rm2k3 help please

[Lost]

ok, i go on test battle to test my moster partys and i set it so i have two members fighting:

Jin, my main charecter, And ji, who uses bow.
Now the problem is is when i select for Ji to attack an enemy, nothing happens it just goes onto jins go, and i lose all my stuff in the bar under MP.

Two questions:

1:
What is the bar under Mp and how to remove it.

2:
How can i let Ji attack.

[mickygoruk]

1) The bar under MP is the time bar, which charges up a turn for your character...
2) never encountered this before, make sure theres an animation for the bow, and that the bow can do damage. if that don't work, i dunno if anything will... could be a dodgy translation

[ObviousDelirium]

Yeah,the battles are ATB,so it's an ATB bar like in FF.
As for the weapon,well,do like Mick said,check to see if it has a weapon animation and a ranged weapon projectile animation.