Theme_HoloEverywhereLight_Sherlock showing dark background

Question

I'm using Christophe Versiuex's HoloEverywhere library in concert with ActionBarSherlock to display an ICS looking app on Gingerbread phones. The Theme.HoloEverywhereDark.Sherlock theme works great. But when I try to change the theme to Theme.HoloEverywhereLight.Sherlock, all the text changes to dark text, but the Activity backgrounds stay dark.

All I'm doing is:

  setTheme(R.style.Theme_HoloEverywhereLight_Sherlock);
  setContentView(R.layout.mylayout);

in the Activity.onCreate() method.

In looking at the code, it defines:

<style name="Theme.HoloEverywhereLight.Sherlock" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/background_holo_light</item>
    .
    .
    .

so it looks like it should work.

Has anyone else used the Light theme and gotten a light background?

Thanx.

Answer 1

I figured this out. I was doing:

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setTheme(R.style.Theme_HoloEverywhereLight_Sherlock);
setContentView(R.layout.mylayout);

when I should have been doing:

setTheme(R.style.Theme_HoloEverywhereLight_Sherlock);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.mylayout);

setTheme() needed to be called before super.onCreate(). Now the light theme works like a charm.