Generic way of handling SoftKeys in Canvas (low level API)

Folks, is there a way to handle SOFTKEY presses in J2ME. I am aware of how Nokia does it, but, given a Canvas, is it possible to write a cross-device-protable code which can detect which SOFTKEY has been pressed

hello, i have had similar issues when trying to find a portable solution to using softkeys with the canvas. In the end i decided that the cross-phone support was not possible for the left and right softkeys(nokia left softkey = 6, moto left soft key =21?? or something like that?), however i did find that the fire and arrow keys are mapped the same for almost all phones and brands, instead of using the softkeys, i click once to display a pop-up menu, where the user can move up or down then select again with the fire button.. seems to work pretty well. so no softkeys?.../freddie

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In FCE export as Quicktime Movie NOT any flavour of Quicktime Conversion. Select chapter markers if you have them. If everything is on one system unchecked the Make Movie Self Contained button. Drop the QT file into iDVD

Best way to handle multiple currencies

I have a requirement that users should be able to report against an OLAP cube in a currency of their choice (from a list of about 20) and was wondering what the best way to handle this might be.
One option would be to have a currency dimension containing the list of valid currencies and then to pre-calculate measures in each of the currencies and store them in the cube. However the downside of this is that the resultant cube would be 20 times larger than a cube in a single currency, take longer to maintain etc. I could of course partition the cube by currency to improve reporting performance since users would only report in one currency at a time.
Another alternative would be to dynamically calculate the measures based on exchange rates - I guess this could either be done in the cube itself or as part of the reporting code. However since exchange rates are daily, this would obvioulsy prevent me from aggregating data up the time dimension (all measures are at the day level).
Is there any standard way of doing this and what are the pro's and con's?
Thanks,
Chris

Sorry - messed up - I should have posted this in the OLAP forum.....

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