[cristisor]

Hi. I'm trying to create a simple application that draws some things on the screen. If I do the drawing inside the paint(Graphics graphics) method everything works fine, but if I try to do it in another method outside paint it won't work at all, the screen is left white. Here is the code:

public class blackberryApp extends UiApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        blackberryApp theApp = new blackberryApp();
        theApp.enterEventDispatcher();
    }

    public blackberryApp() {
        //display a new screen
        GameScreen Game = new GameScreen();
        Game.start();
        pushScreen(Game);
    }
}

public class GameScreen extends FullScreen implements Runnable {    
    public Graphics theGraphics;
    public GameScreen() {
        super();
    }
    public void start() {
        theGraphics = getGraphics();
        mainThread = new Thread(this);
        mainThread.start();
    }
    public void paint(Graphics graphics) {
    }
    public void draw() {
        if (theGraphics != null) {
            theGraphics.pushRegion(new XYRect(0, 0, 240, 260));
            theGraphics.setColor(Graphics.BLACK);
            theGraphics.setColor(0x00FF00);
            theGraphics.fillRect(50, 50, 30, 30);
            theGraphics.setColor(Graphics.WHITE);
            theGraphics.drawText("It works", 20, 20);
            theGraphics.popContext();
        }
    }
    public final void run() {
        while (true) {
            draw();
            invalidate();
            try {
            Thread.sleep(100);
            } catch (Exception e)
            {
            }
        }
    }
}

The BB UI supports double buffering or I have to create an auxiliary buffer to draw inside it first and then draw the buffer to the screen in the paint method? Maybe I should make "theGraphics = getGraphics()" somewhere else, like before I call in the draw() method?

[crucialsoft]

Hello,

The paint callback is called to paint the screen by the blackberry.
It is not supposed to be in an different way...

The best option is to have your painting code in the paint routine.
And just call the invalidate from the thread.

If you really wants to paint in a different routine, like an offset buffer, you must create a bitmap buffer and get the graphics for it.
And on paint routine blit this bitmap to screen(a litle more complicated).

You should keep it simple and draw on paint(my suggestion), but let me know why do you need to paint in other routine?

CrucialSoft

[cristisor]

I'm making a game so it's a lot of painting and sometimes it has to be outside the routine. But I managed to solve my problem. My screen wasn't showing anything because in the blackberryApp constructor I called the Game.start() before pushScreen(Game), so later when I was doing the

Graphics = getGraphics();

I wasn't receiving the correct graphics context. And I also used this.updateDisplay() in the end of each drawing method. Now everything is ok, I hope I won't encounter other problems. Thank you for your help.