Question

I want to put a context menu on a listview. This seems very simple to do but I am getting some interesting behavior. The listview has two fields, a textview and an editText. The long press opens up the menu on the EditText but nowhere else on the listview.
Here are the pieces of code.

public class ManageClass extends ListActivity {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.manageclass);

      //Tons of not relevant stuff that I would be happy to provide.
                    pfdata = new PortfolioData(this);
            try {
        Cursor cursor = getClasses();
        showClasses(cursor);

    } finally {
        pfdata.close();
    }
}

  private Cursor getClasses() {

    String sql = "select c._id, c.NAME as NAME , c.percentage as PERCENTAGE "
            + "from asset_classes c;";

    SQLiteDatabase db = pfdata.getReadableDatabase();

    Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(sql, null);
    startManagingCursor(cursor);
    return cursor;

}

private void showClasses(Cursor cursor) {

    adapter = new MySimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.classrow, cursor,
            FROM, TO, t);

    // Log.d("TEST", Integer.toString(adapter.getCount()));

    setListAdapter(adapter);
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                //I've tried moving this line around but it hasn't made a difference.
    registerForContextMenu(getListView());
}

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
    ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {


      menu.add(Menu.NONE, 0, 0, "A");
      menu.add(Menu.NONE, 1, 1, "B");
      menu.add(Menu.NONE, 2, 2, "C");

}

Lastly, the layout itself which I admit is overly complicated

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="300px"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/TCLabel" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/classtotalpercentage"
        android:layout_width="109dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="50px" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/AddClassLabel"
        android:layout_width="200px"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0.38"
        android:text="@string/AddClassLabel" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/addclass_button"
        android:layout_width="120dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/addclassbutton_label" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/grey"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:padding="10sp" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/assetclassHeader"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/assetclassHeader"
        android:width="200dp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/percentageHeader"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/assetclassHeader"
        android:text="@string/percentageHeader"
        android:width="100dp" />
</LinearLayout>

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:fadeScrollbars="false"
        android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"
        android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay"
        android:scrollbars="vertical" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@android:id/empty"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/no_list_data" />
</RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

I appreciate any advice. I would like the menu on the textview and not the edittext, if possible.

An update. I have found that it has something to do with the EditText. If I change it to a textview or remove it alltogether, then everything works as it should.

Answer 1

I had a similiar problem with checkboxes and found the issue was caused by the checkbox getting the focus. I changed the attribue to:
android:focusable=”false”

and it now works correctly.