[santa kruz]

Hi,

I'm having a lot of trouble trying to display two EditFields side-by-side. I try the following:

HorizontalFieldManager hfm = new HorizontalFieldManage(HORIZONTAL_SCROLL);
BasicEditField befA = new BasicEditField("ab","",4,EditField.FILTER_NUMERIC) ;
BasicEditField befB = new BasicEditField("cd","",4,EditField.FILTER_NUMERIC) ;
hfm.add(befA);
hfm.add(befB);
add(hfm);

But when I do this, I can see befA on the screen, and the screen can scroll over to the right, but I never see the label fro befB. I can enter numbers into befB, although I can't see them.

Thanks for all the help!

Sunny.

[santa kruz]

I got it! Found it on the blackberry developper site.

Sorry for all the posts, i'm just having a bunch of problems with this program (I'm a noob).

Here's how i got it to work for anyone else having the same problem:

//main class for FixedWidthField which extends the EditField class
class FixedWidthField extends EditField
{
//private members of the FixedWidthField class
private Font defaultFont;
//used to get the default font
private String text;
//used to specify the default width of the table cells

//constructor calls the super class constructor
FixedWidthField(String label, String initialValue, int maxNumChars, long style) {
super(label, initialValue, maxNumChars, style);
}

//overrides the default getPreferredWidth functionality to return a fixed
//width
public int getPreferredWidth() {
defaultFont = Font.getDefault();
text = "0000000000";
return defaultFont.getAdvance(text);

}

//overrides the default layout functionality to set the width of the table
//cell
protected void layout(int width, int height) {
width = getPreferredWidth();
height = super.getPreferredHeight();
super.layout(width, height);
//uses the super class' layout functionality
//after the width and the height are set
super.setExtent(width,height);
//uses the super class' setExtent functionality
//after the width and the height are set
}

}