Adding an item to the main menu or the tools menu

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You need to add an item into Delphi's IDE for your expert?

Here is how I did it for TMultiLang..
if you do not want to use the tools menu, but instead create a new main menu entry, you need to replace the

menMain.FindMenuItem ()

with

menMain.InsertItem(8, '&Test', 'TestMainMenuItem', '', 0, 0, 0, [mfVisible, mfEnabled], nil);

	// taken from TMultiLang source code constructor TMultiLangExpert.Create; var menMain : TIMainMenuIntf; menToolsGallery : TIMenuItemIntf; menToolsMenu : TIMenuItemIntf; begin { Create } Inherited Create; menMain := ToolServices.GetMainMenu; // get the IDE's main menu if Assigned (menMain) then try // get the

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