canvas gameaction

[7.light]

I am trying to write a scrabble game.
As the board for the scrabble game, I have draws grid using Canvas class.

How can I detect that which a letter ( A, B, c , d, ....) the user types on the squares of the board?
In the canvas, we can use game Action Constant as only
UP
DOWN
LEFT
RIGHT
FIRE
GAME_A
GAME_B
GAME_C
GAME_D

How can we determine whether we type a letter or not and which character we type?

[raj_J2ME]

Well, there are the key handlers in the canvas you can use in order to get the key you pressed. For your purposes may be you have to write some code as per the key code that the device written,like if you want to draw that the user has pressed z or m or p then as per the key code you have to move ahead.

What I meant is as it is Here.

[im2amit]

I am trying to write a scrabble game.
As the board for the scrabble game, I have draws grid using Canvas class.

How can I detect that which a letter ( A, B, c , d, ....) the user types on the squares of the board?
In the canvas, we can use game Action Constant as only
UP
DOWN
LEFT
RIGHT
FIRE
GAME_A
GAME_B
GAME_C
GAME_D

How can we determine whether we type a letter or not and which character we type?

In Canvas class you can overwrite the KepPressed methods like this to get to know which key is pressed?

public void keyPressed(int key)
	{
		int gameAction = getGameAction(key);
 		System.out.println("KEY: " + key + ", " + gameAction);
         }

[grahamhughes]

I strongly recommend you avoid using the Game Actions. The key code passed to keyPressed will tell you which key was pressed.

If the device has a QWERTY keyboard, the keycode will probably be the ASCII code of the letter typed.

If the device as a numeric pad only, there will be no indication of typing a letter, only 0-9, * or #.

The official Scrabble game just uses the d-pad to select tiles from the user's set, rather than allowing the user to type.

Graham.