Graphical Layout Editor not available. Continue with alphanumeric editor.

What causes this issue?

You tried to start the layout editor and the "Grapical Screen Painter"
option is set in your Workbench settings. However, the graphical layout
editor is not available. Possible reasons include:
- You have insufficient memory resources on your frontend to start the
graphical layout editor process.
- The system was unable to find the Graphical Screen Painter program.
- The system was unable to execute the Graphical Screen Painter
program.
- Your frontend operating system does not support the graphical layout
editor. It is supported on the following platforms
Windows NT
Windows 95
Windows 98 and subsequent releases
- You do not use any GUI for Windows.
For an overview of all presently known causes and for tips on how to
remove them, see Note 204910.

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

System Response

The Screen Painter automatically ignores the "Graphical Screen Painter"
setting and opens the alphanumeric layout editor.

How to fix this error?

You can change the "Graphical layout editorr" setting permanently by
choosing Settings -> Graphical layout editor and activating or
deactivating the graphical layout editor option. Any changes take effect
the next time a new screen is displayed, and are retained indefinitely.

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