[plt-scheme] initialization for menu-item% error

From: Bruce Hauman (bhauman at cs.wcu.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 30 21:54:22 EST 2003

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Robby Findler wrote:

> At Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:20:02 -0500 (EST), Bruce Hauman wrote:
> > > When I launch the cvs version of drscheme I get:
> > >
> > > DrScheme internal Error:
> > > initialization for menu-item%: expects argument of type <parent menu% or
> > > popup-menu% object>; given #f
> > >
> > > and then it DrScheme will not launch.  This was a problem before I messed
> > > with font smoothing.
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> >
> > I corrected this by removing the configuration files in my home
> > directory.
> >
> > I just deleted them.  Now that I think about it I should have saved them.
>
> Which configuration files did you delete? .plt-prefs.ss?
>
> Robby

The error has come back and after a few tests it appears to be caused by
setting

Enable keybindings in menus

to false.

I did this through the preferences dialog.

Editing->General->Enable keybindings in menus

I will give you my preferences file if you need it.

Bruce


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