toggle() when home button click on slidingmenu with actionbarsherlock

Question

Here is my MainActivity

public class MainActivity extends SherlockActivity implements ActionBar.OnNavigationListener {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    setTheme(R.style.Theme_Sherlock_Light_DarkActionBar); //Used for theme switching in samples
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    //Hide title bar
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

    //Enable home button
    getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

    //Home as up display
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

    //Sliding menu
    SlidingMenu menu = new SlidingMenu(getBaseContext());
    menu.setMode(SlidingMenu.LEFT);
    menu.setTouchModeAbove(SlidingMenu.TOUCHMODE_FULLSCREEN);
    menu.setShadowWidthRes(R.dimen.shadow_width);
    menu.setShadowDrawable(R.drawable.shadow);
    menu.setBehindOffsetRes(R.dimen.slidingmenu_offset);
    menu.setFadeDegree(0.35f);
    menu.attachToActivity(this, SlidingMenu.SLIDING_CONTENT);
    menu.setMenu(R.layout.slide_menu);
}

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {       
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            //should be something in here that makes it slide to the left
            return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    //Used to put dark icons on light action bar
    //boolean isLight = SampleList.THEME == R.style.Theme_Sherlock_Light;

    menu.add("New")
        .setIcon(R.drawable.contentnew)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM);

    menu.add("Search")
        .setIcon(R.drawable.actionsearch)
        .setActionView(R.layout.collapsible_edittext)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);

    getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}
}

I want to set when home button is clicked, it slides to the left. Thing is, i can't extend SlidingFragmentActivity like examples in jfeinstein10's project, because i already extended SherlockActivity . How can i achieve this?

Answer 1

You need to extend from SlidingFragmentActivity, If you don´t do it you can´t even call toggle or set the menu fragment.If you extended from SFA it would be something like this:

case android.R.id.home:
    toggle();
    return true;

Answer 2

You need to make a change in the SlidingMenu code. Make SlidingFragmentActivity extend SherlockFragmentActivity . Then add ActionBarSherlock as library project to SlidingMenu. Now your project only has to add SlidingMenu as library project, because that references ActionBarSherlock.

Quoted from https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu#setup-with-actionbarsherlock :

Setup with ActionBarSherlock

• Setup as above.
• Checkout a clean copy of ActionBarSherlock and import into your Eclipse workspace.
• Add ActionBarSherlock as a dependency to SlidingMenu
• Go into the SlidingActivities that you plan on using make them extend Sherlock___Activity instead of ___Activity .