What you are doing is highly unusual. I would say no user would anticipate that there would be a menu on a dialog. It's possible that the designers of Honeycomb weren't even thinking of the possibility of this.
On May 18, 8:08 pm, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I have an Activity which appears like a dialog (via applying > theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"), and that Activity has a normal Menu, > inflated from XML. Everything works fine pre-Honeycomb, but when my app has > the "holographic" theme applied on 3.0, there doesn't seem to be a way > display this menu. > > I understand that the "holographic" theme on the calling activity disables > the backward-compatibility menu button in the system bar, and moves the menu > to the ActionBar. But the ActionBar is disabled while my dialog activity is > open, so that's inaccessible. I've tried disabling the ActionBar from within > my dialog activity, and also applying another (non-"holographic") theme to > my dialog, and neither works. I'm not sure what else to try. > > Any ideas from anyone else who's run into a situation like this before? > Unfortunately, I suspect it may be a limitation of the architecture. And > admittedly, having a menu in a Dialog is a bit weird and nonstandard, but it > did work pre-Honeycomb. I'd rather not lose it in the migration. > > Thanks, > > String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
