Blackberry field padding - user-interface

Question

I'm trying to pad an email field with the following snippet:
emailField = new BasicEditField(BasicEditField.FILTER_EMAIL|Field.FIELD_HCENTER|TextField.NO_NEWLINE|Field.HIGHLIGHT_FOCUS|Field.FOCUSABLE);
emailField.setLabel("Email: ");
emailField.setPadding(5, 5, 5, 5);
emailField.setBorder(BorderFactory.createRoundedBorder(new XYEdges(10, 10, 10, 10), 0x0083B0D7, Border.STYLE_SOLID));
Is there a proper way to pad such that there appears no margin between the border and the field background?

Answer 1

Try using setMargin(5,5,5,5) instead of setPadding(5,5,5,5).
Field#setMargin()
Margin is the area outside a field, after the border. It is up to a manager to allocate margins properly since these overlap.
Field#setPadding()
Padding is the area within a field between the content and the border.
Field#SetBorder()
The border is the area within a field outside the padding and before the margin.
UPDATE:
Your are right, replacing setPadding() with setMargin() only, didn't produced the desired result. The reason is the Border you are using, to be more precise its thickness (10) and style (STYLE_SOLID). Decrease the border thickness to 3 and change it style to STYLE_FILLED.
After the aforementioned changes
And now the code snippet:
public class PlayingWithBorders extends MainScreen {
public PlayingWithBorders() {
super(NO_VERTICAL_SCROLL | NO_HORIZONTAL_SCROLL | USE_ALL_HEIGHT | USE_ALL_WIDTH);
VerticalFieldManager vfm = new VerticalFieldManager(USE_ALL_HEIGHT | USE_ALL_WIDTH);
vfm.setBackground(BackgroundFactory.createSolidBackground(Color.CYAN));
BasicEditField emailField = new BasicEditField();
emailField.setLabel("Email: ");
emailField.setPadding(5, 5, 5, 5);
emailField.setMargin(5, 5, 5, 5);
emailField.setBorder(BorderFactory.createRoundedBorder(new XYEdges(3, 3, 3, 3), 0x0083B0D7, Border.STYLE_FILLED));
emailField.setBackground(BackgroundFactory.createSolidBackground(Color.WHITE));
BasicEditField passwordField = new BasicEditField();
passwordField.setLabel("Password: ");
passwordField.setPadding(5, 5, 5, 5);
passwordField.setMargin(5, 5, 5, 5);
passwordField.setBorder(BorderFactory.createRoundedBorder(new XYEdges(3, 3, 3, 3), 0x0083B0D7, Border.STYLE_FILLED));
passwordField.setBackground(BackgroundFactory.createSolidBackground(Color.WHITE));
vfm.add(emailField);
vfm.add(passwordField);
add(vfm);
}