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 -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
