Scrolling won't move - scroll

Question

I have a LWUIT form which contains a list, a number of items has been added to the list, items themselves are strings (I want to make them as statements).
returns
My simple problem is that end user cannot see the whole statements(strings). I tried the below method but the scrolling won't move.
All of form.setScrollableY(true), form.setScrollabelX(true), and form.setScrollable(true).
This is the code
import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
import com.sun.lwuit.layouts.*;
import com.sun.lwuit.*;
public class HelloLWUITMidlet3 extends MIDlet
{
public void startApp()
{
com.sun.lwuit.Display.init(this);
final com.sun.lwuit.Form form = new com.sun.lwuit.Form("");
final com.sun.lwuit.List l = new com.sun.lwuit.List();
l.addItem("MY favourite Science is computer Sciences");
l.addItem("MY favourite computer Science subject is programming");
l.addItem("MY favourite programming language is java ");
form.setScrollableY(true);
form.setScrollableX(true);
form.addComponent(l);
form.show( );
}
public void pauseApp()
{
}
public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional)
{
}
}

Answer 1

First of all, scrolling horizontally back and forth to read content is
really bad UX. This answer will solve only the vertical scrolling issue.
The problem with your code is that you are adding a scrollable (List)
inside another scrollable
(Form). This leads to unexpected results, since it is
not clear which component should handle scrolling. This can be fixed by
using the BorderLayout in the form and placing the list at the center.
...
form.setScrollable(false);
form.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
form.addComponent(BorderLayout.CENTER, l);
...
This will enable vertical scrolling, but the horizontal scrolling will not
work.
Clarification about scrolling:
LWUIT's approach
to scrolling is based on Focus, which means that a Container scrolls
because the focused element is out of the screen. This has the consequence
that LWUIT does not support scrolling elements bigger than the screen and, thus,
that your List will not be scrollable horizontally. (Source:LWUIT mini FAQ )
Suggestion:
The maximum element height is taken as the component height in a List. This
makes the List component adequate to show data that is "pre-formatted" in
a specific way, like contact lists of a folder's details list. If you
want to stack pieces of text of variable length, you should
use a Form with BoxLayoutY and put your text in various TextAreas.
void startApp() {
Display.init()
final Form form = new Form("Title");
addItem(form, "String..");
// as many times as you like
addItem(form, "String..");
form.setLayout(new BoxLayout(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
form.setScrollableY(true);
form.show()
}
void addItem(Form f, String s) {
TextArea t = new TextArea(s);
t.setGrowByContent(true);
f.addComponent(t);
}