Java Development

[berkvens852]

Hello, I'm looking to center a button on the middle of the screen. From what I've seen I should be able to do this by adding the HorizontalFieldManager into the VerticalFieldManager:

HorizontalFieldManager mensButton =

new HorizontalFieldManager(Field.FIELD_HCENTER);

VerticalFieldManager mensButton2 =

new VerticalFieldManager(Field.FIELD_VCENTER);

mens

= new ButtonField("Mens Sports");

mensButton2.add(mensButton);

mensButton2.add(mens);

For some reason this only centers the button horizontally, and not vertically. I've tried tried inculdign USE_ALL_HEIGHT, but still doesn't work. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Eugen]

If your target 5+ OS I would use AbsoluteFieldManager and calculated position myself.

Thanks,

Eugen

[arkadyz · Accepted solution]

Few things:

1) You indeed need your HFM to have USE_ALL_HEIGHT.

2) Since your Screen most probably has a VerticalFeildManager as a delegate (or a main manager, in case of MainScreen), add mensButton2 to mensButton and mensButton to the Screen, not the other way around.

3) If you use MainScreen, make sure it has NO_VERTICAL_SCROLL style bit!

Anyway, this question has been asked so many times it's not even funny. Unfortunately, it's not easy to use "Search" feature for this - "center screen" or "middle screen" or other stuff brings way too many articles, most of which are irrelevant.

I've recently gave some detailed explanation about this, though - look at this post:

How to center horizontally and vertically...

Good luck!

[berkvens852]

Thanks arkadyz! After playing with this a bit I got it to work