Using the Android Menu button

[Andras]

No doubt a foolishly easy question, but no sign of this in the Guide that I can see (which probably means I've used the wrong search terms) but:

How do I access the Android Menu button - the one on the device, not one created in the program?

Thanks!

John

 

[cmweb]

Just create your menu entries with

Activity.AddMenuItem

or

Activity.AddMenuItem2

If the user pushs the hardware menu button, your menu entries will appear.

Best regards,

Carsten

 

[Andras]

Just create your menu entries with

Activity.AddMenuItem

or

Activity.AddMenuItem2

If the user pushs the hardware menu button, your menu entries will appear.

Best regards,

Carsten

Thanks!

John

 

[Penko]

And depending on what you have specified in the "eventName" argument, you will get the event like thisprovided that I have used "Menu" as my argument value.

Sub Menu_Click
    Dim txt As String
    
    txt = Sender
    
    Select txt
    Case "Toggle Set"
      ' some logic
    Case "Settings"
               ' some other logic
      StartActivity(zPreferenceActivity.screen.CreateIntent)
    End Select
End Sub

 

[mhdi]

Hi all,

How can I detect if someone presses menu button once or holds it down for a long press?

Menu button press -> Do something
Menu button long press -> Do something else

I'm talking about the physical button on device.

Thankyou

 

[Erel]

You can use Activity_KeyPress and Activity_KeyUp to calculate the duration of the click.

 

[Penko]

Indeed you can use date ticks difference(KeyUp minus KeyPress) or work with timers.

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[EduardoElias]

Hi there,

There is a config or properties options on the menu in several applications that I want to have on my apk

For example, firefox or the stock browser on Android 4 has a menu (3 dots) that when clicked open the menu options and i have the config option.

It seems to me that there is a standard presentation of the config options, taking for base these 2 browsers.

How is it called? Is there a tutorial/example of creating it?

Thanks

 

[Djembefola]

Hi there,

There is a config or properties options on the menu in several applications that I want to have on my apk...It seems to me that there is a standard presentation of the config options...
How is it called? Is there a tutorial/example of creating it?

Thanks

take a look at the
preference activity tutorial