[mabin]

I have been searching for an example of how to set the height of a label field. I have read that you need to extend the class and override getPreferredHeight(). How would you do this? I have tried the following

            LabelField lbl_overview = new LabelField("Overview",LabelField.FIELD_HCENTER)
            {               
                public int getPreferredHeight(){
                    return 200;
                }
                
            };

Which is wrong, as all I am doing is returning a height. Does any one have a simple example?

[rachnakhokhar]

Hi Mabin,

You are doing right by overriding this method but you haven't told this label field to take your given height you have to use setExtent method to give your preferred height.

[renuka_anil]

try this

protected void layout(int width, int height){
super.layout(lblWidth, lblHeight);
setExtent(lblWidth, lblHeight);
}

lblWidth is width of the label
lblHeight is height of label

both are calculated..