[dicksonw]

Hi, I'm been writing blackberry apps for a little while now but one of the biggest annoyances I have encountered is when deploying the app to another blackberry that has a different screen size/resolution. It seems I have to redesign the UI when ever I switch to another blackberry and so I'm wondering is there a easier way to do this? or if I'm doings something wrong.
I'm using my own custom draw manager where I can specify the x and y coordinates to place the fields (this is probably my problem) but I don't see any other way that will give me the same flexbility and control over the screen.

Thanks.

[Mark Rejhon]

If you need to use a co-ordinate system, there's many workarounds if you're willing to do a little bit of extra programming...

Try developing some kind of auto-aligning system, with top/bottom/left/center/right alignment flags. That way, you can specify a graphics item to be aligned with the bottom of the screen.

Another method is to use a virtual co-ordinate system, like 1000 by 1000 pixels, and scale gracefully to the BlackBerry resolution. So Pixel position (500,500) translates to the center of the screen.

One of the things I developed with my home theater career, was a virtual co-ordinate system for resolution-independent user interface displays, so I am pretty experienced with using co-ordinates gracefully on displays of unpredictable resolution...