How do you remove Android soft menu?

[GrimSentry]

I have been having a blast with GLBasic and have answered dozens of my own questions thanks to this great community. Now I have my first question  . When I test my code on my HTC EVO 4G LTE running Android 4.0 it always has the soft menu, the black area with three dots. I want it gone. Does anyone know how to do this. Thanks in advance for your time

~Grim S.

[bigsofty]

I don't think you can, it can me reduced to 3 dots but that's it. This is not the fault of GLBasic as it's a restriction of the Android O.S.

[GrimSentry]

That's odd because I have half a dozen games that don't have it show up. I looked in all the documentation for the xml file and couldn't find anything there. Thanks though. 

Grim S.

[okee]

Do you have a screenshot ? I don't get anything like that, is it on the HTC only ?

[GrimSentry]

I will have to get a screen when I get home.. I have only tested on the HTC. A side note, I have no hardware menu button. I tried the full screen setting and it didn't work. (To be continued...)

~Grim S.

[okee]

poor old GLBasic gets blamed for everything

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/28/3197998/remove-3-dot-on-screen-menu-bar-on-htc-evo-4g-lte

[GrimSentry]

@okee The link you provided was informative unfortunately i don't want users to have to Rom/root there phone.

Fortunatly i found the solutions and it was an over site on my part when it came to the AndroidManifest.xml

The line:

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<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="8" />

Needs to be:

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<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="14" />

This will remove the 3 dot soft menu.
Thanks for all the help everyone

~Grim S.

[bigsofty]

Well done finding that one, I just notice that VLC Beta on android removes the bar too. Not so sure this would work below ICS though?

[Kitty Hello]

Ace find. Please check if it works on 2.2 or 2.3 still. I think it should.

[GrimSentry]

Sorry for the late response.  Been moving  When I get a chance I will charge my old Droid X and see if I can get it to work. I believe it is 2.3.

~Grim S.