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Building a fisheye menu in J2ME with JSR 226

I’ve always loved fisheye menus but, while there are quite a lot of ready-to-use components for web applications, when it comes to mobile it’s hard to find something. What better reason to build one? :)

Since we’ll have dynamically resizable icons, a natural choice to build one with J2ME is JSR 226, that give us full support of SVG Tiny. This will limit portability of code, since this JSR is not supported on all J2me phones, but support is rapidly growing with latest generation phones.

As you’ll see, code is quite straightforward, and great part of it is dedicated to coordinates/size calculations, to create that “slide/resize” effect that is soooooo cool :)

J2ME fisheye menu

You can find menu source code on my Forum Nokia Wiki article: J2ME Fisheye Menu with JSR 226, or download sample midlet here (and source code here).

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This entry was posted on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm and is filed under j2me, tutorial. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Building a fisheye menu in J2ME with JSR 226”

  1. Iphone » Building a fisheye menu in J2ME with JSR 226 Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    [...] pit wrote an interesting post today on Building a fisheye menu in J2ME with JSR 226Here’s a quick excerptI

  2. J2ME, Flash Lite, Symbian, Iphone, Android and Ajax news, tutorials, source code » Blog Archive » Building a dynamic fisheye menu in Flash Lite Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    [...] time ago, we’ve seen how to build a fisheye menu with J2ME. Now, it’s time to see how to create the same component with Flash [...]

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