Android -- Problems with Checkable menu items

I have read the instructions at the android developers page's in order to get the Checkable menu items:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html

this is my xmlmenu:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <group android:checkableBehavior="all">
        <item android:id="@+id/regu"
              android:title="@string/Regulatory" />
        <item android:id="@+id/warn"
              android:title="@string/Warning" />
        <item android:id="@+id/temp"
              android:title="@string/Temporary" />
        <item android:id="@+id/bicy"
              android:title="@string/Bicycle" />
    </group>
</menu>

And here is my code:

 @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
      switch (item.getItemId()) {
      case R.id.regu:
          if (item.isChecked())
          {
              item.setChecked(false);
              currAvailableOptions++;
          }
          else if(0 != currAvailableOptions)
          {
                  item.setChecked(true);开发者_StackOverflow社区
                  currAvailableOptions--;
          }
          return true;
      case R.id.warn:
          if (item.isChecked())
          {
              item.setChecked(false);
              currAvailableOptions++;
          }
          else if(0 != currAvailableOptions)
          {
                  item.setChecked(true);
                  currAvailableOptions--;
          }
        return true;
      case R.id.temp:
          if (item.isChecked())
          {
              item.setChecked(false);
              currAvailableOptions++;
          }
          else if(0 != currAvailableOptions)
          {
                  item.setChecked(true);
                  currAvailableOptions--;
          }
          return true;
      default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
      }
    }

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.app_menu, menu);
        return true;
    }

The problem is when I clicked one item, the menu item disappeared. It wouldn't have to stay visible in order to check other menu items?

Any idea?

Greetings

Checkable items appear only in submenus or context menus.

And with submenu they (Google) means:

Submenu A floating list of menu items that appears when the user touches a menu item that contains a nested menu.

Since your menu items are not submenu items, it will not work

I know this is not a direct answer to your question but please consider the following code instead of your switch, it might help you find the problem.

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
  switch (item.getItemId()) {
  case R.id.regu:
  case R.id.warn:
  case R.id.temp:
      if (item.isChecked())
           currAvailableOptions++;
      else if(currAvailableOptions != 0)
           currAvailableOptions--;
      item.setChecked(!item.isChecked());
      return true;
  default:
      return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
  }
}

What is currAvailableOptions? I looked at the article you linked to and there wasn't anything about that in there. It would seem that all you need to do is check:

   if (item.isChecked())
      item.setChecked(false);
   else
      item.setChecked(true);

or at least that's what the tutorial says. Perhaps you should give it another read? Hope this helps.

You should probably add break; statements after each case:

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.item1:
        item.setChecked(!item.isChecked());
        break;
    case R.id.item2:
        item.setChecked(!item.isChecked());
        break;
    default:
        break;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}