I had the exact same problem last night.  I discovered that even though I
had told MPLAB to create the project in Simulator mode, it had actually
created it in Editor Only mode.

Go to Options->Development Mode and select MPLAB-SIM Simulator.  MPLAB will
close your current project, but when you reopen it, all the debug stuff
will work.


CIAO - Martin R. Green
elimar@bigfoot.com

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From:   Ravindra Divekar[SMTP:ravindra@HAL.COM]
Sent:   Thursday, July 31, 1997 9:17 PM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        debug using MPLAB ?

Hi friends!

I tried using MPLAB to develop my software.
I managed to Create a new project,
add .asm files to the project and assemble  it
without errors.

However I am unable to debug my project.
When I go to the Debug menu, none of the choices
are active (such as run,animate etc.).

am i missing something here ?
do i need to setup the environment in a different way,
or is it justa keypress away ?

--ravindra