Running 1.1 r37373 GTK2 2.6.0. What I'm trying to do is put a main menu in a frame, which then only displays over part of the width of the containing form so that I can use the remainder for comboboxes.

What I'm finding is that when I tell the IDE to drop a frame onto the form, it displays a "Select Frame" dialog with no content. But if I first put a panel on the form "Select Frame" shows me the name of the frame I've prepared. Except when the reverse happens, i.e. I can't drop onto a panel but can drop onto the underlying form... it might depend on whether the sum of the number of components on the main form + that on the frame is odd or even.

In cases where I can get the drop to work, I don't see the main menu (can this be made to work?) but a popup on the frame works.

[...] What I'm finding is that when I tell the IDE to drop a frame onto the form, it displays a "Select Frame" dialog with no content.

How did you create the frame?

Please try:
open the frame and close it.
Then focus the form and click "Select frame".

Do you see the frame in the list?

But if I first put a panel on the form "Select Frame" shows me the name of the frame I've prepared.

Are you sure? The list of shown frames depends on the active form, not on the content.

[...]

Mattias

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Running 1.1 r37373 GTK2 2.6.0. What I'm trying to do is put a main menu

Gtk2 2.6.0 ?!? ;) I hope it's typo.

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File -> New... -> Module-Frame

Yes, and I think I continue seeing it if the frame is subsequently reopened.

I'm sure. However the issue appears to be that the frame has to have been closed (rather than just saved) before it's reliably usable. If it's not been closed then there's some sort of context/content-sensitive problem.

Any thoughts about the menu aspect- am I trying to do something impossible?

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Running 1.1 r37373 GTK2 2.6.0.

To clarify before anybody else gets confused: 2.6.0 is the compiler version.

Fixed in svn. Please test.

ok

[...] Any thoughts about the menu aspect- am I trying to do something impossible?

I never tried nesting a main menu. Many platforms treat main menus special, so probably it is not portable.
Using a toolbar or a panel with some popup menus should work on all platforms.

Mattias

I think that's improved it: once the frame has "realised" it's to appear in the list, it stays available.

I suspected that might be the case, I'll probably fudge something with panels/buttons.