[arunk]

Is there any way to close a menu manually?

when one of my menu is open and i am pressing red button, my application goes to background. when i comes back to the application the menu will be open.

In some cases its ok for me, but in some cases i want to close that menu..

Please suggest a solution for this.....

[Foxglove]

Wirelessly posted

Hit the menu key (left of trackball and) select close or use the back key (to right of trackball beside red key)

[arunk]

I need to know how we can do this through program....

I tried to implement ESCAPE key event but its not working...

[akosnitzky]

Wirelessly posted (Verizon 8830)

There should be a one button shortcut to close apps but there is not.

[arunk]

somebody please tell me a way to close a menu without pressing a key..

(through code)

[jfisher]

Not tried it but something like this might work, add it to your mainscreen class:

public void onExposed() {
this.getMenu(Menu.INSTANCE_DEFAULT).close();
}

[arunk]

Thanks for the code you gave...

Unfortunately i can't use this code...

because my menu comes up after the exposed event is occured...

In my application i am getting an unwanted menu and i want to close that..

when i open a screen from my main screen and close that screen, main screens menu comes up.

for main screen
onExposed event , the visibility of the screen is false.

then it goes to make menu method there also the visibility of the screen is false.

after makemenu the visibility state becomes true.

I tried your code on visibility change, still this menu comes up

[simon.hain]

how about overwriting makemenu and call menu.deleteall to remove all menu entries?
anyhow, some strange behaviour you got there!

[arunk]

deleting all items from menu will give an <empty menu> when the menu is invoked...,

is there any way by which <empty menu> will not come when no menu items are there in the menu?

I can set a flag for the exceptional case which i am getting and if the flag is true i will delete all menuitems. But still a menu with<empty menu> entry will come. how can i remove that also?

[jfisher]

Can you post a code-snippet showing the behavior you're describing? otherwise we're all just playing a guessing game.

If I'm reading what you say correctly the MainScreen onExposed method isn't firing when you return to your application because the menu is open (and therefore the screen isn't exposed - this is guesswork, not 100% sure). What you could do here is use:

public class myApp extends UiApplication {
MyScreen screen = new MyScreen();

public static void main(String[] args) {
myApp instance = new myApp();
instance.enterEventDispatcher();
}

public myApp() {
pushScreen(screen);
}

public void activate() {
screen.getMenu(Menu.INSTANCE_DEFAULT).close();
}
}

'activate' is a method within your UiApplication class that is called when your app is brought to the foreground.

[arunk]

on exposed event is getting fired.. inside that i am checking whether the screen is visible or not... when on exposed event is occurring screen.isvisible() is returning false. then the makemenu event is getting fired. there also visibility is false. once the menu is opened, the screens visibility is becoming true...

and this problem happens only when the screen contains an ObjectListField.

what happens in my case is I have a screen with an ObjectListField, which contains 5 items. i have add, edit and delete in my menu.

when i delete an item a new popup screen comes up where u have to enter password. enter password and click trackball if the password is correct, the password screen will get closed and item gets deleted.

then you will come back to the screen where the ObjectListField is there.

then the above metioned problem happens ie the menu of the screen is poping up...



if you edit or add new enements, a new screen will come and you can add elements to the ObjectListField and you save it.the screen will get closed and will come back to the ObjectListField's screen.

in this case menu is not poping up in simulators, but when u install it and run in blackberry device, it comes up

[jfisher]

so this isn't to do with pressing the red button and sending the app to the background? if the behavior only happens in a device and not the emulator it could be a bug, but i'm confused as i'm reading different things. if the popup is modal you could be returning false from the click event which is firing the menu after you pop the password screen - but without seeing the code i can't help anymore (and given the behavior is only seen on a real device it may well be a bug). anyone else have better clarity? i'm all out of ideas.

[arunk]

Sorry, in between i posted for another problem i was facing in this thread...

That unnecessary menu popping up problem, it got solved...

In this problem,


I tried your code:

public void onExposed() {
this.getMenu(Menu.INSTANCE_DEFAULT).close();
}


if the menu is open and you press red button and comes back to the application again, the menu is still open....

I tried some other methods also to close the menu, but menu is not getting closed....

[jfisher]

then i suggested trying the activate method... - i'm bailing out on this one, have spent too much time on it.