I'm not an expert, but I think you have to "build" the project and let MPLAB run the assembler on your asm file before it can work with it. Give it a try. Good luck MIke M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kazman" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:17 AM Subject: [PIC]:MPLAB project help > I am having trouble with using MPLAB. > I went to mplab, opened developement mode, selected mplab sim simulator > piced the right processor (pic16f84), click apply. okay. > a screen comes up saying no hex file has been built for this project. > Even though I had a hex file that I created in it. It then was deleted > by the program. So I tried again with the same results. > > I then go to new project, name it, then save it to a directory, and the > following dialog box comes up, ITS LABELED AT THE TOP "NEW PROJECT > ERROR" inside the box it says dialog box failed. hlnst=3a4e > hframeWnd=4e0 > Thats as far as I can get. I have tried it on 3 different computers, > and > two different versions of mplab 5.11 and 5.40. > What am I doing wrong. > I did search the archives first. > > Thanks for your help. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.