Java Development

[BlueBerry1988]

I need a VerticalFieldManager that occupies the left half of the screen. I thought that I could simply create an instance of VerticalFieldManager and then call its setExtent(int width, int height) to set its size. Unfortunately, setExtent is a protected function and can only be called from derived class. So that brings up two questions:

1. Do I need to create a customized layout manager for such a simple matter? All I need is a VerticalFieldManager only that it manages left half of the screen instead of the whole screen. 

2. Why is setExtent a protected method? Wouldn't it be more convenient to make it a public method? There must be some reason behind...

Thanks

[mreed · Accepted solution]

either:

1) override the VFM, override sublayout() and call setExtent()

2) override sublayout() in the manager holding the VFM and call layoutChild()

[mnpaslay]

either:

1) override the VFM, override sublayout() and call setExtent()

2) override sublayout() in the manager holding the VFM and call layoutChild()

How do you do these things?  I know how to make a whole new custom manager, but is there some simple way to just overide the protected method?  I would like to create verticalfieldmanagers of a field width...

The built in class verticalfieldmanager is fine, except i want a fixed width...

Thanks!

[Rajat_10Sep]

Hi,

Check this link it will help you out in resolving your issue. 

Search this link with CustomLayoutManager

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/developer_labs.jsp#tab_tab_jde

Have a look at this link also

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=java_dev&message.id=5624&query.id=201...

Please let me know if this information helped you or not.