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I have been trying to create a textfield on the screen but I always get an error saying that GameContainer should be casted to GUIContext.
I looked at the GUITest, followed it exactly as it was written there and ran into the same problem.

When I cast it, the application just crashes saying that GameContainer can not be casted to GUIContext.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Hello ac99, can I get the source code part when you are trying to create a textfield? I can help you better with that hopefully .

I copied and pasted everything everyone did and didn't have any success. I ended up with the same result of casting to GUIContext. I then thought about that the slick-ae.jar file that I have been using isn't made properly with textfield... so I removed the build path of slick-ae.jar and added slick.jar to the build path and surprisingly enough it works... No more errors!
I guess it's my slick-ae.jar file that has been causing the problem.

Thanks for the help everyone.
Next step for me... fix the slick-ae.jar file!

i have not tested your code, but I believe that unicode font uses dynamic textures in the load glyphs method. By this i mean that the computer has to generate the image instead of loading it from a file. So far, I have not managed to get dynamic textures to work on android, but even if i could, there is a problem with dynamic textures on android. whenever the game loses focus, all of the textures are lost. when you resume the game, the textures loaded from files are automatically re-loaded, but dynamic textures are still lost. it may be possible to rebuild the texture when the game resumes, but is much easier to do what davedes recommended: use bitmap fonts.

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Both TrueTypeFont and UnicodeFont use AWT for font rendering... It's a wonder either would work at all on Android.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... but I tried to make a new slick-ae.jar file and i end up with the same problem i had at the beginning.
I also tried to use the gc.getDefaultFont() but I still end up with the same error: "cast argument gc to GUIContext"
(TextField is driving me insane!!!)

Thanks for all the input that has been coming.
Much appreciated.

Awesome, that fixed my problem with the GUIContext thanks mortias!

Now I've run into another problem. When I went to test the textfield on an android device, when selected it doesn't open the virtual keyboard. How would I go about getting the virtual keyboard to show up on when the textfield is selected??