Override an Override?

I have an Activity in a Library that has a menu in it. The menu has all the standard attributes as well as the @Override on onCreateOptionsMenu and onOptionsItemSelected.

In my actual project which imports above library I have another activity that extends teh above activity. For this specific implementation of this program I want to have a different menu on this activity so inside this activities code base add add onCreateOptionsMenu and onOptionsItemSelected with the proper @Override, but i get the menu from the Library, not the override in the library.

What could I be doing wrong?

Base Class:

public class ListI开发者_Python百科tems extends ListActivity {
    public static final int LOGOUT  = 0;
    public static final int HISTORY  = 1;
    public static final int REFRESH  = 2;


@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){
    menu.add(0, LOGOUT ,0,"Log Out");
    menu.add(0,HISTORY,0,"Order History");
    menu.add(0,REFRESH,0,"SMS");
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected (MenuItem item){
    TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(com.imobileminutes.library.R.id.text);
    switch (item.getItemId()){
       case LOGOUT:
            Intent logOut = new Intent(ListItems.this,MainScreen.class);
            startActivity(logOut);
            finish();
            return true;
        case HISTORY:
            Intent orderHistory = new Intent(this,OrderItems.class);
            startActivity(orderHistory);
            return true;
        case REFRESH:
            Intent orderHistory = new Intent(this,OrderItems.class);
            startActivity(orderHistory);
            return true;
}
    return false;
}
}

Override Class

public class ListItems extends com.imobileminutes.library.ListItems {
    static final int SMS = 2;


@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){
    Log.d("onCreateOptionsMenu", "My onCreateOptionsMenu ran");
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "HEllo Menu Created", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected (MenuItem item){
    Log.d("onCreateOptionsMenu", "My onOptionsItemSelected ran");
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "HElloonOptionsItemSelected", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

   super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    return false;
}

}

CONCLUSION It ended up being that my library was calling ListItems.this and CreateAccount.this which was referencing the activities in the library not in the extended classes.

I added an intent for every extended activity type and nwo call that, thus bringing up the extended activity rather than the base activity.

Thanks for the help guys.

Either you didn't copy and paste the code correctly, or part of the problem is in your base class, which provides the same definition for onCreateOptionsMenu as your derived class:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){
    menu.add(0, LOGOUT ,0,"Log Out");
    menu.add(0,HISTORY,0,"Order History");
    menu.add(0,REFRESH,0,"SMS");
    return true;
}

That last line can't be right -- I'm pretty sure the last line of the base class implementation should be: menu.add(0,REFRESH,0,"REFRESH");.

But that last line of onCreateOptionsMenu also needs to be changed in the derived class:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){
    menu.add(0, LOGOUT ,0,"Log Out");
    menu.add(0, HISTORY,0,"Order History");
    menu.add(0, SMS,0,"SMS"); // Use the correct constant (SMS instead of REFRESH)
    return true;
}

EDIT: Also, you can simplify the code a bit, by re-using the superclass implementation for those choices where you're currently just copying the superclass code (LOGOUT and HISTORY):

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected (MenuItem item){
    TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(com.imobileminutes.library.R.id.text);
    // Left this as a 'switch'; you might want to use an 'if' instead.
    switch (item.getItemId()){
    case SMS:
        AppClass.sendSMS("8135551212", "Hello Jason");
        return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

Use the fully qualified name on the import my suspicion is you are referencing the wrong class.

Turns out it was the way I was calling the Activitys. I was calling the Activity directly in the Library rather than calling the overridden one. Since the overriden ones will be dynamic depending on the Apps naming, I ended up using Intents that will search for the callers packagename and append the specific intent onto it.

As soon as I set all that up, my SMS menu item showed.