[plt-scheme] Re: Startup Problem

From: Curtis Dutton (curtdutt at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 30 01:27:11 EDT 2009

Ha I hit this too.

I used synaptics to remove and reinstall plt scheme.

The reinstall was for 4.1.something.

I did get to see the easter egg on startup of drscheme.

I then reinstalled latest and got the same issue. See you all
tomorrow ;-)

-Curt

On Jul 30, 1:19 am, Robby Findler <ro... at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> This is a bug in an easter egg (argh).
>
> You can fix it by either changing your date to anything besides july
> 30th, or by changing the definition of on-paint in the definition of
> splash-canvas% in collects/framework/splash.ss to this:
>
>    (define/override (on-paint) (when splash-cache-bitmap (send
> (get-dc) draw-bitmap splash-cache-bitmap 0 0)))
>
> or by getting the latest in SVN.
>
> Apologies,
> Robby
>
> PS: Happy birthday, Eli!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Roshan Mathews<rmath... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have PLT-Scheme (plt-4.1.5-bin-i386-win32) on Windows (Vista).
>
> > When I start it it, it opens a "Standard Output" window, with this message:
>
> >    draw-bitmap in dc<%>: expected argument of type <bitmap% object>; given #f
>
> >     === context ===
> >    E:\Program Files\PLT\collects\drscheme\private\drscheme-normal.ss:208:15
>
> > DrScheme was working before this came up, if that helps.
>
> > This happened even after I reinstalled it, so maybe there is something
> > left behind after an uninstall that I must remove?
>
> > I even upgraded to plt-4.2-bin-i386-win32 and the problem remained, so
> > what stays between installations?  Registry entries?
>
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> > Regards,
> > Roshan Mathews
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