Blackberry menu from BlackBerry app

Question

I have an application that inserts ApplicationMenuItem into Blackberry's own contacts menu. I can make it work fine. Now my question is: how can I change or remove this ApplicationMenuItem based on the contact that I highlighted? Should I use GlobalEventListener? I assume that overriding makeMenu can only be done for menus on my own screens, and not on the native contacts screen?

Answer 1

We wanted to do something similar and told RIM (during the last BB Dev Con) that this is currently not possible, you cannot display menu items based on the selected item in the native application. Excuse me..:)

Update at the New England Blackberry Developers' Meeting last Tuesday, Mike Kirkup noted that they are actively working on add this functionality, but there is still no assessment of when it will be ready. In addition, I assume that it will be added to future versions and that backward compatibility will need to be considered ...