[taqi.mir]

Hi,

I am having trouble in tracing the string from vector there by selecting the row in the ListField.Please see below listed code

public int indexOfList
(ListField fieldVar,String prefix,int start)
{
boolean bolResult;
String entry;
for (int a=0; a<_table.size();a++)
{
Object obj= _table.elementAt(a);
if(obj instanceof String)
{
entry =(String)obj;
bolResult = entry.startsWith(prefix);
Dialog.inform(""+bolResult+" "+prefix+" "+entry);
if(bolResult==true)
{
Dialog.inform("equal");
//Dialog.inform(""+bolResult);
searchIndex=_table.indexOf(entry);
listField.setSelectedIndex(searchIndex);
listField.setFocus();
break;
}
else
{
//Dialog.inform(""+bolResult);
}

}
}
return searchIndex;
}

Am i doing wrong something?

[SunitK]

can u elaborate on what is the expected output and actual output in the code above

[hrbuckley]

And to start with, if you really want help with code you should first read this thread which is stuck at the top of the forum. That way we could look at your code like this:

public int indexOfList (ListField fieldVar,String prefix,int start)
{
  boolean bolResult;
  String entry;
  for (int a=0; a<_table.size();a++)
  {
    Object obj= _table.elementAt(a);
    if(obj instanceof String)
    {
      entry =(String)obj;
      bolResult = entry.startsWith(prefix);
      Dialog.inform(""+bolResult+" "+prefix+" "+entry);
      if(bolResult==true)
      {
        Dialog.inform("equal");
        //Dialog.inform(""+bolResult);
        searchIndex=_table.indexOf(entry);
        listField.setSelectedIndex(searchIndex);
        listField.setFocus();
        break;
      }
      else
      {
         //Dialog.inform(""+bolResult);
      }

    }
  }
  return searchIndex;
}

I assume you are trying to implement ListFieldCallback.indexOfList. If true your implementation does not really match the contract specified by the API documentation. You probably don't really want to be popping up Dialogs in that method either as it could quickly get messy. If you want to provide debugging output I would recommend System.out.println()

In any case: the search is supposed to start at start, not 0; if a match is not found it should return fieldVar.getSelectedIndex(); or if the search is not appropriate in context return -1.

If you don't pop up modal dialogs, you can probably dispense with the call to setFocus() which should likely be called on a defined variable, fieldVar? Or is listField (and searchIndex for that matter) defined elsewhere? This may go for the call to setSelectedIndex as well, but as SunitK said, what are you trying to do?