I'm having an issue which I believe I can only solve with a kludge... I'm wondering if anyone has developed such a kludge that they consider reliable across different J2ME implementations.
I have a ChoiceGroup as a part of a form. That ChoiceGroup has a label which is necessarily fairly long. My target phone, the Motorola i730, will only display about 16 characters horizontally in one line on the screen; furthermore, it will not line-wrap the label of a ChoiceGroup. I imagine that different MIDP implementations are similar. However, I unfortunately need the label to be arbitrarily long (I'm not talking paragraphs or anything; the label will be something like "Are you still at Location ABC?")
So my only thought is that I might append a StringItem to the form first, which contains the the text the would have been in the ChoiceGroup's label. A StringItem will typically line-wrap; plus I can set the StringItem to a smaller font (unlike the label of a ChoiceGroup). Then, I would append the ChoiceGroup, but give the ChoiceGroup no label. Thus, it would hopefully appear to the user as if the StringItem is the label for the ChoiceGroup items.
Does anyone know of any problems that different implementations might cause me if I do this? I know there's no guarantee of the layout, but is my approach reasonably reliable? Or is there some better approach that I'm missing?
Thanks in advance!
I have a ChoiceGroup as a part of a form. That ChoiceGroup has a label which is necessarily fairly long. My target phone, the Motorola i730, will only display about 16 characters horizontally in one line on the screen; furthermore, it will not line-wrap the label of a ChoiceGroup. I imagine that different MIDP implementations are similar. However, I unfortunately need the label to be arbitrarily long (I'm not talking paragraphs or anything; the label will be something like "Are you still at Location ABC?")
So my only thought is that I might append a StringItem to the form first, which contains the the text the would have been in the ChoiceGroup's label. A StringItem will typically line-wrap; plus I can set the StringItem to a smaller font (unlike the label of a ChoiceGroup). Then, I would append the ChoiceGroup, but give the ChoiceGroup no label. Thus, it would hopefully appear to the user as if the StringItem is the label for the ChoiceGroup items.
Does anyone know of any problems that different implementations might cause me if I do this? I know there's no guarantee of the layout, but is my approach reasonably reliable? Or is there some better approach that I'm missing?
Thanks in advance!