Displaying text on screen while connecting not working

Question

Hi all,
I'm building a game to be played over Bluetooth. While the connection is made, I want to display a text message to the user stating the connection is made. Everything seems to work allright, but the messge is not shown. What goes wrong?
Some code. I have a MyMIDlet, that creates MyGame. The MyGame object is responsible for creating the connection. MyGame implements Runnable
public class MyGame implements Runnable {
     // Some code omitted
     public void run() {
          createSplashScreen();
                 // More code omitted
     private void createSplashScreen() {
System.out.println ("myGame.createSplashScreen, informing players on connection process");          
          String[] message;
          if (isServer) {
               message = new String[5];
               message[0] = "Waiting";
               message[1] = "on an";
               message[2] = "Opponent";
               message[3] = "to Join";
               message[4] = "the Game";
          else {
               message = new String[3];
               message[0] = "Searching";
               message[1] = "for a Game";
               message[2] = "to Join";
          // Create the canvas and set it to the current display
System.out.println ("myGame.createSplashScreen, creating SplashScreen");
          mySplashScreen = new MySplashScreen(message, FONT);
          mySplashScreen.addCommand(myMIDlet.getExitCommand());
          mySplashScreen.setCommandListener(myMIDlet.getCommandListener() );
          myMIDlet.setCanvas(mySplashScreen);
          mySplashScreen.repaint();
     }The previous code creates a MySplashScreen object:
public class BluePongSplashScreen extends Canvas {
         // Code omitted
     public MySplashScreen (String [] theMessage, Font theFont) {
          messageLength = theMessage.length;
          message = new String [messageLength];
          System.arraycopy(theMessage, 0, message, 0, messageLength);
          font = theFont;
          // Get dimensions screen
          width  = getWidth();
          height = getHeight();
          // Start displaying message at first position
          messageIndex = messageLength - 1;
    public void showNotify() {
System.out.println ("mySplashScreen.showNotify, creating new mytTask");
         mytTask = new MyTimerTask(this);
        new Timer().scheduleAtFixedRate(mytTask, 1500, 1000);
     public void paint (Graphics graphics){
System.out.println ("mySplashScreen.paint, repainting message screen");          
          int textX = width/2;
          int textY = height;
          // Clear screen
          graphics.setColor(COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE);
          graphics.fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
          // Set font color
          graphics.setColor(COLOR_WHITE);
          // Write message word by word on the screen
          messageIndex = messageIndex % messageLength;
          for (int i = 0; i <= messageIndex; i++) {
System.out.println ("mySplashScreen.paint, message[" + i + "]=" + message);
               graphics.drawString(message[i], textX, textY,
                         Graphics.TOP | Graphics.HCENTER);
               textY += font.getHeight();
And then the last code of the problem, the MyTimeTask object:
public class MyTimerTask extends TimerTask {
      * The canvas repainted periodically
     private MySplashScreen mysScreen;
      * Constructs the timer task
      * @param theScreen the canvas to be repainted
     public MyTimerTask (MySplashScreen theScreen) {
          mysScreen = theScreen;
      * Task that repaints the splash screen
     public void run () {
System.out.println ("mytTask.run, increasing message index");
          mysScreen.increaseMessageIndex();
          mysScreen.repaint();
}Here is some logging I copied from the text box of the WTK25 window:
myMIDlet.commandAction: Thread myGame ended.
myGame.createSplashScreen, informing players on connection process
myGame.run: isGameCompleted=false
mySplashScreen.showNotify, creating new mytTask
mySplashScreen.paint, repainting message screen
mySplashScreen.paint, message[0]=Waiting
mySplashScreen.paint, message[1]=on an
mySplashScreen.paint, message[2]=Opponent
mySplashScreen.paint, message[3]=to Join
mySplashScreen.paint, message[4]=the Game
mytTask.run, increasing message index
mySplashScreen.increaseMessageIndex, index=5
mySplashScreen.paint, repainting message screen
mySplashScreen.paint, message[0]=Waiting
mytTask.run, increasing message index
mySplashScreen.increaseMessageIndex, index=1
mySplashScreen.paint, repainting message screen
mySplashScreen.paint, message[0]=Waiting
mySplashScreen.paint, message[1]=on an
mytTask.run, increasing message indexSo clearly, the objects are created, and doing (almost) all their work, except displaying the text on the screen.
Anyone knows how to solve this problem?
Maik

Answer 1

A Reset should help.
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Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and Volume Down button simultaneously for at least eight seconds or until the Apple logo appears. You may need to repeat this step.