[lazarus] Attach menu to window

[Micha Nelissen]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:32:03 +0200
> Micha Nelissen <M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Currently the menu is immediately attached to a window upon creation. 
>>However, when creating all the entries this causes an huge delay, 
>>because the window gets redrawn for every menu item change and add.
>>
>>Therefore I suggest introducing an LM_ATTACHMENUTOWINDOW or something 
>>alike. Then all menu items are created first and when all is done a 
>>message sent attaching the menu causing a redraw only once. The message 
>>could be sent from TCustomForm.CreateWnd after FMenu.HandleNeeded for 
>>example.
>>
>>Please, someone from the GTK team respond for comments :).
> 
> 
> The gtk-interface does not care, if you first create the child handles and
> then attach the menu item, or if you attach and then create the child
> handles.
> 
> I think, it would be better if the childs are created first and then the
> menu item is attached. This was the case some months ago, but for some
> strange win32 reasons it was necessary to switch it.
> 
> Can we switch back.

Those 'strange' win32 reasons were strange to me then, and still are :(. 
Too bad the writer doesn't respond or has left.

But: there 2 attach'types':
1) attach menuitem to another menuitem (submenus)
2) attach menuitem (mainmenu) to window

In the discussion from 1 july I was talking about the first. Now I am 
talking about the second one :).

But since menu attachment to window is now done implicitly, and I 
suggest to do it explicitly, no harm should result in this change. (If 
the gtk now does it implicitly, and I send the message explicitly, but 
it doesn't respond, there's no problem because it has already done it 
implicitly).

Is my post clearly enough written?

Micha.