Question

how to set the position of a button in java blackberry.

Answer 1

You can position a button or any other component on a screen by creating a Manager class and overriding the sublayout() method. A Manager is kind of like a Panel in java i.e an area of the screen you can add components to. In the sublayout() method you should

1. set the size of the component with layoutChild()

2. set the position of the component with setPositionChild()

3. Set the overall size of the Manager with setExtent()

something like

    button = new ButtonField();

    HorizontalFieldManager manager = new HorizontalFieldManager(){
        protected void sublayout(int width, int height) {
            int buttonWidth = button.getPreferredWidth();
            int buttonHeight = button.getPreferredHeight();
            layoutChild(button,buttonWidth, buttonHeight);
            setPositionChild(button, 0, 0);
            setExtent(width, height);
        }
    };
    manager.add(button);

You can override getPreferredWidth() and getPreferredHeight() for your button if you want to specify a certain width and height.

See

Custom layout Manager

Manager class