onCreateOptionsMenu(); not picking up required xml file

[Kody Wright]

Hello all,

I am working my way through the book "Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 hours", and am currently on hour 8. I've run across a slight problem that I can't seem to figure out.

I am trying to use the onCreateOptionsMenu method to display an options menu in a particular activity. I am trying to load the gameoptions.xml file, located in the "/res/menu" folder. For whatever reason, it is not recognizing that there is a file there by that name and subsequently not seeing the two items I have stored in it. I'll post the code below so you can see exactly what I'm doing.

I have restarted eclipse and tried renaming the files in an effort to fix the problem, but it still shows as an error. Could this be an eclipse problem rather than a code problem?

 @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
    {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

// This is where the error starts, even though it is pointing directly to the xml file located in '/res/menu/gameoptions.xml'
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.gameoptions, menu);  
 
        menu.findItem(R.id.help_menu_item).setIntent(
            new Intent(this, QuizHelpActivity.class));

        menu.findItem(R.id.settings_menu_item).setIntent(
            new Intent(this, QuizSettingsActivity.class));

        return true;
    }

...and here is the xml file itself, gameoptions.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:id="@+id/settings_menu_item" android:title="@string/menu_item_settings" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_preferences"/> <item android:id="@+id/help_menu_item" android:title="@string/menu_item_help" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_help"/> </menu>

Thank you for your time!