Layout question with BlackBerry IDE FieldManagers; how to emulate HTML's rowspan
- by canadiancreed
Hello all
I'm trying to create a page where a list of items are displayed in a row where there are multiple columns on the left, but only one on the right, encased within a horizontialFieldManager. Currently I have the following code to attempt to do the following:
VerticalFieldManager mainScreenManager = new VerticalFieldManager();
mainScreenManager.add(titleField);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
HorizontalFieldManager itemAreaManager = new HorizontalFieldManager();
VerticalFieldManager itemTextFieldsAreaManager = new VerticalFieldManager();
itemTextFieldsAreaManager.add(new RichTextField(contentArticleTitle[i]));
itemTextFieldsAreaManager.add(new RichTextField(contentArticleDate[i]));
itemTextFieldsAreaManager.add(new SeparatorField());
itemAreaManager.add(itemTextFieldsAreaManager);
itemAreaManager.add(new ButtonField("", 0));
mainScreenManager.add(itemAreaManager);
};
add(mainScreenManager);
Now the issue I'm experiencing is probably obvious to those familiar with managers; the horizontialFieldManager has the first item added to it consuming the entire width available, thereby never showing the button. What I'm wondering is how can I tell this in an extended class to only take up a certain percentage of the available width? I've tried subLayout and setting the width to be a certain amount, but it will just show the button instead of the text (pretty much same problem, just reversed)
