Dialog and Contextual Action Bar

Question

I have a Dialog that has a ListView in it, and when you select an item a contextual actionBar needs to appear.

This is what I have so far This is inside my Dialog's ListView adapter's getView method. searchView is the view. bAct is my Activity that starts the dialog.

final LinearLayout searchView;

final LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
if (convertView == null) {
    searchView = new LinearLayout(getContext());
    vi.inflate(resource, searchView, true);
}
else
{
    searchView = (LinearLayout) convertView;
}

//Some code setting up some textview etc...
searchView.startActionMode(bAct.savedSearchMode);

And in my Activity I have

public ActionMode.Callback savedSearchMode = new ActionMode.Callback() {
    @Override
    public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) {
        MenuInflater inflater = new MenuInflater(ActivityViewTimetable.this);
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.saved_searches, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode actionMode, MenuItem menuItem) {
        switch (menuItem.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.run:
                progress.setTitle("Searching...");
                progress.setMessage("Fetching classes from the server");
                progress.show();
                AsyncForTimetable(typeID, classID, venueIds.values(), true);
                hideSavedSearchDialog();
                break;
            case R.id.delete:
                ToastMe("Delete search");
                break;
            default:
                ToastMe("Unknown: "+menuItem.getTitle());
                break;
        }
        actionMode.finish();
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode actionMode) {
        actionMode.finish();
    }
};

The whole thing works once. I can open the Dialog, get the ActionBar to change to my context items, and run a search, but once I try to do it again the actionbar doesn't change.

Can anyone see what I've got wrong?

If you need any other bits of code posting let me know

Answer 1

The problem was I needed to set up the contextual bar in onCreate