Cascades Development

[phofman]

Hello,

Is there any possibility to create an UI similar to BlackBerry Hub application?

I with to have a clickable TitleBar with a DropDown emulation, where I could put my own controls. Currently I haven't found any suitable solutions. The closest one is just using a regular DropDown controls, but this one can't be branded unfortunatelly.

Thanks.

[lewellyn]

As of this moment, I do not believe most of us have BlackBerry Hub. This makes it really hard for us to answer the actual question, aside from "you probably want to look into custom controls."

[itsaboutcode]

phofman I blieve you are talking about the Titlebar like in Calendear application?

[phofman]

itsaboutcode - yes, that is exactly the control I would like to add to my application.

Any idea, how I could achieve it?

The regular TitleBar doesn't support drop-down kind, only segmented. At the same time I am pretty sure, it's impossible to override drawing of DropDown control to make it look like that.

[itsaboutcode]

phofman

I have no idea how it will be done, though I will love to know that.

[lewellyn]

You would need a custom control. As you can guess, that particular control would be very hard to genericize enough to be useful to more than a small minority of developers.

So, they gave us a way to write our own custom components! https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/documentation/ui/custom_components/index.html is a good starting place to read up on them.

While not the control you're looking for, the Speed Writer sample on Github shows how custom controls work.

[phofman]

Yes, looks like developing a custom control is the only way to go and wait until RIM provides own.