[Lazarus] Displaying system menu

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Nov 25 09:39:08 CET 2010


michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Is there an easy and portable way of telling a form to display its 
>> system menu, for example in rsponse to a right-click? I'm trying to do 
>> something without border etc. (to suppress all sizeability and the 
>> title bar) but still want an easy way of moving it.
>>
>> Is there an easy and portable way of extending the system menu with 
>> e.g. an entry to pop up an "about" box?
> 
> No. Under X-Windows, you have no control whatsoever over the system menu.
> It is entirely under control of the window manager.

Thanks Michael, noted. Is it possible to lock down a form's dimensions 
even if the title bar is displayed? So far with GTK2 I've had little 
success.

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

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