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forster@sispa.chem.tu-berlin.de (Peter Forster) writes:

>I have started looking at all the features that EPM has to offer, so I got
>the whole EPM package from the June '93 Hobbes CD and prepared my own file
>MYCNF.E as described in the EPM Users Manual. However, one of the features
>described therein does not seem to work: when setting MENU_LIMIT = 5 
>(anything != 0), the action bar should contain a pulldown with the files
>that are in the editor ring. So I set up the following MYCNF.E:

>const
>    MENU_LIMIT = 5
>    EXTRA_EX = 1

>(I had more in there, but the error is reproducible with just these 3 lines)
>and compiled with 'etpm epm'. When I start epm, everything looks normal at
>first, but when I try to set 'Ring Enabled' in the Options->Preferences menu,
>the message line displays 'Unknown command "ring_toggle"', and there is no
>entry 'Add file to ring' in the File pulldown. However, with F8 I can get the
>Add File dialog and select a file. But as soon as I have loaded a file into 
>the ring (the first file is the default .Untitled, this is the second file),
>the message line displays 'Error Showing Menu' and the action bar is 
>inaccessible to the mouse -- simply dead. I cannot activate any of the 
>pulldowns and only get to the File pulldown via the ALT key.


Just a thought, did you also recompile extra.e, that  is...

etpm extra


You need to compile both epm.e and extra.e when you specify extra_ex=1
in mycnf.e


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