ActionbarSherlock overflow menu styling issue

Question

I am following the examples on the ActionbarSherlock website

<style name="Theme.Styled" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="background">@drawable/bg_striped</item>
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/bg_striped</item>

    <item name="backgroundSplit">@drawable/bg_striped_split</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundSplit">@drawable/bg_striped_split</item>
</style>

however with this setup I am not able to change the style for the overflow menu. the properties "android:popupMenuStyle" and "android:dropDownListViewStyle" is completely ignored.

If i change the themes parent to "Theme.Sherlock.Light" it works. Is this intentional? If not how would you style the overflow menu dropdown and at the same time keep the themes parent "Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar" as per the example on the Sherlock website.

thanks

Answer 1

You should check out this actionbar style generator. It works great and should help resolve your issue: http://jgilfelt.github.com/android-actionbarstylegenerator/