OW Text Editor Difficulty

[bruce]

Suddenly, OW Text Editor no longer has the File, Edit, etc buttons
which I use, for example: File SaveAs. This is OW1.9 on a WinXp.

I am unable to figure out why and correct it. Any ideas? Or should I
ask this some where else?

[Ron]

Bruce,

Are you unable to see particular items in the drop-down list or are the File
and Edit tabs actually gone? I know XP will start hiding menu items that
are not being used so often, and I was thinking there must be a way to get
them to display again...

Regards, Ron

[Kevin G. Rhoads]

>Or should I
>ask this some where else?

Rather, supply more detail.

You installed OW1.9 (fresh?, over an older? )
Presumably, the text editor worked.

Then you did something? or something auto-updated?
and after this (totally unspecified) event, it stopped working.

Since then you did/did not try reinstalling?
Tried something/anything else?

Without some idea what happened prior to "Suddenly, ..."
it is rather difficult to offer anything useful as a
response, with the lone exception of "try reinstalling".

The more relevant information you can provide, the more
likely someone can provide a useful response.

[Ron]

To clarify this post:

Microsoft Office 2003 will autohide unused menu items. To get the menu
items to display, double click the tab (File, Edit, etc.) or click on
the "down arrows" icon.

Best regards,
Ron

[bruce]

The whole menu ( File, Edit, Options, Window, Help ) is missing. The
buttons just below are still there.

I first noticed it Monday when I went to use an existing file as a
template for a new one (which is the proceedure I nearly always use.)

Right-clicking only worked on the title bar (as well as the body).
Also shut down the pc. I know there is a file someplace where the
editor keeps its options. Whether that file might have a setting to
affect this, I don't know. (There is another setting that I want to
change: Case insensitivity in searches. I set it and Save
configuration but it is still sensitive when I Open another file.)

After I wrote the above, I double-checked on another pc. It still has
the File menu. Perhaps I could copy a file or folder(s). Looks like
binnt, binw and eddat are the ones to try.

[bruce]

> ...  Perhaps I could copy a file or folder(s).  Looks like

> binnt, binw and eddat are the ones to try.

That did it! I have the File menu back.

[E. S. Fabian]

bruce:

|| ... Perhaps I could copy a file or folder(s). Looks like
|| binnt, binw and eddat are the ones to try.
| That did it! I have the File menu back.

Glad to read your system is now fully functional. For our edification, which
file was missing or corrupted?
--
Steve

[Johann Klammer]

E. S. Fabian wrote:
> Glad to read your system is now fully functional. For our edification, which
> file was missing or corrupted?

perhaps he lost eddat/weditor.ini.
That seems to define the buttons.

[Wilton Helm]

We encounter this one about once a year. There is either a bug in the
program, or more likely an undocumented feature (some control code) that
turns off those lines in the window. Replacing weditor.ini solves it (but
of course looses all customization). The file is normally found in the
Documents and Settings path on Windows. I've had it happen to me enough
times that I keep a copy, customized to my liking so I can easily fix it.
Assuming it is some control character (typed) that does this, there is
probably another one that restores it but I've never encountered that. I
suppose if I wanted to, I could look at the source code and find out what is
going on

That's the basic story. Someone posts this one about once or twice a year.
Once they've been there, they know what to do, but it bites newcomers.

Wilton