Comments on: How to write your first BlackBerry application – Lesson 1: UI fields

By: Thomas Klonowski

Thomas Klonowski — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:17 +0000

I’m having the same problem as sgr. The simulator takes forever to load and there is no sign of the application. You say that you can load the application through the desktop manager. Where and what is the desktop manager? You have to provide complete instructions if you want users to follow your tutorial. Thanks.

By: sgr

sgr — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:55 +0000

I use Blackberry JDE 4.7.0.41. I did everything as per this article. When I launch the Simulator, I don’t see any App. What kind of Simulator settings I need so I can view the App. (I use Default Simulator now)

I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

By: christina

christina — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:06:05 +0000

I have a review on me blog for some guides relating to blackberry app development and Java. http://theblackberryreview.blogspot.com/

Enjoy

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By: Darrell Bosely

Darrell Bosely — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:14:40 +0000

This problem appears on any demo app (from the Samples) that I try to run.
(I have just installed the Blackberry JDE).
What I do: 1- Bring in all the samples with ‘Open Workspace’
2- Set Active Workspace (for example ‘HelloWorld’)
3- Select Build (F7) Get ‘Build Complete’ with no errors shown.
4- Select ‘Debug/Go’ (F5)
5- The Simulator (For 8310- I have an 8330) and the hour glass works
6- After a bit the ‘Cannot find file’ dialog appears with this
message: ‘CMBUnitsConverter$2drimbb8300.debug’
7- I click ‘Don’t ask this again’ and eventually I get (where the
code was) a screen full of ’source code is not available’.
8- I also see in the bottom right corner pane:
Exception thrown @24008000 net.rim.device.api.i18n
MissingResourceException’

What’s wrong? What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.
Darrell Bosely

By: edwin

edwin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:38:35 +0000

Meant without …

By: edwin

edwin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:27:38 +0000

Is this for someone with any programming knowledge…

By: Kirk Wayland

Kirk Wayland — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:45:11 +0000

“Lection_1.debug not found”. I cannot seem to find a setting anywhere in the IDE that will generate the debug file that the Simulator wants.

Is there a better IDE out there somewhere?

By: Kirk Wayland

Kirk Wayland — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:30:34 +0000

OK, Putting the path to directory that contained JAVAC.EXE, (and then rebooting), fixed the build issue. Next issue is that the Simulator does not seem to know about the application. How does one run this on the simulator? I selected DEBUG, (private and released being the other choices), and hit F5. The simulator runs, takes forever and a day to load, and looks and feels like a Blackberry – except no Lection_1 application anywhere to be found.

By: Kirk Wayland

Kirk Wayland — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:29:10 +0000

OK, Putting the path to directory that contained JAVAC.EXE, (and then rebooting), fixed the build issue. Next issue is that the Simulator does not seem to know about the application. How does one run this on the simulator? I selected DEBUG, (provate and released being the other choices), and hit F5. The simulator runs, takes forever and a day to load, and looks and feels like a Blackberry – except no Lection_1 application anywhere to be found.

By: Kirk Wayland

Kirk Wayland — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:28:44 +0000

I get this error when I try to build… Suggestions?

Building Lection_1
C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.7.0\bin\rapc.exe -quiet import=”..\..\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.7.0\lib\net_rim_api.jar” codename=Lection_1 Lection_1.rapc warnkey=0×52424200;0×52525400;0×52435200 C:\gatekeeper\java\helloworld.java C:\gatekeeper\java\greetingscreen.java
I/O Error: CreateProcess: javac -source 1.3 -target 1.3 -g -O -d C:\DOCUME~1\kwayland\LOCALS~1\Temp\rapc_12b93724.dir -bootclasspath “..\..\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.7.0\lib\net_rim_api.jar” -classpath “..\..\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.7.0\lib\net_rim_api.jar” C:\gatekeeper\java\helloworld.java C:\gatekeeper\java\greetingscreen.java error=2
Error while building project

By: chris

chris — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:19:16 +0000

I also get the error message” C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\rapc.exe -quiet import=..\lib\net_rim_api.jar codename=Lections_1 Lections_1.rapc warnkey=0×52424200;0×52525400;0×52435200 “C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\greetingscreen.java” “C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\helloworld.java”
I/O Error: Cannot run program “javac”: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
Error while building project
when trying to compile.
I have been stuck on this for 2 days and am at my wits end

By: Hank

Hank — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:34:44 +0000

I am completely lost. I am getting the same errors as the others –

C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\rapc.exe -quiet import=..\lib\net_rim_api.jar codename=Lections_1 Lections_1.rapc warnkey=0×52424200;0×52525400;0×52435200 “C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\greetingscreen.java” “C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\helloworld.java”
I/O Error: Cannot run program “javac”: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
Error while building project

I have searched my entire harddrive and do NOT have a file called ‘javac.exe’ anywhere… what am I missing? Is there more to download and install than the JDE (4.7) from the RIM website?

By: sheril

sheril — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:18:16 +0000

really a good one…

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By: moshe

moshe — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:45:23 +0000

When i try to install JDE4.7 it points me to prereq JDK
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
which one do i download for the sun ?

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By: Lee McArthur

Lee McArthur — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:04:03 +0000

This is a great post – I went to school for Computer Science 10 years ago, and this is written so well I feel like I could dip my toe back into development again.

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:08:44 +0000

If you get the error that others have mentioned, you must put the path to javac.exe in your PATH environment variable. To do this, go to System control panel, click Advanced, click Environment Variables, and double click PATH in the “System Variables” box. Enter in the path to the folder that contains javac.exe (mine was “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_19\bin”) after the other lines in the field (add a semicolon). Click OK and exit all the dialog boxes. Restart Blackberry JDE and you should be fine.

Hope this helps.

By: Ale

Ale — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:28:34 +0000

Ok perfect!!! … I’m following you on twitter.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:38:54 +0000

@Ale
Ok, I will add ‘how to send emails’ in the next lesson.

By: Ale

Ale — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:37 +0000

@Fabian
Thanks for the answer, I’m interested in how intereact whit other BlackBerry’s applications, as email or send a file via BlackBerry Messenger. I don’t know If you can talk about it or it’s too complicated. Anyway, I’m sure your second lesson will be as good as this.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:27:26 +0000

@Jim
When you create a project then a folder is created where you define it. ther ein that folder you copy the files.

@Ale
thanks! please post here what you want to see in the next lesson!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:16:31 +0000

I thought I would give this a try but ran into a problem in that I cannot load or copy the two files to be added, Step 4, as I cannot find them. Where are they located. I dowloaded JDE 4.7 and JDE 4.7 components. Any other program requiremtns?

By: Ale

Ale — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:30:46 +0000

Great! Waiting for lesson 2

Thanks