Styling components programmatically in Codename One?

Question

try this and the label is not visible. Any help on styling components?

public void start() {
    if(current != null){
        current.show();
        return;
    }
    Form hi = new Form("Hi World");
    Component label = new Label();

    Style styleLabel= new Style();
    styleLabel.setPadding(Component.RIGHT, 10);
    styleLabel.setPadding(Component.TOP, 10);
    styleLabel.setPadding(Component.LEFT, 10);
    styleLabel.setMargin(Component.LEFT, 10);

    label.setSelectedStyle(styleLabel);
    label.setUnselectedStyle(styleLabel);

    hi.addComponent(label);
    hi.show();
}

Shai Almog Shai Almog · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-29T15:52:39

Giving the label text or an icon would help... This has nothing to do with the style. e.g.:

   Component label = new Label("Hi");

FYI, its better to style as:

  label.getUnselectedStyle().setPadding(Component.RIGHT, 10);

Rather than allocating your own Style object. There are some "niche" complexities in that approach especially when reusing the Style object.

Styling components programmatically in Codename One?

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