Trying to create a custom cyclical horizontal manager which will work as follows. It will control several field buttons where the buttons will always be positioned so that the focused button will be in the middle of the screen. As it is a cyclical manager once the focus moves to the right or left button, it will move to the center of the...
Hey everyone, Has anyone ever heard of overriding too many classes in Java? Perhaps this issue is just related to BlackBerry development, but I was wondering if it is an issue in Java, too. Let's say I have the following: LabelField lblTitle = new LabelField(title) { protected void paint(Graphics graphics) { graphics.setCo...
Hi! I've just found a great sample of Facebook Connect on Blackberry by Eki Y. Baskoro, The following is a short HOWTO on using Facebook Connect on Blackberry. I created a simple Facade encapsulating the Facebook REST API as well as added 'rough' MVC approach for screen navigation. I have tested on JDE 4.5 using 8320 simulator. Thi...
I am writing an app for BlackBerry that utilizes a BlackBerry smartcard reader. There is not much documentation on the subject, so I'd really like if someone could give me starting examples. Basically, there is one RSA private key on the card plus a certificate (for paired public key). I would like to be able to encrypt/decrypt data and...
I notice most of the discussions about Blackberry database options are old, and generally not too informative. As of today, March 31st, 2010, what is the best, most universally supported, free database option available for Blackberry developers? I heard SQLite is available for JDE v5, but last I checked, that was still in beta, and I d...
I am currently working on my own implementation of a tab bar for a BlackBerry app, where each tab bar has a title that is right aligned (i.e. the last character in each should be the same distance from the right hand side of the screen). To work out where to draw the text I am using the following calculation: screen width - advance of t...
Is there a way to programmatically enable Javascript in Blackberry Browser? In my application I have to open an URL in Blackberry browser but for that I need to first enable Javascript. I do not wish to use Browser Field as the content displayed in it doesn't look good. Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated. ...
I'm working on how to parse Twitter's JSON response using JSON-ME. For example: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search foo({"results":[{"profile_image_url":"http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/762620209/drama_queen-6989_normal.gif","created_at":"Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:35:10 +0000","from_user":"TWEETSDRAMA","to_user_id...
Does any one know about opensource network monitor tool for black berry? Abdul Khaliq ...
Hello, How do I save a remote file (i.e. http://example.com/somefile.pdf) to blackberry's local disk from my custom app Thanks ...
Hello All... I have gone through with the tutorial documents for blackberry development. At every place they have showed the features with eclipse plugins. So, I would like to know that which are the tools I need to download If I want to start development using NetBeans 6.8 (or 6.5) ? And what is the procedure to do so ? Thanks in ad...
hey i have displayed a pop-up screen when i click on a menu item now i want to close that pop-up screen when user presses escape key.but it does not work and remain stuck,till i click on a button on the pop=up screen. how can i achieve that???? filter is my pop-up screen my code is ::: protected boolean keyChar(char c, int status...
Is there a way to replicate the Search bar + search display controller in iPhone on a blackberry? ...
Hello all I'm trying to create a page where a list of items are displayed in a row where there are multiple columns on the left, but only one on the right, encased within a horizontialFieldManager. Currently I have the following code to attempt to do the following: VerticalFieldManager mainScreenManager = new VerticalFieldManager(); ...
public class PlayText extends Thread { private int duration; private String text; private PlayerScreen playerscrn; public PlayText(String text, int duration) { this.duration = duration; this.text = text; this.playerscrn = (PlayerScreen)UiApplication.getUiApplication().getActiveScreen(); } ...
So I'm building a blackberry app and was wondering if there is any good documentation on deployment/release best practices? Blackberry's "A70 – How to Deploy and Distribute Applications" document is kind of lacking. I guess I'm looking for answers for the following question (Specifically for Over-The-Air aka OTA): I'm building an app ...
I wrote a first sample Hello World Program for BB in eclipse using the plugin and everything worked fine. But then I wrote another app, not much different from the first and I went to deploy it and the simulator opened but only the first application was there. I tried loading the .cod file from inside the simulator but that didn't work e...
Hello everybody I have created a table layout manager by extending a manager. Every thing is working fine but when I tried to create and set rounded border by using BorderFactory it is actually displaying a square instead of rounded square, please help me by send your valuable suggestions. Even though I have tried to add that border to a...
Hello everybody I am trying to create a screen (to see the image click here) I have set it's backround image also created required list components which are click able by extending Field class. Now my problem is I am not able to set that rounded white color as backround of the list. Please help me. And also because I am new to the blackb...
Hi,I am developing my custom EditField and i want to know how to create spacing in EditField I determined the width of EditField using width=this.getFont().getAdvance("000"); Since i require the entry of 3 digits,but i require some spacing in the front and back of my editfield and how to get spacing.Is there any option to do this? O...