Hangman with J2ME

I had intended to start with another mobile game which would have sprites and collision detection and action and sword fighting and what not :-)
But the plans ran into rough weather as I could not create the images. When I tried creating the hero, my wife told me it does not even resemble a human or an alien. Forget about the sword. Suffice it to be said that the sword was a cross between a monkey's tail and some threads running here and there. So I haven't yet given up the hope of working on the game. It just meant that I need to spend more time in using GIMP to figure it out.
Well so I started work on a version of Hangman game. The idea was to create a simple game which will have a dictionary of all the cartoon serials that Kush watches. And then to add more dictionary with other words that we want him to learn. See the hidden evil intention of making Kush learn even while he is happy gaming :-)
Now this hangman sounded very easy theoretically. But it is a tough nut to crack...
After 3 days of working on it, I have the framework ready, but the game logic is not working properly right now. I had realized yesterday that the toughest part was to represent the keys and to get the user input. I came up with a smart work around, but the trouble with being smart is it leads one to uncharted territories. As of now, the only trouble is to make the selection go around the keys so that the user can type in the characters. I hope to complete it tomorrow.