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Thank you Doesn't getPreferredheight just return the preferred height rather than setting it? I already have the screen height saved in a variable called "screenHeight" and am now overriding the gerPreferredheight function as follows.

public int getPreferredHeight()
            {
                return screenHeight;
            }

That doesn't seem to work, though. Complete code for the new manager is as follows.

        class NewVerticalFieldManager extends VerticalFieldManager 
        {
            NewVerticalFieldManager() 
            { 
                super();
            }
            public int getPreferredHeight()
            {
                return screenHeight;
            }
            
            protected void paintBackground(Graphics graphics) 
            {        
                // Sets the BackgroundColor
                graphics.setBackgroundColor(Color.MEDIUMAQUAMARINE);
                
                // Clears the entire graphic area to the current background
                graphics.clear();
                //super.paint(graphics);
            }
        }

I also tried to have gerPreferredHeight return 240 directly, which is the secreen size on blackberry 8700. Still nothing. What am i missing?