Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Before You Read This Document
• How This Document Is Organized
• Shell Prompts
• Typographic Conventions
• Related Documentation
• We Welcome Your Comments

1 Introducing the Lightweight UI Toolkit Library

• API Overview
  • Scope and Portability
  • Events and Threading

2 Using Lightweight UI Toolkit Widgets

• Component
• Container
• Form
• Create and Set Up a Form Label
• Button
• RadioButton
• ButtonGroup
• CheckBox
• ComboBox
• Tabs
• TextArea
• TextField
• Calendar
• Tickering
• Bidi
• Virtual Keyboard
• Customizing the Virtual Keyboard
  • Changing the Virtual Keyboard Look and Feel
  • Adding a Language
  • Adding an Input Mode for Hebrew
  • Binding a Virtual Keyboard to a TextField
  • Adding Your Own Button to a TextField

3 Using Lists

• Initializing a List
• Creating a Model
  • ListModel
  • DefaultListModel
• List Cell Renderer
  • ListCellRenderer
  • DefaultListCellRenderer
• Adding Items to and Removing Items From a List
• List Events
  • Fixed Selection Feature
• Tickers in List
• Generic List Cell Renderer
  • Mapping Components to Hashtable Entries
  • Focus for Tickering and Fisheye
  • Hashtable Sample

4 Table and Tree

• Table
• Tree
• Customizing the Tree

5 Using Dialogs

• Dialog Types
• Creating a Dialog
  • Return Types of Show Methods
  • Non-Static Show Methods
  • Using the dispose() Method
  • Getting the User's Input from a Dialog

6 Using Layout Managers

• BorderLayout
• BoxLayout
  • X_AXIS
  • Y_AXIS
• FlowLayout
• GridLayout
• GroupLayout
• Coordinate Layout
• Table Layout

7 Using the Style Object

• Color
• Font
• Transparency
• Margin and Padding
• Images
• Borders
  • Bevel
  • Etched
  • Line
  • Round
  • Image
    • 9 Part
    • 3 Part
    • Horizontal/Vertical
• Style Listener
• Painters

8 Theming

• Basic Theming
• Look and Feel

9 Resources

• Resource Elements
  • Building a Bundle
    • Creating a Resource
    • Loading a Resource
  • Image Resources
  • Fonts
    • System Font
    • Dynamic Fonts
  • Localization (L10N)
  • Themes
• The LWUIT Resource Editor
  • Images and Animations
  • Fonts
  • Localization
  • Themes
    • Example: Adding a New Theme
    • Modifying Theme Entries
    • Data
    • Customizing the Preview
    • Known Issues

10 Painters

• Using Painter
• Painter Chain
• Glass Pane

11 LWUIT Implementation

• LWUIT Class

12 HTMLComponent

• HTMLComponent Use Cases
  • Rendering Rich Text
  • Reading HTML and Enabling External Resources
• HTMLCallback
  • parsingError
  • pageStatusChanged
  • titleUpdated
  • linkClicked
  • getLinkProperties
  • Auto Complete
• Fonts
  • Default Font
  • System Fonts in HTMLComponent
  • Bitmap Fonts
  • Font Tags
• Styles in HTMLComponent
• Character Entities
• HTMLComponent Settings
• CSS Support
• Implementing a DocumentRequestHandler
• DocumentInfo
  • getUrl
  • getEncoding and setEncoding
  • getParams
  • getExpectedContentType and setExpectedContentType
  • getFullUrl or getBaseUrl

13 Using Transitions and Animations

• Animation
• Motion
• Transition
  • Slide Transition
  • Fade Transition

14 Authoring Components

• Painting
• Sizing In Layout
• Event Handling
• Focus
• The Painting Pipeline
• Styling
• Background
• Animating The Component
• The Custom Component

15 Portability and Performance

• Introduction
• Performance
  • Memory
    • Encoded Images
  • Speed
    • Event Dispatch Thread (EDT)
    • LWUIT Performance
• Device Bugs And Limitations
  • Bugs
  • Limitations
• Resolution Independence
• Input
  • Soft Buttons
  • Back Button
  • Touch Screen Devices
• Specific Device Issues
  • Motorola
  • Create a .cod File
  • Nokia S40
  • Sony Ericsson
  • General Portability Tip

A LWUIT Mini FAQ

Index