How to manipulate menu during runtime?

frog · by **frog** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:53 pm

Hallo,

i initialize my menu with help of the callback method "public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)". In this method i also create some member reference to the handed over menu and items i create.

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        public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
 
        {
 
                this.menu = menu;
 
                this.menuPlayItem = menu.add(1, 1, "play");
 
                this.menuPlayItem.setShown(true);
 
                return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
 
        }
 
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During runtime i want to manipulate the menu and items but the references i created before are pointing to null!

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        public void someMethod() 
 
        {
 
                // nullpointer exception
 
                this.menuPlayItem.setShown(false);
 
        }
 
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any suggestions? tipps? isn't it possible to manipulate the menu outside of "onCreateOptionsMenu"?

the menu is there and selectable and so the references SHOULD point to something useful because "onCreateOptionsMenu" was run successful.

greetings from the java frog

x-files · by **x-files** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:06 pm

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@Override
 
    public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
 
        boolean res = super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
 
        boolean haveItems = manager.size() > 0;
 
        menu.setItemShown(SELECT_ID, haveItems);
 
        menu.setItemShown(DELETE_ID, haveItems);
 
        return res; 
 
    }
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frog · by **frog** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:58 pm

ok - really simple solution - somehow i missed it in the documentation :oops:

thx

How to manipulate menu during runtime?

How to manipulate menu during runtime?

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