Question

Is there a modal dialog for BlackBerry OS (v. 4 – 6) which has a text input field?

I have a graphical application and I would like to avoid painting on it’s canvas, just throw a modal in the user’s face and ask for a little piece of text.

Answer 1

Try the following code:

Keep these global:

Dialog dialog;    
BasicEditField bEditField = new BasicEditField();

Then make the custom dialog like this:

dialog = new Dialog(Dialog.OK, "Enter Value:", Dialog.OK, null, Dialog.DEFAULT_CLOSE);
dialog.add(bEditField);

invoke dialog.doModal() from some button or menu action:

int i = dialog.doModal();
if(i == Dialog.OK) {
    Dialog.inform("The Input Text is : " + bEditField.getText());
}