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How to build a tab menu with J2ME

Here is a tutorial showing how to build a simple tabbed menu using J2ME, that you can try live on the emulator page

J2me tabbed menu
This first version will support:

  • Full styling of tabs (bg color, fore color, font face, margin, paddings and corner radius)
  • Automatic horizontal scrolling, so that you can put as many tab you want, without caring about screen width

There’s still a lot of room for improvements, but we’ll leave them for the next tutorial :)

You can find a detailed tutorial with source code on Form Nokia Wiki: J2ME Tabbed Menu Tutorial.

Direct links to source code:

  • TabMenu.java: main class, to include in your projects to build Tabbed Menus
  • TabMenuCanvas.java: a sample Canvas using TabMenu component, useful to understand how to use it
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3 Responses to “How to build a tab menu with J2ME”

  1. AJAX coding school » Blog Archive » AJAX Tutorials [2008-04-11 09:14:41] Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 10:21 am

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  2. Krishna Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Hallo,

    Im trying to do this tabbed menu, feature but struggling a lot since im not that good in Canvas. from your tutorial i got the menu with horizontal scroll. i want to build some graphs and text info in each of the tabs , im not sure where to change to get the display, can you please throw some light on it.

    Thanks.
    Krishna.

  3. anchol Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 5:21 am

    Hi,

    I have an example J2ME web services. when I connect to the server, the server does not receive unicode characters (utf-8). What can I do here.
    Thanks.

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