[Lazarus] Main menu hiding

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 0.9.25 compiled for Win-32 running on NT allows you to hide and unhide a 
> form's main menu depending on the visibility of the items on the menu, 
> i.e. if nothing's visible on the menu then it doesn't take any space on 
> the form.
> 
> When compiled for gtk running on Debian "Sarge" x86 the menu is hidden 
> as a thin strip which expands to its full height when items on it are 
> made visible but cannot be hidden again.

I was hoping that compiling Lazarus on Debian "Lenny", which I believe 
is oriented towards gtk v2, would fix this. However it appears to 
require the libgdk-pixbuf-dev package which still appears to be based on 
gtk 1 and appears to install libglib1.2-dev as well as possibly 
splurging symlinks into /usr/lib.

I tried building for Qt but Debian is still on v3.5 rather than v4, and 
fpgui also failed.

I've got nothing against gtk 1 as such, but am interested in seeing if 
this menu problem is tied to a particular widget set since it impacts on 
some stuff I'm trying to lay out.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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