How to enable tickering with TextField's? - java-me

I want that when the length of the text of a TextField is larger than the TextField's preferredWidth then the TextField should ticker. How to achieve that ?
Thank you very much

http://www.java.net/forum/topic/mobile-embedded/lwuit/how-enable-tickering-textfields

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Android UI Best Practices for Display Field turning into Input Field

I'm programming an android app with a list displaying images and some additional information like title, place, etc...
I'm new to the android ecosystem and wondering what are the best practices to implement a list element which normally displays the mentioned information and turns into input fields on a press on the listelement.
Do I have to draw the display elements (e.g. TextField) and the edit element on top of each other and set visible for either display or input? How to handle this generally? Or do I replace the layout responsible for the list element altogether?
I know that for the simple case of a text there is a simple solution for making the EditText field look like an uneditable TextField. I'm, however, looking for a general answer covering broader cases than just a TextField.
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you can make the elements of the listview a view flipper having two views.one you textview and other and edittext.
<ViewFlipper
...
<TextView
... />
<EditText
... />
/ViewFlipper>
Then in the onItemClickListener of the list items you can call flipper.showNext();
So, flipper works like, it shows only the first view defined in it and on the subsequent call of showNext() it displays the next view defined in it.
So if you have 2 elements in it, it will behave as the coin with two sides.
So in your situation there are a few ways you can achieve this.
First way is to build a layout which contains TextView and EditText and in first initialization your edit text won't be visible. And in your OnItemClick you have to hide your textview and show editext with value of your current data and option to edit.
The second way which I think is more user friendly is that you can show an AlertDialog after OnItemClick with custom layout where you can change the values and update the listview after user press Yes or do nothing is he selects No.
It depends on you which way you will do that, but I think the second option is the better one.

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If I have a xml file linear layout with CheckBox, TextView and ImageView and want this to display as scrollable list, having different name and different pictures in every rom of ListView , how can I do it. I am really confused, can you please help me understand. Thank you.
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http://appfulcrum.com/?p=311
http://www.softwarepassion.com/android-series-custom-listview-items-and-adapters/

Limiting Input Size ofTextField in j2me

I want to get only numerical inputs how can i do it using TextField
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I want to design one form that contains TextField and ListView in J2ME. But I don't know how to create this form. It is looked like Dictionary Form. Could anybody help me to do that?
You can't really do that with the basic UI controls in MIDP.
List can't contain TextField.
I would suggest looking at LWUIT since it has better controls.
Otherwise, if you don't need to display Images in your List, then you can use a Form containing both TextField and StringItem. Unfortunately, an ItemStateListener added to the Form will probably not give you as much information as a List.
Implementing the list yourself in a CustomItem means writing quite a bit of code but is doable.
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