Free42 Update 2.0.22a

[Thomas Okken]

I found a way to force the text in the overflow menu to black. Hopefully that will make the menu readable again on *all* devices. It is unfortunate that the overflow menu's color scheme no longer matches the color scheme on the main menu, but apparently the only way to fix that is to take control of the entire UI's color scheme. Android no longer provides sensible defaults and this is The New Way, apparently!

(01-13-2019 02:23 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  I can access the overflow menu by touching on the top border of the 42 image, but no longer by a drag-up from below the bottom. Has this recently changed, or perhaps I'm mistaking this for either another app or maybe much older Free42. I'm using skins Type_H.layout and Type_V.layout if that matters.

That appears to be another side effect of changing the target: the old menu triggers, like the one you described, or the "three dots" trigger in the bottom right corner, were all "compatibility behavior" enabled by targeting API level 8, and gone now that I'm targeting API level 26. I don't think I can fix that; it's Google Policy that apps "shouldn't use option menus." So there. The top-of-skin trigger, at least, should continue to work on *all* Android devices, since this is coded in Free42 itself, it's not OS functionality that can just vanish at Google's whim.

I'm releasing 2.0.22b with the fixes for the overflow menu item text, and the flag 44 behavior on Shift-EXIT.