Hi,

In the past there's been quite a few errors with global functions. One of them, was that sometimes the header in the code is repeated twice and the code is also duplicated.

1. Optimize the PBL file.
2. Edit the source code and copy the code. Make sure the code is not duplicated somehow.
3. Create a new function and paste the code.
4. Delete the old funcion and
5. rename your new function to be called the same as your old function.

regards.

Thanks for the quick response and it is all working now!

When I submitted question I was thinking it was something similar to the DW crashing of your 3rd response,
but I never tried doing that. I bet it would have worked, but I didn't see that post until after I got it working.

I optimized the PBL as you suggested, but the painter was crashing on any/all functions,
so I didn't want to do the create and delete all of the functions. Way too much work.

But I could create a new function and the painter would open. So I did that to open the painter.

I noticed the open painter window ribbon bar extended in a single line off the end of the window.
I had in other painters added some custom buttons, making the "PowerBar" longer and this pushed the painterbar over.

So I moved the "painterbar" to be under the PowerBar, and thus the ribbon fit in the open window.

In addition I deleted the current layout (under view) and resaved the default layout.

Now the function painter works perfectly.

Again thanks for the responses. 

~john