[kazack]

Hi there,

I have a screen class that creates a screen with my editfield, and a button.
I have another class with a listener for the button.

My problem is how do I get the user input in the editfield from one class into the fieldlistener class?

Please note that I do know how to program in php, c++ and Visual basic. I have never programmed in any form of JAVA. The code that I am submitting is code that I pieced together and modified thus far to give me the look that I currently need and that actually works.

Here is my code below:

PHP Code:

class DataScreen extends MainScreen
{
    int USERDATA;
        public SalutationScreen()
    {
        super();
        LabelField applicationTitle = 
            new LabelField("Get User Data");
        setTitle(applicationTitle);
       // RichTextField helloWorldTextField = new RichTextField("Get User Data");
       // add(helloWorldTextField);

    EditField DATA = new EditField("DATA: ", "", 4, EditField.FILTER_NUMERIC);
    add(DATA);
    
    ButtonField RunCode_Button = new ButtonField("Run Code");
    FieldListener sendListener = new FieldListener();
    RunCode_Button.setChangeListener(sendListener);
    add(RunCode_Button);
   
   }

static class FieldListener implements 
    FieldChangeListener {
        public void fieldChanged(Field field,
            int context) {
              
/*HOW DO I GET the DATA from the EDITFIELD called DATA above so that way I can manipulate it?  Thanks All  */
                
    }
} 


[bemshaswing]

declare EditField DATA globally and access the content whenever you want by calling DATA.getText()

[kazack]

I moved the editfiled line to the beginning of the Class SalutatonScreen.

Does this make this global for the class and all sub classes?

I then tried this and am not sure if this is right or not.

I declared int TheData. Then did TheData = DATA.getText;

And I get the following errors:

Cannot Resolve Ssymbol
symbol: variable getText
location: class net.rim.device.api.ui.component.EditField
TheData = DATA.getText;

Thanks,
Shawn

[richard.puckett]

Hi Shawn. You know, around here, we use parenthesis to indicate things like method calls. jk

In any event, is there a particular reason why you don't want your FieldChangeListener to be implemented by your DataScreen? I whipped up an example of that here if you want to check it out.

If you want to use a separate class as your listener that can certainly be done, but you'll need to watch your implementation so the code doesn't turn into a big tangled mess.

[dangihitesh]

Hi,
The possible workaround could be pass your EditField object to the listener class. Pass your EditField object when u create a listener object...and add one parameterized constructur to your listener class and access this EditField Object in your listener class.

Thanks
Hitesh

[simon.hain]

To make your code more readable for others you should follow the sun java code conventions

The FieldChangeListener gets the changed field as a parameter in its fieldChanged method.
You can cast it to EditField and use getText() and setText() to get or set its contents.

[kazack]

Hi there,

I will be trying a few of these things and I have a book on order for J2ME. I wanted to whip something up which is why I figure I would just try to hack my away code examples etc and then if I needed help in the mean time use the forums.

So I greatly appreciate the help that all has given me.

Thanks,
Shawn

P.S. Sorry about improper code posting.

[Mark Rejhon]

Lots of good tips.

However, whatever you do, please be careful about thread safety when multiple classes access the same objects. You don't want different threads modifying the same object. (Especially when UI and non-UI threads modify the same objects, such as a String variable, if you regularly copy the textfield into a string variable, while at the same time you also modify the string variable in the non-UI thread)

Excercise thread safe programming. I've been bitten by bugs that was fixed by declaring a variable as "synchronize", or using other thread safety techniques. Use this in non-performance critical situations (String variables that only get changed less often than a few time a second are okay.)

I have seen situations on the BlackBerry threads where it is possible for one thread to change a variable/object (even a mere boolean variable), and the value not be read correctly in the other thread for some time beyond that. They don't even need to access the variable simultaneously for this to happen; just one after the other very closely. It's a matter of milliseconds or microseconds, but is a source of a lot of "Unhandled Exception" and lockups/freezes in some of the more poorly programmed BlackBerry applications. Be familiar with thread safety, please - study that chapter very carefully!

[kazack]

Well I got an application now written and I want to start morphing the heck out of it to make is a so called USEFUL Application.

I am not at the moment to concerned about looks of if as much as the functionality of it........ Once functionality is there then I will work on the looks of it.

It took me a bit but I figured out how to typecast a string to an integer. That was very interesting, and completely different to what I am use to in other languages. But it now works. Here is an issue with current app that I have and wasn't sure without a book to overcome the issue.

The user enters a number.
they hit submit button.

It dialogs the calculation results you hit the ok button from the dialog but it displays the menu at the bottom. You have to hit the back button to get rid of it. What do I need to do so that when the user hits the submit button that the only thing on the screen that pops up is the dialog box and that is it?

Also what is the api call if you want to call it that to pull up a calendar to a specific date?

Example: User enters a number, it generates a date at random and then it opens up the calendar to that date.

Thanks,
Shawn

[jenselense]

Hi,
to avoid the menu to appear you can give the button a certain style when creating it. (in this case CONSUMECLICK):
new ButtonField("submit",ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK);

To run one of the standard BB-apps there is the INVOKE class.
you can start the the calander with:

Invoke.invokeApplication(Invoke.APP_TYPE_CALENDER, new CalendarArguments(ARG_VIEW_DAY , Calendar date) );

you can start the calander in different views (see api)

hf
J

[kazack]

Originally Posted by jenselense

Invoke.invokeApplication(Invoke.APP_TYPE_CALENDER, new CalendarArguments(ARG_VIEW_DAY , Calendar date) );


hf
J

I thank you so very much for your information. I did find the api call that you mention above. But I guess my next question is sending the Calendar date??

What format does that need to be in MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YYYY MM-DD-YY, MM-DD-YYYY, or just MMDDYY or MMDDYYYY and being I am sending a string value I would assume I do not need quotes around it, or does it need to be a Date Variance andnot a string or integer?

Thanks Alot for the help,
Shawn

[simon.hain]

java.util.Calendar

hth,
simon