Accessing android menu

[Avi]

I tried to do something like this:

var frame = frameModule.topmost();

    var activity = frame.android.activity;

    frame.android.showActionBar = true;

    activity.onPrepareOptionsMenu = function(menu) {
        var menuInflater = activity.getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(getResource("R.menu.main"), menu);
    };

    activity.invalidateOptionsMenu();

But onPrepareOptionsMenu doesn't get called.

Is there a hook for this?

[Rossen Hristov]

Hi,

You can't append the method like this.

Anyway, I suppose that what you are trying to do is provide options menu for one of your pages. We are currently working on this feature, so you will not have to touch Android-specific stuff like you are trying to do. Here is an example of how one would be able to specify the options menu once we finish this feature:

<Page loaded="pageLoaded">
  <Page.optionsMenu>
    <MenuItem text="{{ options[0].text }}" tap="optionTap"/>
    <MenuItem text="with icon" tap="optionTap" icon="~/app/test-icon.png"/>
  </Page.optionsMenu>
  <StackLayout>
    <Button text="button" />
  </StackLayout>
</Page>

Let us know if this is not what you are trying to achieve and explain the exact scenario that you are after.

Regards,
Rossen Hristov
Telerik

 

 

[Avi]

Yes, that's pretty much what i'm trying to do.

[Rossen Hristov]

Hi,

Cool. You will have this feature when we release the next version in April.

Regards,
Rossen Hristov
Telerik