Jappit.com » ui http://www.jappit.com/blog Mobile blog by Alessandro La Rosa Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:38:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to create a new Component for the Guarana UI Library http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/11/20/how-to-create-a-new-component-for-the-guarana-ui-library/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/11/20/how-to-create-a-new-component-for-the-guarana-ui-library/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:11:32 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/?p=708 This new article shows how to create from scratch a new Component from the Guarana UI Library.

The article shows all the steps involved in the creation of the new Component, explaining all the necessary details to understand the whole process, passing by the setup of the Component file structure, the writing of the actual Component JS and CSS code, and the integration of the Component with the Guarana UI building process.

Purpose of the article is to give developers guidelines to create their own Components, integrating them with the Guarana UI Library. The component is also available on the Guarana UI online Components Browser.

The full article is available, as usual, on Forum Nokia Wiki: How to create a new Component for the Guarana UI Library Guarana.

]]> http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/11/20/how-to-create-a-new-component-for-the-guarana-ui-library/feed/ 2 Creating a Slider component for Mobile Web Templates http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/10/30/creating-a-slider-component-for-mobile-web-templates/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/10/30/creating-a-slider-component-for-mobile-web-templates/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:30:18 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/?p=647 This new article, published on Forum Nokia Wiki, shows how to design, build and use a Slider Web component based on Forum Nokia‘s Mobile Web Templates.

The Slider component allows to add a bit of interactivity to mobile Web pages, substituting classic text fields with a more intuitive, good-looking and usable component.

The full article is available on Forum Nokia Wiki: Creating a Slider component for Mobile Web Templates.

]]> http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/10/30/creating-a-slider-component-for-mobile-web-templates/feed/ 1 How to draw gradients with J2ME http://www.jappit.com/blog/2008/04/12/how-to-draw-gradients-with-j2me/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2008/04/12/how-to-draw-gradients-with-j2me/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:55:35 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/?p=14 Gradients are a nice graphic element to be used within your game or application. But, wouldn’t it be great if you could use all the gradients you want, without using images?

And here is the Saturday Tutorial :)

Draw gradients with J2me

The gradients shown in the screenshot above are generated by the following straightforward method:

Gradient.gradientBox(Graphics g, 
	int color1, int color2, 
	int left, int top, 
	int width, int height, 
	int orientation)

For the full source code you can see the J2me Gradient tutorial on Forum Nokia Wiki

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