ActionBarSherlock hardkey menu panel text color

Question

I have a small question about theming my app that uses ActionBarSherlock. Everything works fine except on Samsung phones with TouchWizz. The overflow menu items appear by pressing the hardware menu key.

I know how to change the panel background. My default theme extends Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar, so the default menu item text color in the hardware panel will be black, I wan't to change this.

Any ideas on how to do this besides changing the parent of my default theme?

<style name="Theme.MyApp" parent="@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:panelBackground">@drawable/menu_hardkey_panel</item>
</style>

Answer 1

Here are the correct attrs to tune hardware menu style. You should look at panelColorForeground ;-)

<item name="android:panelColorBackground">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:panelColorForeground">@color/primary_text_holo_dark</item>
<item name="android:panelFullBackground">@drawable/menu_background_fill_parent_width_holo_dark</item>
<item name="android:panelTextAppearance">@style/Holo.TextAppearance</item>

Tested on HoloEverywhere lib and 2.3 emulator. See attrs doc for details.