[shraddha294]

I am adding four bitmap fields to a Horizontal Field Manager and using these as buttons/tabs to switch between 4 screens (each bitmap field mapped to one vertical field manager). This is a tabbed layout.

The horizontal manager is then added to mainscreen. The whole thing works fine. But i want the horizontal manager to be added at the bottom of the mainscreen instead of top.

The bitmap fields (tabs) are visible at the top of the screen, is there a way to place them at the bottom of the screen?

[Dougsg38p]

You'll need to create your own layout manager that places the tabs at the bottom of the screen.

[DeveloperDave]

Doug, can you be more specific? How exactly would you go about doing that?

Ok I found this link (sorry can't post links yet):

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.blackberry.com/developers/javaknowledge/userInterface/kpa0203190635.shtml

I guess that means that within this custom layout manager, you'll be doing some maff to calculate positions based on screen dimensions and specific fields' heights/widths and pinning them to absolute x/y coordinates?

[Dougsg38p]

Yes - you would create a layout manager that calculates the position of the tab control by looking at the height of the title, list field, whatever other controls are in the layout.

That's one way to do it, I'm sure there are others.

The default behavior of VerticalLayout is to stack the controls one on top of the other.

[DeveloperDave]

Thanks (Congrats on the 500th post, btw). I guess all you really have to to is 2 things in the custom layout manager; accept the HorizontalFieldManager (the bottom) and whatever manager you want for the top content area. Absolutely position those two managers with respect to each other and then proceed as normal (i.e. throw whatever you want in the content area).

[Dougsg38p]

Something like that.

We have a couple of custom layouts that we use for a variety of situations like this.

For example:

--------------------
TITLE
--------------------
BODY
(Usually a list)
--------------------
FOOTER (usually a toolbar)
--------------------

The title is positioned at 0, the body right under the title, and the footer positioned at screenheight - toolbarheight.

Of course, the body might be a listfield or it might be another manager - either way, the physical extent of this "field" is set to screenheight - toolbarheight - titleheight.

[shraddha294]

Thanks everyone...
This would help...

[DD12]

Hi shraddha294

setStatus(HorizontalFieldManager).

This is dock the manager to the bottom of the screen.

Thanks

[shraddha294]

For anyone who refers the thread later, from all solutions, this worked the best for my problem.

Originally Posted by Dougsg38p

You'll need to create your own layout manager that places the tabs at the bottom of the screen.

Extend ur screen's manager with Manager and use it to place elements wherever u like.