Run Time Sub Menu Gap

[David Duffy 0]

Hi all,
In my Delphi XE application I have a main menu and some of the menu items have a sub menu.

 

The sub menus that are created at design time are aligned to the parent menu item correctly, but the ones I create in code always have a gap between the menu item and the sub menu.

 

Is there some other property of the sub menu items I need to set apart from owner and parent to get them to display correctly?
 

[corneliusdavid 220]

It would help if you showed the code that you tried.

 

You could also create one sub-menu at design-time, then look at the text view of the .dfm to see all the properties it sets to give you a clue.

[David Duffy 0]

Here's the code:

procedure TfmMain.UpdateHelpMenu;
var
  MI: TMenuItem;
  x: Integer;
begin
  while mnShortcutList.Count > 0 do
    mnShortcutList.Delete(0);
  for x := 0 to Prefs.Shortcuts.Count-1 do
  begin
    MI := TMenuItem.Create(mnShortcutList);
    MI.Caption := Prefs.Shortcuts[x].HelpCaption;
    MI.ShortCut := Prefs.Shortcuts[x].Shortcut;
    mnShortcutList.Add(MI);
  end;
end;

 

[Vincent Parrett 765]

Looks like this was solved on the adug forums 😃

[David Duffy 0]

It was and by a very smart guy! 😄

[corneliusdavid 220]

Ah! TAdvMainMenu! That explains it. I was thinking that didn't look like the regular TMainMenu. My attempt to replicate it also failed.

[David Duffy 0]

Yes, sorry I didn't realise at the time of posting that it was specific to the TMS version.