Questions tagged [options-menu]

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How to disable options menu for landscape view?

I have an options menu, but don't want it to appear when the screen is flipped horizontal. I have the following method to determine lanscape, but need to know how to disable the options menu. private boolean isLandscape() { if…
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Android: adding text color,background and font size to optionsmenu

I tried a lot to add the font size,text color and background for my options menu but couldn't able to solve, how to do this for the following code?Help is always appreciated.....!, Thanks. @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu…
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How to programatically change an item in the options menu?

When the user clicks on the Menu button I present a few menu items. One of them is a Sign Out button. I want to be able to change the text between "Sign In" and "Sign Out" depending on a boolean value I am tracking. How can I programmatically change…
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Android: Custom size of menu item

I am building an app and one of the activities has an options menu. I was wondering if it is possible to decide the size of one of the items on the menu. I mean, the menu already has 3 options, and I want to add a fourth one, but keeping the other…
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How to create an optionsMenu in an Android's TabActivity

I try to create options menu in a TabActivity. But instead of it I see for every activity within tabbar its own options menu. Is it possible change this behaviour? And if yes, how? Thank you
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Android: Dynamically change location of Options Menu

I have a drawing activity that creates a custom 'canvas' View that occupies the entire screen, allowing the user to draw on it. I have a requirement to lock the Activity to the portrait orientation, as the drawing app is a sketchpad replacement, and…
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How to make options menu after drawer button?

I want a options menu after the drawer toggle button like this app. And I want options menu in left, write both sides (don't wanna compromise any). Can anyone tell me how to do that? -: My tool bar :- Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)…
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Android: changing drawable states of option menu items seems to have side-effects

In my onCreateOptionsMenu() I have basically the following: public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { menu.add(Menu.NONE, MENU_ITEM_INSERT, Menu.NONE, R.string.item_menu_insert).setShortcut('3', …
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Option menu of the previous fragment is preserved after switching fragment

I have an activity with a navigation drawer and fragments (Fragment Lvl 1). One of these fragments contains nested children(Fragment Lvl 2) with a viewpager adapter. When I add an option menu to the nested child (Lvl 2) it stills appearing on the…
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Android - checkable buttons on options menu

Can anyone point in the direction of any tutorials that show how to create an options menu with clicakble checks like in the picture below: alt text http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1221/deviceit.png I have tried as follows: /** Menu creation…
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Intercept onOptionsItemSelected

I have a top level TabHost that implements the onCreateOptionsMenu method. And I want sub-activities (those within the tabs) to be able to intercept the options menu via onOptionsItemSelected. Like for example, in the options menu I have an item…
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Android: What could cause an Options Menu inflation error?

I am receiving an inflation error when pressing the Menu button and adding a menu item in the onCreateOptionsMenu method. I've included some of the error below. The code is as follows, and works if I try it on its own and not as part of my activity…
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How to change SSMS warning settings on SQL without any queries?

I believe there is a SSMS setting somewhere in the options menu to allow changes to tables that require dropping and recreating. How do i do it? I hope I'm being clear with my question.
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Can't click Options Menu if initial menu size is zero

Lets assume, that I have two activities. One called MainActivity, and the other called PopupActivity. I want to have a context menu in MainActivity, after the user visited PopupActivity. Main [no menu] --> startActivity() /…
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optionsmenu not working since updating eclipse with sdkmanager

I've an app that i've been developing for around 6 months. It uses an options menu on some of the screens. It has always worked until i updated eclipse from api ~14 to 17. I also updated the tools as well. The options menu is no longer present can…
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