Thank you Micha for your help so far. Your suggestion worked, at least
in getting the menu structure created at design time. However it locks
up at run time.
I created a bare-bones do-nothing test menu and double clicked each menu
option to create an empty procedure in response to a mouse click. If I
have no submenus, everything seems to work. But if I add submenus, the
menu system locks up.
One of my questions is, do I need to create click-handling procedures
for the menu items whose only function is to open a submenu? The system
locks up whether I create these procedures or not, but I can't imagine
what I would put in such a procedure if it were required. Is there some
other property I need to set to get the menu system to work? Is there a
tutorial or documentation (short of reading the source code) that leads
me through this learning process? (I feel awkward having to rely on the
mailing list for questions I would normally be able to answer for myself
reading a book or online document. I have been using Mastering Delphi
6, by the way, on the assumption that the Lazarus IDE is roughly
equivalent.)
--David Chandler
Micha Nelissen wrote:
David Chandler wrote:
I am trying to create a menu bar using Lazarus. I drop the TMainMenu
icon onto the form. Then I modify the Items in the Object Inspector
and can get the first menu item, but that is all. I can't enter more
menu headings or submenu items. I checked a Delphi reference and saw
a similar mechanism, but it provides little dashed boxes to lay out
the whole menu structure. The corresponding structure in Lazarus
seems inert.
The trick is to right-click, then you get a menu, choose "insert item
after" or something alike.
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