> Is this intended behavior? If not, I'd still like to give the icons a
> disabled look. Looks like there are two options:

>    1. Use a StateListDrawable to set disabled versions of icon files
>    2. Look to see how Android makes icons disabled on previous versions.
>    This could be possibly be done using setAlpha() or setColorFilter(...)

> Any suggestions (esp. regarding where to look for #2 - MenuItem.java?
> That's just an interface) would be appreciated.

> In my app, I need to disable menu items depending on the state of a
> database. I do this with SherlockActivity.supportInvalidateOptionsMenu() and
> calling setEnabled(false) on the menu items I want to disable. While this
> does disable the text, the icons remain the same - they are not "grayed
> out" or anything.

> Is this intended behavior? If not, I'd still like to give the icons a
> disabled look. Looks like there are two options:

>    1. Use a StateListDrawable to set disabled versions of icon files
>    2. Look to see how Android makes icons disabled on previous versions.
>    This could be possibly be done using setAlpha() or setColorFilter(...)

> Any suggestions (esp. regarding where to look for #2 - MenuItem.java?
> That's just an interface) would be appreciated.

> I use a color filter, I've no idea how close the effect is to the "native
> filter", but looks great.

>     /**
>      * Mutates and applies a filter that converts the given drawable to a
> Gray image. This method
>      * may be used to simulate the color of disable icons in Honeycomb's
> ActionBar.
>      *
>      * @return a mutated version of the given drawable with a color filter
> applied.
>      */
>     public static Drawable convertDrawableToGrayScale(Drawable drawable) {
>         if (drawable == null) {
>             return null;
>         }

>         Drawable res = drawable.mutate();
>         res.setColorFilter(Color.GRAY, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
>         return res;
>     }

> Segunda-feira, 4 de Junho de 2012 7:48:03 UTC+1, Oleg Vaskevich escreveu:

>> In my app, I need to disable menu items depending on the state of a
>> database. I do this with SherlockActivity.supportInvalidateOptionsMenu() and
>> calling setEnabled(false) on the menu items I want to disable. While
>> this does disable the text, the icons remain the same - they are not
>> "grayed out" or anything.

>> Is this intended behavior? If not, I'd still like to give the icons a
>> disabled look. Looks like there are two options:

>>    1. Use a StateListDrawable to set disabled versions of icon files
>>    2. Look to see how Android makes icons disabled on previous versions.
>>    This could be possibly be done using setAlpha() or setColorFilter(...)

>> Any suggestions (esp. regarding where to look for #2 - MenuItem.java?
>> That's just an interface) would be appreciated.