Question

I am developing a game app for blackberry where i want to place the buttons in a semi circle fashion on the home screen…..so far I have seen all the buttons being aligned either horizontally or vertically….is there any way out where we can place buttons at custom locations such as using a layout in android and hardcoding to place them in terms of pixels? Any help is greatly appreciated

thanks

Answer 1

You may do this by overriding sublayout in your field manager.

In the following example setPositionChild defines the X,Y position of the first field (field 0) added to this manager. To add additional fields increment the number in this.getField() and add the fields to hfm in the order you position them.

public HorizontalFieldManager testingXYPlacement() {
    HorizontalFieldManager hfm = new HorizontalFieldManager() {

            // Define the x,y, positions of the fields
            protected void sublayout( int width, int height ) {

                super.sublayout( width, height );

                Field field = null;

                field = this.getField(0);
                if (field != null && equals(field.getManager())) {
                        setPositionChild(field, XPOS, YPOS);     
                }

                setExtent( width, height);
            }
        };

        hfm.add(new ButtonField("hello!"));

        return hfm;
}