Questions tagged [menu]
A menu is a user interface mechanism that provides the user a means to view and execute application operations. (Generic; please use platform and/or language tags when possible instead)
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How to copy text programmatically in my Android app?
I'm building an Android app and I want to copy the text value of an EditText widget. It's possible for the user to press Menu+A then Menu+C to copy the value, but how would I do this programmatically?
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How to change menu item text dynamically in Android
I'm trying to change the title of a menu item from outside of the onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) method.
I already do the following;
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
try ...
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CSS: bolding some text without changing its container's size
I have a horizontal navigation menu, which is basically just a <ul> with the elements set side-by-side. I do not define width, but simply use padding, because I would like the widths to be ...
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Changing Locale within the app itself
My users can change the Locale within the app (they may want to keep their phone settings in English but read the content of my app in French, Dutch or any other language ...)
Why is this working ...
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XSLT getting last element
I am trying to find the last element in my xml, which looks like:
<list>
<element name="A" />
<element name="B" >
<element name="C" />
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Android custom dropdown/popup menu
How do I do a custom dropdown/popup menu anchored to a button?
I need it to work like the popup menu (anchored to a view), and do something when I click an item from the menu.
How do I add items to ...
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Android: create a popup that has multiple selection options
I've been searching around trying to figure out how to create a popup or a dialog that has 4 options to choose from.
I see this picture on the Android developer site:
Does anyone know how to code ...
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<nav> or <menu> (HTML5)
W3Schools.com and I'm pretty sure I remember seeing W3C.org state that <menu> should be used for Toolbar menus and listing form control commands.
So, which one should I use for my main menu? ...
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How to get selected value of a dropdown menu in ReactJS
I'm using react and I want to get the value of the selected option of a dropdown in react but I don't know how. Any suggestions? thanks!
My dropdown is just a select like:
<select id = "dropdown"&...
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Changing text color of menu item in navigation drawer
I'm trying to add a night theme for my app and I've wasted nearly three hours just trying to make the text and icons in my navigation drawer turn white along with the dark background. Here is the way ...
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'setHasOptionsMenu(Boolean): Unit' is deprecated. Deprecated in Java
How do I declare a menu inside of Android fragment? The method that I had used previously is now deprecated.
Originally:
override fun onCreateView(...): View {
setHasOptionsMenu(true)
}...
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How to update a menu item shown in the ActionBar?
I have an Activity that has 2 fragments. Both are ListFragments and both contribute MenuItems to the Menu. I have one MenuItem that I've set the attribute android:showAsAction to have it show as a ...
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How can I make content appear beneath a fixed DIV element?
My intention is to create a menu at the top of the page which remains at the top of the page even when the user scrolls (like Gmail's recent feature which has the commonly-used buttons scrolling down ...
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What is the hamburger menu icon called and the three vertical dots icon called? [closed]
Google and some other developers have introduced us to what some have called the
hamburger menu button and now the 3 vertical dots button or vertical ellipsis.
What is the official name of these ...
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How to make the HTML link activated by clicking on the <li>?
I have the following markup,
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="#">Something1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Something2</a></li>
<...
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Place a dividing line in a menu in WPF
In XAML, how do I put a standard dividing line in a menu?
eg
<MenuItem Header="_File" Name="m_fileMenu">
<MenuItem Header="_Open" Command="ApplicationCommands.Open"/>
<!-- ...
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Android invalidateOptionsMenu() for API < 11
I used ActivityCompat.invalidateOptionsMenu(MainActivity.this); so that my menu item "refresh" can automatically be enabled/disabled without the using have to touch the "Menu" option (imagine the ...
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creating a menu after a long click event on a list view
I have a list view connected to a database, showing a all the entries. I want a menu to show up if the user long clicks a item in the listview(database entry), showing options to edit or delete the ...
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Android : Get view Reference to a Menu Item
I plan to use quick actions UI pattern in my application. Android Quick Actions UI Pattern . The quick action window needs a pivot view to stick to.
quickAction.show(View pivotView);
I intend ...
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active menu item - asp.net mvc3 master page
I've been scanning around trying to find an appropriate solution for assigning "active/current" class to menu items from the master page. The line is split down the middle with regards of whether to ...
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Searchview doesn't work since app compat
Since I implented app compat my searchview doesn't work anymore:
Process: com.laurenswuyts.witpa, PID: 26666
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android....
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Differences between .ContextMenu and .ContextMenuStrip
What are the differences between .ContextMenu and .ContextMenuStrip in Windows Forms?
I already know what a ContextMenu is, but how is ContextMenuStrip different from ContextMenu?
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How can I refresh the ActionBar when onPrepareOptionsMenu switched menu entries?
Within my apps I often enable/disable menu entries and do make them visible from onPrepareOptionsMenu.
Today I started to add the android:showAsAction menu attribute to some of my Android 2.x apps to ...
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Get rid of -webkit-padding-start: 40px
I am working on adding a menu to a map. The menu is working fine except I noticed there is always a padding to the left no matter what CSS applied to the menu. The padding seems to be originated from (...
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Android Create a simple menu programmatically
I'm trying to create a simple menu with one button that will call a method to clear the array. I don't want to use xml because all I need is one button.
