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Java Development

Creating a user interface

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Exercise

 

Write an application for the BlackBerry® device that uses BlackBerry user interface (UI) components, such as drop-down lists.

 

Objectives

  • Discover how to use the IDE.
  • Discover how a BlackBerry application is organized.
  • Discover some of the basics of the BlackBerry user interface APIs.

Setup

 

  1. Extract CityInfo_Incomplete.zip
  2. In the IDE, open the cityinfo.jdw workspace
  3. Open the CityInfo.java source

Tasks

  1. In the CityInfoScreen constructor, add code to display a drop-down list with the following options: “Los Angeles”, “Chicago,” and “NewYork.”
  2. Add a More Info menu item that displays the InfoScreen.
  3. In the InfoScreen inner class, add code to display fields for population, state, and sight-seeing information.
  4. Add code to display information depending on the city that the user selected. (Tip: use the select variable that has already been defined).

Check Your Work

 

From CityInfo_Complete.zip

 

Review

 

In this exercise, you discovered the following things:

  • How to use an ObjectChoiceField to create a drop-down list
  • How to create custom menu items
  • How to add text to fields depending on a user selection
Attachment 2-CreatingUserInterface.zip 35 KB
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