Get rid of canvas title without Nokia code

[Danack]

Is it possible to get rid of the title on the canvas without using any Nokia specific libraries ?

I'm developing a game that's hopefully going to be on a number of different phones and I'd rather not have different code for each phone....

[tinkezione]

Hi,

with Nokia phones, it's unfortunately it's not possible to get rid of the Canvas title without using the FullCanvas class of Nokia UI API. Don't know about the other manufacturers, though.

Kind regards
Tinke / FN

[Danack]

Thanks

Do you have any advice on how to implement platform dependent code such as this ? For example if I was writing platform independent C code I'd do:

#ifdef NOKIA_PLATFORM
class GameFrame extends FullCanvas
#else
class GameFrame extends Canvas
#endif
{
...rest of class
}


Obviously that's not possible on Java as it doesn't have the pre-processor. Is there anyway of not having either lines of code commented in/out or completely different source files.

cheers
dan

[Nightmare_82]

I have 3 canvas classes in my engine. One for Nokia, one for Siemens and the standard one.
In the different jar files you only put the one you need and with
Class.forName("com.nokia.mid.ui.FullCanvas");
you can test if a class exists(if its a nokia handy) and create an instance of it. The problem is that you have to copy the code from the 3 classes, but you only need one canvas and you don't have to change the code.

        try
        {
            // This statement throws an exception if no Nokia UI API available
            Class.forName("com.nokia.mid.ui.FullCanvas");
                    Class clas = Class.forName("escape.api.graphics.nokia.CNokiaCanvas");
            
            oCanvas = (IEscCanvas)(clas.newInstance());
            
            System.out.println("Nokia Canvas");
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            try
            {
                // If no Nokia UI API, then create a  SiemensCanvas                
                Class.forName("com.siemens.mp.color_game.GameCanvas");
                
                Class clas = Class.forName("escape.api.graphics.siemens.CSiemensCanvas");
                
                oCanvas = (IEscCanvas)(clas.newInstance());
                
                System.out.println("Siemens Canvas");
            }
            catch (Exception e2)
            {               
                oCanvas = (IEscCanvas) new CEscCanvas();
                
                System.out.println("Standard Canvas");
            }

[Danack]

Thanks - What I'm doing now is having different files that define 'GameCanvas' and then extend that class eg

NokiaCanvas.java:
class GameCanvas extends FullCanvas
{
//nokia specific stuff
}


StandardCanvas.java:
class GameCanvas extends Canvas
{
// default version stuff.
}


then in my actual game code I extend GameCanvas:

I use Metrowerks Codewarrior Wireless studio, which allows you to include different files for different build targets. So for the Nokia build target it includes NokiaCanvas.java and for the standard version it includes StandardCanvas.java.


This is cool as it also allows me to separate other platform specific stuff into this file eg Nokia and Motorola disagree on what the button IDs for the softkeys should be.

cheers