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.

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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);
}

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

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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.