[Lazarus] melp /w TMainMenu

[Chris Jennings]

Thanks Andrew

Even though I had the solution, I realy appreciate the work you did. - 
My mistake was to keep placing the cursor back to the top level item 
(File) as I tried to make changes.

cj

Andrew Haines wrote:
> 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
>
>
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