose: The XML-file (formatted, containing whitespaces) is around 800 MB. It mostly contains three types of tag (let's call them n, w and r). They have an attribute called id which i'd have to search for, as fast as possible. Removing attributes I don't need could save around ...

How to get last modified date of BlackBerryContact ?

I need the last updated time of BlackBerryContact. I have not find any attribute supported by BlackBerryContact class for last modification date. I am using BlackBerry JDK 5.0.0. ...