Question

I’ve several buttons registered for context menu

how do I know which button was clicked for the menu to appear?

below is the pseudocode that i’ll be using. I need to do something related to which button clicked (I have few more buttons to be declared), how do I know that the context menu is activated from which button click.

EDIT: I think i didn’t make myself clear, I wanted to know which button was clicked for the menu to appear. Not which menu item is clicked. Anyways, I’ve a solution which I’ll add in pretty soon.

thanks

private static final int SEND_AS_TEXT = Menu.FIRST;
private static final int SEND_AS_IMAGE = Menu.FIRST + 1;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        sendAllBtn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.sendAllBtn);
        sendAllBtn.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        registerForContextMenu(v);
        openContextMenu(v);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo();
        switch(item.getItemId()){
        case SEND_AS_TEXT:
            //do sth related to the button clicked
            break;

        }
        return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
            ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
        menu.add(Menu.NONE, SEND_AS_TEXT, SEND_AS_TEXT, "Send As Text");
        menu.add(Menu.NONE, SEND_AS_IMAGE, SEND_AS_IMAGE, "Send As Image");
    }

Answer 1

Ok, thanks alot for the help from the others which clear my doubts on the getItemId since it returns the ID that I assigned to the menu item.
In my case, I wanted to know which button was clicked before the contextmenu was created.

To do this, I simply create a long variable to store the button that was clicked. The ID of the button can be obtained as in the following:

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
        ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
    menu.setHeaderTitle("Send As..");
    menu.add(Menu.NONE, SEND_AS_TEXT, SEND_AS_TEXT, "Send As Text");
    menu.add(Menu.NONE, SEND_AS_IMAGE, SEND_AS_IMAGE, "Send As Image");
    btnId = v.getId(); //this is where I get the id of my clicked button
}

and later on I’ll only need to refer to this btnId to do whatever I want.