LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to LWUIT
• Why we need the LWUIT
• LWUIT overview
• Widgets
• Container and Form
• The TabbedPane
• Calendar
• Dialog
• Label and Button
• TextArea and TextField
• List
• ComboBox
• The underlying support elements
• Resource
• Layout managers
• Style
• Painter
• UIManager
• LookAndFeel
• Functionalities
• Animations and transitions
• Themes
• Logging
• The Basic architecture
• LWUITImplementation—the foundation of LWUIT
• The Display class
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Components
• The LWUIT bundle
• Getting equipped
• Hello LWUIT!
• Creating the project
• The code
• Deploying an application
• The Component class
• Methods to handle size and location
• Methods for event handling
• Methods for rendering
• The painting process
• Miscellaneous methods
• Animation support for components
• Handling Style
• The Graphics class
• Summary

• Chapter 3: The Container Family
• The Container
• Creating a Container
• The methods of the Container class
• The form
• Creating a form
• Handling commands
• The Command class
• Creating a command
• Methods of Command class
• Installing a command
• Managing the form's appearance
• Setting the TitleBar's looks
• The Font class
• Creating a Font
• The methods of the Font class
• Installing a new font
• Setting the MenuBar's looks
• Setting the Form's Looks
• The Dialog
• Creating a Dialog
• The methods of the Dialog class
• Displaying a dialog
• The Calendar
• Creating a Calendar
• Methods of Calendar class
• Using a Calendar
• The TabbedPane
• Creating a TabbedPane
• Methods of TabbedPane class
• A TabbedPane in action
• Style for the future
• Summary

• Chapter 4: The Label Family
• The Border class
• The Label
• The LabelDemo example
• Creating a Label
• Methods of the Label class
• The LabelDemo application
• The Button class
• Creating a Button
• The methods of Button class
• The DemoButton example
• The CheckBox
• Creating a CheckBox
• Methods of the CheckBox class
• The "Languages Known" example
• The RadioButton and ButtonGroup
• The ButtonGroup class
• Creating a RadioButton
• Methods of the RadioButton class
• The "Reservation" Example
• Summary

• Chapter 5: List and ComboBox
• The list
• Creating a List
• The methods of the List class
• Setting up a basic list
• A list with custom rendering
• The ToDoList
• The ComboBox
• Creating a ComboBox
• The methods of the ComboBox class
• A combo box with the default renderer
• A combo box with a custom renderer
• Summary

• Chapter 6: TextArea and TextField
• The TextArea
• Creating a TextArea
• The methods of the TextArea class
• Putting TextArea class through its paces
• The TextField class
• Creating a TextField
• The methods of the TextField class
• Checking out TextField
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Arranging Widgets with Layout Managers
• Layout class
• The LayoutStyle class
• BorderLayout
• BoxLayout
• CoordinateLayout
• FlowLayout
• GridLayout
• GroupLayout
• GroupLayout.Group
• GroupLayout.ParallelGroup
• GroupLayout.SequentialGroup
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Creating a Custom Component
• The making of a component
• The TimeViewer class
• The TimeTeller class
• The Real time mode
• The ElapsedTime mode
• The TimeTellerMIDlet
• Enhancements
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Resources Class, Resource File and LWUIT Designer
• The LWUIT Designer
• Creating a resource file
• Adding an image
• Adding an animation
• Adding a font
• Adding a localization resource
• Adding a Theme
• Saving a resource file
• The Resources class
• The SampleResource demo
• The manual approach
• The automatic approach
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Using Themes
• Working with theme files
• Viewing a theme file
• Editing a theme file
• Populating a theme
• Theming custom components
• Manual styling versus theming
• Theming on the fly
• New version of the LWUIT Designer
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Adding Animations and Transitions
• Animations
• The Hello MIDlet
• Transition
• The Transition class
• CommonTransitions
• Transition3D
• Using transitions
• The DemoTransition application
• Transition for components
• Authoring transitions
• The BlindsTransition class
• The StepMotion class
• The MIDlet
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Painters
• The Painter interface
• The DemoPainter application
• Drawing a multi-layered background
• The PainterChain class
• The DemoPainterChain application
• Using a glass pane
• The DemoGlassPane application
• A GlassPane with multiple layers
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Effects and Logging—Useful Utilities
• Using Effects
• The Effects class
• The DemoEffects application
• Logging with LWUIT
• The Log class
• The DemoLogger application
• Customizing Log
• The DemoMyLog MIDlet
• Summary

• Index