Hi Joe Thanks very much as usual you fix worked and on re-looking in the Help Files saw the relevant article. Can't believe I missed that the first time !!
Yes the failure was almost certainly caused by a non conventional shut down which happened a few days ago. Many thanks as always Dave. Joseph Glockner wrote: > David, > > Normally, when this happens -- you go thru the procedure > that can be found in the help files -- here is a full quote > of those words: > > Toolbars Vanished > > In the past, we have had some reports that all of sudden, when DXbase > was started, the toolbars with the bitmap buttons have disappeared. A > check of the VIEW/Toolbars menu indicates that they are turned on but > yet they are not on the screen. > > Among the dozens of clean up activities that occur when you exit > DXbase, one event is that all screen coordinates and other information > about your various toolbars is saved to the DXbase INI file located in > your Windows directory. We have never been able to determine the > cause for this condition. We suspect that perhaps DXbase was not > closed properly, or there was a write error to the hard drive when the > settings were being written to your INI file, but with only a few > reports we have been unable to find any cause/effect. > > Follow this process for correcting this problem: > > Close DXbase. > Using Wordpad, open your DXbase INI file located in your Windows > directory. > > Inside the INI file, you will find a large number (approximately 15 > of them) of sections which have the title [Dt???] followed by a number > of entries within each of these sections. > > Delete every section which begins with [Dt??.] AND, all entries > within each of these sections. > > Save your changes to text format. > > Now when you start DXbase, your toolbars will be displayed in the > default locations. Reposition them etc. to meet your needs. > > Copyright ?1999 - 2006 Scientific Solutions, Inc. > > > 73 Joe wa6axe > > > > David Gynn wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> Wonder if anyone has experienced the following and therefore knows >> how to fix. >> >> Ran up Dxbase 2007 this morning and notice that the Rotor Tool Bar >> had gone from the main Tool Bar area. >> Checked Tools/Customise/Toolbars and no Rotor option now shown. >> However commands for Rotor show under Tools.Customise/Commands. >> >> Rotor functions correctly when selecting either SPath or LPath from >> Summary window. >> >> Rotor details show correctly in Tools/Rotor 1 and also in the >> Rotor.ini file. >> >> Grateful for any ideas. >> >> 73's >> >> Dave G3SBP >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> >> >
