ActionBar menu inflation error from SherlockFragment (ClassCastException)
actionbarsherlock, android, android-actionbar, classcastexception
Solution
You need to call `getActionView()` on the resulting item returned from `findItem()` to access that view. From there you can manipulate it.
You may also want to consider simply using a sub-menu with exclusively checkable items.
Problem
I'm trying to use the solution of this post, in order to have a Spinner in my ActionBar. I was first using the NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST of the ActionBar, but I don't want the spinner to be used to navigate trough views (I will have tabs for that). So I've created 2 xml : mode_spinner.xml ``` <Spinner xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> ``` options.xml ``` <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/menu_mode" android:actionLayout="@layout/mode_spinner" android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/> </menu> ``` and then, tried to inflate it from my fragment (SherlockFragment) ``` import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu; import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater; import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem; @Override public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) { inflater.inflate(R.menu.options, menu); Spinner spinner = (Spinner) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_mode); spinner.setAdapter(mSpinnerAdapter); super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater); } ``` at runtime, I got this error : java.lang.ClassCastException: com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuItemWrapper cannot be cast to android.widget.Spinner any idea ?