Hi Paul,

Lets redefine what I am doing for clarity - creating a second theme. I have the
 default theme & creating a second theme with customized menus & display files
(ansis).
My directory structure is 
/opt/mystic/themes/default
/opt/mystic/themes/newtheme
both have thier own text,script, & menus subdirectories.   

 PK>> I have 2 ansi text files, main.ans and mail.ans with exact same
 PK>> permissions. mail.ans is a copy (cp main.ans mail.ans). 
These are located in the newtheme/text/ directory

 PH> both are in the text directory and have the same permissions right?
Yes
 
PK>> In the Menu Settings, I have tried several differemt approaches, but
 PK>> mail.ans will not display.  main.ans displays no issues.
What I doscovered is that mystic is looking for the mail.ans file in the
/default/text directory MOT the /newtheme/text.

 PH> Are you trying to display mail.ans in a different menu or just change 
 PH> out the
 PH> main.ans for mail.ans in the main menu you're editing?
Customizing for a new theme

 PK>> And adding it into |DFmail doesnt work either.
 PH> Adding it where?
Editor->Menu->Settings

 PK>> I deleted the menu altogether, recreated, and still no luck. I delete 
 PK>> the mail.ans file & recreate it from main.ans, edit it in & save using
 PK>>  the Mystic Ansi Editor, still no luck. Lastly, I created, from 
 PK>> scratch, a very simplistic text file using Mystic Ansi editor and it 
 PK>> still doesnt show. I am baffled...

 PH> Deleted which menu?
It doesnt matter if the ansis are in the /newtheme/text directory as long as
they are in the /default/text.
 PH> Does the mail.ans display OK in the ansi editor?
Nope.

I validated this by renaming the /default/ directory to BogusDef & no screens
would display under the newtheme theme. As soon as Mystic located the ansis in
default/text, it displayed. Both default & newtheme paths are correct in the
themes editor. Even with /opt/mystic/text directory, Mystic is looking for the
default theme when displaying text files (ansis) that belong to a different
theme. 

 PH> Best, Paul

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Thanks for the help!!
Phil

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