Msg: 6166 *Conference*
12-17-95 06:32:20
From: COUGAR ALLEN
To : ALL
Subj: SMART KEY PROBLEM
SMTKEY.200 Question I'm not one to go yelling for help at the first difficulty, but I've tried everything I can think of and I still can't get Smart Key to work. I must be doing *something* wrong, but I can't imagine what. It's hard to even tell you what the symptoms are; it seems to malfunction in different ways every time I try it, but obviously if I can't tell you any more than "duh, it doesn't work" you're not going to be able to help me.... I just made one last try at it before posting this. This time I downloaded it again thinking that maybe my copy had gotten corrupted somehow. I installed it in a memory bank that had nothing else in it to make sure it wasn't a problem of incompatibility with other m/l programs. I found if I entered any text file other than Macdef.do I could use a macro once -- then I couldn't use that or any other macro until I either left and re- entered the file or erased what the macro had written -- then it would work again. Until then it would just chirp at me. It sounds like the same chirp that means there's no such macro. ( I've encountered this problem before, other times I've tried installing Smart Key, but not always so consistently. Sometimes it works in some text files and not in others. This time it worked in Macdef.do and not in any other text file I created.) Then I moved to another bank and tried to copy some files from that bank to the one I had Smart Key installed in -- every time I tried it the computer locked up and I had to reboot. So I went back to that bank and suffered a cold start as soon as I entered the bank (the files in other banks were still there, this time). When I've experimented with SmartKey in the past it was before I got extra memory banks, so I haven't had this exact problem before. I have had cold starts before but I don't remember what I was doing when it happened. I've had this problem before of only being able to use one macro in a file until I leave and re-enter it or delete what the macro wrote. I've tried using the sample Macdef.do unaltered and I still have the same problems. I've also tried writing my own Macdef.do with no m/l code in it, or with some m/l macros copied from the sample Macdef.do. I've run out of ideas -- I hope somebody can suggest something. -Cougar Allen