Extending Layer

[jonberry]

I understand that it's not possible to extend the Layer class from searching the forum.   

This is what I originally wanted to do.

The reason I wanted to do this was to be able to draw some text (high score, etc)
on my J2ME game.

I can draw directly on the gamecanvas, but it's not the right layer I want to draw on.

Is there a way to extend Sprite or TiledLayer and be able to use drawString() on it?
(I don't have an image associated with the text)

Thanks,

Jon

[anydoby]

As far as I'm aware of, no Visibility of layer constructor does not allow this. In the siemens-game-api the visibility of layer constructor was protected and I used it to subclass Layer, but in sun's implementation this is not possible. So sad the only way to subclass a layer is to wright your own implementation of layer and all of the javax.microedition.lcdui.game classes. Luckily you can decompile the WTK jars and take their sourcecode (as did i ) for tiledlayer, sprite, etc. it works fine on my nokia 6630.

Or, you can take source from any other opensource, there are a lot of implementations of gameapi in MIDP1.0. Though the main drawback will be that your api wont work as fast as natively supported one.