GUI chat room

[mralam]

I need to do the following:

write a Java program to implement the GUI for a chat program. The program should include components attached to a form: a text field, a pop-up choice-group and up to 8 string items which will be messages entered by the user. Users should be presented with two commands, ‘Send’ and ‘Exit’.
Beneath the text field and user selection choice-group, there should always be no more than 8 string items, also identifying which user wrote which message. When a message is added to the group of messages, the text field should be erased ready for the next message. After 8 messages have been added to the group of messages, any additional messages are added to the
end of the group and the first (oldest) message is removed. Another way to describe this is to display only the last 8 messages entered.


Can i get any help here?

Thanks

[nspils]

What is your plan for this project? What components and containers are you going to use [that should be evident from the specifications for the project]? What data structures (if any) are you going to use?

[mralam]

This the code that i did so far.

import javax.microedition.lcdui.Command;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.CommandListener;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Display;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Displayable;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Form;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.TextField;
import javax.microedition.midlet.MIDlet;

public class TextFieldCapture extends MIDlet implements CommandListener {
 private Display display;

 private Form form = new Form("GUI chat");

 private Command send = new Command("Send", Command.SCREEN, 1);

 private Command exit = new Command("Exit", Command.EXIT, 1);

 private TextField textfield = new TextField("Type Your message:", "", 90, TextField.ANY);

 public TextFieldCapture() {
   display = Display.getDisplay(this);
   form.addCommand(exit);
   form.addCommand(send);
   form.append(textfield);
   form.setCommandListener(this);
 }

 public void startApp() {
   display.setCurrent(form);
 }

 public void pauseApp() {
 }

 public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) {
 }

 public void commandAction(Command command, Displayable displayable) {
   if (command == send) {
     textfield.setString("Hello, " + textfield.getString());
     form.removeCommand(send);
   } else if (command == exit) {
     destroyApp(false);
     notifyDestroyed();
   }
 }
}


// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Form form = new Form("Chat GUI");

//command options
TextField textfield =new TextField("TEXT FIELD","",25,TextField.ANY);
form.append(textfield);
display.setCurrent(form);

}

}

But i am stuck here. Any help?

[nspils]

I am not familiar with the microedition package and I don't know anything about a MIDlet.