thanks for the suggestions mark but my app is way to complicated to keep all of my logic in one activity which is why I have it separated into separate activities with the tabs. It was also an additional requirement of my client to have some of the activities I made separate like that so they can reuse them in other apps. All I really want to intercept is the menu button, I just through an example of Home not working because I put a Toast in onKeyDown to see what buttons would fire it off and search was the only one. Any idea on how I can keep the tabs as activities and also intercept the menu button?
On Jun 20, 6:06 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:02 AM, schwiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all I am trying to override the behavior of a TabActivity that > > has other Activities as children. I have made all of the children > > activities return false in onKeyDown so that the key will propagate > > through to the parent. However, this is not the case. The only key > > that is being recognized is the search key. Back, menu, and home are > > not being overridden. Please help!!!! > > Here is what I would do: > > Step #1: Get rid of the "other activities as children", replacing them > with Views as your tabs > > Step #2: Ignore HOME, since you cannot intercept that in any activity, > let alone one hosting tabs > > Step #3: In your one remaining activity, implement onKeyDown() > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 > Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