Something like this -
public boolean ...
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When to use ellipsis after menu items
In pretty much all applications that have a menu bar, some of the items have an ellipsis (...) after them, and some don't. Is there a well known convention on when to put that ellipsis there and when ...
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Twitter Bootstrap add active class to li
Using twitter bootstrap, and I need to initiate active class to the li portion of the main nav. Automagically.
We use php not ruby.
Sample nav :
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="/"&...
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How to open the options menu programmatically?
I would like to open the optionsMenu programmatically without a click on the menu key from the user. How would I do that?
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WPF menu item with image
How to define MenuItem.Icon so that the MenuItemHeader text would be placed below the menu item image?Thanks for help!
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Adding a right click menu to an item
I have been searching for a while for a simple right-click menu for a single item. For example if I right-click on a picture I want a little menu to come up with my own labels: Add, Remove etc. If ...
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How to connect menu click with action in Qt Creator?
I am completely new to Qt.
I started with a new Qt4 GUI Application.
Using the designer, I have created a menu like so:
File
- Exit
How do I get an action associated with the menu item?
I found ...
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Is it possible to grey out (not just disable) a MenuItem in Android?
There's a question for the same functionality on Blackberry, and a few different threads referred to this bug (which has since been closed without resolution as far as I can tell), but I haven't found ...
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A vertical Separator control in a Menu, Toolbar, StackPanel, etc. - Is it possible?
I want to use the Separator control in a vertical way (Lets say in a horizontal StackPanel).
Searching around I found this method but it doesn't use the Separator control rather it uses borders and ...
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How to change Options menu dots color? [duplicate]
I want to change Options menu's dots color to white. I tried to add image for this but dose not work. How to do this?
menu xml :
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/...
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Call method when home button pressed
I have this method in one of my Android Activities:
@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
{
if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK)
{
Log.d("Test", "Back button ...
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Android adding a submenu to a menuItem, where is addSubMenu()?
I want to add a submenu inside my OptionsMenu to a menuItem, programatically according to my parameters. I've checked "MenuItem" in android sdk and there is no addSubMenu() method!, although you can ...
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How can I get the options menu of my Activity?
In some methods of my Activity I want to check the title of menu or know if it is checked or not. How can I get Activity's menu. I need something like this.getMenu()
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Android Change Navigation Drawer Menu Items Text programmatically
I have the new Navigation Drawer in my app and I want to change the navigation view menu items title text dynamically from code. I have watched many posts but I can't figure out, how can I do this. ...
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Drop-down menu that opens up/upward with pure css
I've created a dropdown menu with pure CSS and I've gotten it to a place that I like except I want it to be "drop-up" not "drop-down" since the menu bar is going at the bottom of the layout. What I ...
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How to make jQuery UI nav menu horizontal?
I love the jQuery UI stuff!
I like the navigation menu, but I can't seem to get it horizontal. I've got to be missing something that's a cinch.
Anyone know how to change the CSS? I tried this but it ...
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Add Active Navigation Class Based on URL
I'm trying to add an active class (i.e. class="active") to the appropriate menu list item based upon the page it is on once the page loads. Below is my menu as it stands right now. I've tried every ...
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How to make a HTML list appear horizontally instead of vertically using CSS only?
I need this because I want to make a menu (which is made from a HTML list) appear horizontally.
I prefer not to use absolute positioning since it might become messy when I start changing the layout ...
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How do I generate a custom menu/sub-menu system using wp_get_nav_menu_items in WordPress?
I have an html structure that requires customization of the wp_nav_menu code.
This is the html I need to generate:
<ul class="main-nav">
<li class="item">
<a href="http://...
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Android: Programmatically detect if device has hardware menu button
I'm currently struggling with this issue. I need to check if the device, where the app is installed, has a hardware menu key. Because it is not existing on some devices like Galaxy Nexus, I'm showing ...
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What is a WAI-ARIA compliant implementation for navigation bar/menu
We are in the process of implementing (i.e. adding) WAI-ARIA support to the main navigation menu of a web portal. Menu is the one shown here:
Menu is implemented by means of classic <ul> / <...
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How to change background color popup menu android
I generate each option of menu from querying database.
Here is my code.
final PopupMenu popupMenu = new PopupMenu(getBaseContext(), v);
SQLiteDatabase db = AdapterDb.getReadableDatabase();
Cursor ...
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Android MenuItemCompat.getActionView is Deprecated
I am implementing a SearchView like this:
MenuItem search = menu.findItem(R.id.search);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(search);
But this gives me an inspection ...
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How to create a Menu instance programmatically? i.e. inflate a Menu outside onCreateOptionsMenu
I want to inflate a menu object outside onCreateOptionsMenu method (which means to create/show the menu when the user doesn't press the button), so I need to create a menu instance to pass it to the ...
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How to add line divider for menu item Android
My menu item become bigger so that I want group them and make a line divider to separate each group.
What should I do now ?
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
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Dynamic nested Material menu from json object in Angular 5
How to create dynamic nested menu from json object?
I started using Angular Material Design today for the first time and I'm trying to create nested menus using material design. The documentation is ...
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