no results showing on Sony Ericsson z710

[Rick]

Hello-
I just installed the Chinese Dictionary for MIDS on my mobile phone- Sony Ericsson z710.

It looks like a great program, but for some reason it is not displaying any results for me when I press "translate".

I can input English or Chinese, but it just returns blank, although a scroll bar appears (as if a list of translations might be there).

I have version 3.1.2.

I am in China, the phone came with the Chinese already on it (and English).

Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
Thanks for any help.

[Gert]

Hallo Rick,

in the Settings dialogue, can you deactivate the 'Coloured display' and then try again ?

Regards,
Gert

[Rick]

Thanks Gert, but I've tried that and done all kinds of fiddling with the settings.  No success.

But I did manage to find 2.7.0 and that works fine.


Rick

[Gert]

Oh, 2.7.0 works

Well, we need to find someone with Java experience who will track down those problems that exist on some SonyEricsson platforms, probably best with the SonyEricsson 'on-device debugger'; otherwise we will not get rid of these SonyEricsson problems.

Anyway, thank you for testing !!

Regards,
Gert

[NewAgeMobile]

In my case, I think I managed to solve this by replacing the Font.stringWidth() calls in StringColourItem with a workaround;
It appears that on the device (in my case SE K800i), some of the 'non defined' characters are breaking the function.

see also: http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=145.0

[Gert]

One remark: Rick reported that also with deactivated 'Coloured display' this problem exits. StringColourItems are only used when 'Coloured display' is activated. For deactivated 'Coloured display' the built-in StringItems are used.

Gert

[NewAgeMobile]

My findings on the SonyEricsson (KVM) Bug:
http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=172.msg859#msg859