Android Question Showing Overflow Menu with a Hardware Home Button

I need to show the items on an overflow menu but have discovered (as many before me also have) that when the tablet has a hardware-based home button, then the 3-dot overflow menu button is not displayed and access to the items in it is cut off.

I found this helpful link to determining the presence of a hardware home button:

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/detect-hardware-button-exists-or-not.44181/#content

But it doesn't address how then to programatically make the overflow menu appear.

How can I do that?

I found this thread on StackOverflow, but don't know how to apply it to b4a:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...nu-item-in-action-bar-without-using-a-hack-me

Any assistance would be appreciated!