[fpc-pascal] Lazarus IDE Question

[Micha Nelissen]

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.

> I then tried bypassing the IDE and duplicated the code on the form, 
> changing the menu items to item1, item2, item3, etc.  There must be 
> other necessary code hidden somewhere else because this attempt failed 
> to compile.

Did you create menuitems on the fly with Item1 := TMenuItem.Create and 
setting the relevant properties ? This should also work, but try first 
with the designer, I'd say.

> Is this one of the things that doesn't work in Lazarus?  Am I doing 
> something wrong?  Any suggstions?  Is there a Lazarus-specific forum to 
> discuss questions like this?

There is also a lazarus mailing list: lazarus at miraclec.com. Visit:

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=StaticPage&file=index&sURL=maill

for help regarding subscribing.

HTH,

Micha