Question

Is it possible to press keypad programmatically so that number for the key pressed shows on the screen? See the screenshot below for more explanation please:

Details:
Nokia N70
CLDC 1.1
MIDP 2.0

Answer 1

How you approach it will depend on what you want to achieve.

You can quite easily simulate pressing keys on a Canvas, by calling your Canvas’s keyPressed(), keyReleased() and keyRepeated() methods directly.

This could be good for testing a canvas-based game, ensuring a given state is entered when certain keys are pressed on the canvas.

However, this won’t allow you to control any form-based interaction, or native prompts. So you can’t start the MIDlet, navigate through a LCDUI Form or List, accept a native security prompt, or edit a native TextBox. You’d need to use an emulator and some form of test scripting framework which simulates keypresses, such as Eggplant.