Question

I`m trying to request search from ActionBarSherlock.

My class extends SherlockListActivity.

This is how I`m adding Menu button to the ActionBar:

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        menu.add("Save")
            .setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search)
            .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM |
                MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);
        return true;
    }

The problem is that I am unable to invoke it by id:

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch(item.getItemId())  {
            case ?????: {
                onSearchRequested();
                return true;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

How people usually solve this problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you inflate you menu from an XML menu file you will set an id which you can then use in your onOptionsItemSelected method. Like this:

XML

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">     
    <item android:id="@+id/menu_search"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_search"
    android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
    android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" android:title="@string/search"/>
</menu>

Fragment

 @Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {

        case R.id.menu_search:
            onSearchRequested();

            return true;

        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}