On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net>wrote:
> Robby Findler writes: > > I am not seeing any hanging, but I did see an error and just pushed a > fix for that. How > > are you getting things to hang? > > It's not deterministic, unfortunately. The best recipe I found is this: > > 1) Type the following code into DrRacket (or load it from a file): > > #lang slideshow > > (slide > (t "Hello world") > ) > > 2) Put the cursor before the last closing parenthesis. > > 3) Insert Pict Box. > > 4) Quit DrRacket > > This hangs at about every fourth attempt. > > It didn't hang yet for me after 12 attempts. If you do see it again, and you started DrRacket from a shell prompt, hit control-c and we might get lucky and get an informative stacktrace. > I also get the error message "Only pure text files supported", This is intended to be more of a warning about a limitation of online check syntax. > and I > cannot do anything with a pict box other than delete it. I tried > clicking and double-clicking with all three mouse buttons, then I ran > out of ideas. A right-click shows the popup "Cannot show picts: run > program to cache sizes first". But running the program makes no difference. > You probably want to insert a Racket box into the pict box and then type some code in there that evaluates to a pict. But I fear you'll be disappointed. The reason I mothballed these (and I had forgotten about the environment variable!) was because they were just too clunky. Robby
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