Hi, folks:

How do you create a drop-down menu? I can't see a "MenuView" or anything like it in the XML Outline editor and I'd like to create a drop-down with a bunch of options.

An example is in the Edit Contact screen where you choose a Ringtone.

Thanks,
Charles

what do you mean with drop down menu? A spinner or a PopupMenu?

PopupMenu's kan be created from Activity.onCreateContextMenu or in Views themself.

MrSnowflake wrote:what do you mean with drop down menu? A spinner or a PopupMenu?

PopupMenu's kan be created from Activity.onCreateContextMenu or in Views themself.

I don't think I'm talking about either. Go to your Contacts application, then press the Menu button and tap the New Contact button at screen bottom. When the New Contact screen appears, scroll down until you get to "Other Information". Immediately below that heading is "Ringtone" with a control that should read "Default" (or whatever you've most recently chosen). What is that long, rectangular control with the down-arrow button at right? Is that a spinner, a pop-up menu, or something else? I haven't seen it in the documentation.

In Windows this is called a drop-down menu because when you press it, the options drop down underneath it.

Thanks,
Charles

That's a spinner: check you api demo's (on the emu, if it isn't on the device), then go to Views -> Spinner. On the emu it's the same menu as the ringtone thingy.

MrSnowflake wrote:That's a spinner: check you api demo's (on the emu, if it isn't on the device), then go to Views -> Spinner. On the emu it's the same menu as the ringtone thingy.

Thanks! That took care of it. But why in the world is it called a "spinner"?

That's easy: It's called a spinner because ...

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I don't know really.

Back in the m5 days Spinners used to actually look more like what you'd expect a spinner to look like (imagine an animated carousel that only displays one item at a time). Spinners changed to look more like standard dropdown lists since then. The name no longer really matches the behavior.

Thanks, guys, for your help! I'm on my way.