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as a follow up, maybe another question i can/should ask is,..in a DockDrop or DockOver event you have &quot;Source&quot; as part of your parameter list how do i grab the Source's MainMenu item (presumming that i know there will be one ahead of time) and assing it to the main menu item of the form i'm docking to?
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as a follow up, maybe another question i can/should ask is,..in a DockDrop or DockOver event you have "Source" as part of your parameter list how do i grab the Source's MainMenu item (presumming that i know there will be one ahead of time) and assing it to the main menu item of the form i'm docking to?

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a menu has a procedure called merge<br />
to merge the menu of the docked form to the main window:<br />
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MainForm.Menu.Merge(Docked<wbr />Form.Menu)<wbr />;<br />
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for the merge to work correctly you need to set the GroupIndex property of each main menu item<br />
Like in the MainMenu set File GroupIndex to 1, Help to 100<br />
For a dockedform you could set GroupIndex to 90<br />
They get ordered by this groupindex in the combined menu
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a menu has a procedure called merge
to merge the menu of the docked form to the main window:

MainForm.Menu.Merge(DockedForm.Menu);

for the merge to work correctly you need to set the GroupIndex property of each main menu item
Like in the MainMenu set File GroupIndex to 1, Help to 100
For a dockedform you could set GroupIndex to 90
They get ordered by this groupindex in the combined menu

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i've created a customized unit (a TForm Class) and have created a TMainMenu component in code. I need to make sure that when forms of this class are created that the TMainMenu item gets assigned and shows on the form,..how do i do this? Ultimately what i'm trying to do is &quot;transfer&quot; an existing main menu from a form that gets docked inside of another form, so that the receiving form gets the menu, since i lose the original main menu when the dock is complete.
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i've created a customized unit (a TForm Class) and have created a TMainMenu component in code. I need to make sure that when forms of this class are created that the TMainMenu item gets assigned and shows on the form,..how do i do this? Ultimately what i'm trying to do is "transfer" an existing main menu from a form that gets docked inside of another form, so that the receiving form gets the menu, since i lose the original main menu when the dock is complete.

attach a main menu to a unit

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