[Lazarus] Frames and menus

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:

>>>> [...]
>>>> What I'm finding is that when I tell the IDE to drop a frame onto the 
>>>> form, it displays a "Select Frame" dialog with no content.
>>> How did you create the frame?
>> File -> New... -> Module-Frame
> 
> Fixed in svn. Please test.

I think that's improved it: once the frame has "realised" it's to appear 
in the list, it stays available.

>> [...]
>> Any thoughts about the menu aspect- am I trying to do something impossible?
> 
> I never tried nesting a main menu. Many platforms treat main menus
> special, so probably it is not portable.
> Using a toolbar or a panel with some popup menus should work on all

I suspected that might be the case, I'll probably fudge something with 
panels/buttons.

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