[fpc-pascal] Lazarus IDE Question

[David Chandler]

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.