Question

If I create a List based on an array of Commands, and the text of some Commands are not entirely shown in the List, although the List preferredWidth is set to the Form preferredWidth, how to ticker them ?

Thank you very much

Answer 1

Try this code, it will show list in dialog box on clicking “Show list” command and will also enable ticker initially. Below is the code which shows how to use the above mentioned class to see ticker in list when list is contained in dialog.

Don’t forget to make your list final so that it can be used in inner classes.

form.addCommand(new Command("Show list") { // add command in form and override its actionPerformed method
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
         Dialog d = new Dialog() {  // create an instance of dialog and make it an inner class so that you can override onShow() method and set focus on list when dialog gets initialized and also can set its index to ur preferred one (here it's 0)
             protected void onShow() { // overriding of onShow() method
                 list.requestFocus();  // set focus on list
                 list.setSelectedIndex(0);  // set selected index to 0
             }
         };
         d.addComponent(list);  // add list in dialog
         d.show();  // show dialog
    } 
 });

This code shows my list in dialog and starts ticker initially. If it doesn’t help, post your code, i will try to see it.