Next Line character in Nokia Phones

[ashishga]

Hi,

I am testing my application on Nokia 6681 and Nokia 3250. I am using an Alert and I have printed a string that contains next line characters (\n) in the string, but when the application runs on the actual device, it doesn't display those \n characters. I mean, the string comes in continuation and those \n are just discarded.

Is this a bug in Nokia implementation or there is something else to be done to acheive this.

Regards,
Ashish

[axs]

Hi,

Try \r\n instead of just \n characters

[ashishga]

Hi axs,

I have tried using \r\n and all possible ways to get the string to next line.

Have you tried generating string on the next line.

Regards,
Ashish

[peterblazejewicz]

hi Ashish,

I can only confirm that with 6680 device and Alert item,
if you can consider using Form screen instead of alert,

regards,
Peter

[ashishga]

Hi Peter,

My application is not device dependent. I am making one code and running on every device.

You have suggested it for 6680. What about 3250? and N91? and many more new devices.

Regards,
Ashish

[axs]

I think Peter's solution is a reasonable one. If you are thinking about the cross-platform solution, and you _really_ need to separate lines from each other, then Form would be a really nice option (especially if you are going to ask mobile user for confirmations, like during the acceptance for submitted names, surnames, addresses, etc.)

Otherwise, I know that on oldy 7650 we had such bug, but solved it with doubled \n characters. I.e. try once more to use "\n\n" instead of "\n", maybe this is still the same bug

[Pepper_91]

I've solved this issue using "\n \r\r" instead "\n\n"

[peterblazejewicz]

hi,
just btw:
I've found that few times, MIPD2.0 docs links the same section in documentation about "line breaks" in docs:

Line Breaks and Wrapping
For all cases where text is wrapped, line breaks must occur at each newline character ('\n' = Unicode 'U+000A'). If space does not permit the full text to be displayed it is truncated at line breaks. If there are no suitable line breaks, it is recommended that implementations break text at word boundaries. If there are no word boundaries, it is recommended that implementations break text at character boundaries.

http://java.sun.com/javame/reference...html#linebreak

so I think we should expect using above to got linebreaks (newlines),
regards,
Peter

[ashishga]

Hi,

I have tried the solution of "\n \r\r" but it is not working on Nokia 3250.

Pepper,
What devices did you try this solution and can you please post you that piece of code on this thread.

Peter,
What I think of your post is that you are stressing on using Form instead of Alert to go for getting next line chars. But if I have to go that way, why in the world are Alerts provided in J2ME.

Any positive responses.
I think this is a bug in Nokia's implementation of J2ME.

Regards,
Ashish

[Pepper_91]

I was using \n\n in a few mobiles, working well, but not in nokia 6280. I tried this solution in the 6280 and works!

[ashishga]

Hi Pepper,

That means you have not tried it on Nokia 3250, and also there is no common call for the same.

It varies from handset to handset. Is it so???

Regards,
Ashish

[peterblazejewicz]

Peter,
What I think of your post is that you are stressing on using Form instead of Alert to go for getting next line chars.

hi Ashish,
no, rather I posted that because I wondered if that is supposed to be standard "newline" char ('U+000A') accross implementations - no matter what displayable is used to render string,

regards,
Peter

[ashishga]

Hi Peter,

But that is not the case, different displayables are treating new line characters in different ways, only on Nokia phones.

I am sure, this is soem kind of issue in the Nokia's implementation and Nokia should look in to it.

Regards,
Ashish

[sumanthgwn]

hi..Friends..we do have next line charcater in Symbian..we find it in aknconstants.h header file..with..KNewLine..

[misfit.physics]

hi..Friends..we do have next line charcater in Symbian..we find it in aknconstants.h header file..with..KNewLine..

can somebody give a simple way to use it?
like:
1) is this how to use it?
"this is a string KNewline and another string"


2) string1 = "this is a string"
string 2 = "and another string"
str = string1 + KNewline + string2

which one?

thanks