Sorry, no, the options menu is only created when needed.  Your
create/prepare callback can however stash away the menu interface it
receives for your code to use later.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mathieu Plourde <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Hm, I suppose I wasn't clear enough.
>
> I meant withouth using those events methods (onCreateOptionsMenu,
> onPrepareOptionsMenu, etc).
>
> Is there a way to get an instance of the options menu from an activity
> instance? Something like: activity.getOptionsMenu()
>
> On Jul 3, 3:05 pm, Peli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In onPrepareOptionsMenu(), you can use menu.findItem(..).
> >
> > Peliwww.openintents.org
> >
> > On 3 Jul., 20:21, Mathieu Plourde <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to get the reference to the option menu, from outside
> > > of onCreateOptionsMenu?
> >
> > > I tried findViewById (for Menu and MenuItem), but it doesn't work.
> >
>


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