[Lazarus] melp /w TMainMenu

[Andrew Haines]

Chris Jennings wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am brand new to Lazarus but have experience with Delphi in the distant
> past. I am just trying to acertain if Lazarus will meet my needs and am
> playing with some examples. I have run into a snag that is killing me.
> 
> I place a TManMenu component on an empty form for a new application
> project. I click on it to bring up the Menu Editor. I change the caption
> to "File". I create a sub menu item and change the caption to "Open". I
> click on File and go to repeat the process. Nothing happens.
> 
> I am able to add a second top levl item (eg. "Help") and again can only
> add 1 sunmenu item to it. I am able to add submenu items to existing
> submenu items and everything works as expected
> 
> If I open one of the example files I can see that the author has
> developed a full menu, yet I can not add to it.
> I can use the template option to place a full File dialog, but again can
> not add to it.
> 
> Unfortunatley the documentation for Lazarus needss some work.
> 
> Someone please help. Lazarus looks like a fantastic product that will
> meet my needs of a single development environment for a new Open Source
> project that must be available to Linux/Mac/Win users.
> 

I made a short video of how to do what you're asking. I see that you
already have your answer but maybe someone else will find it interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0qn94zczaY

Regards,

Andrew