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When running latest stable PChat (1.0.3) and the Perl plugin I get reams of "gdkdrawable-win32.c:1259: LineTo failed: Access is denied." errors outputed in a (warning) tab.
Seems to be caused by Perl, because it is fine and doesn't occur after I unload the plugin.
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Confirmed. Is there any way you can show us what scripts you were running?
I noticed it, but figured it was do to my bad perl skills.
Is there any rhyme or reason to the way these occur?
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I'm not running any scripts at the moment except those that come with the package, which are:
*Exec
*DNS
*XTray
so its when you have the perl plugin loaded as well? And you haven't loaded any scripts, it just does this?
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
Yes
Okay, thanks for helping to diagnose this more accurately.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
That happens to me too; I'm not using any Perl scripts, and the problem started before the Perl plugin was added, IIRC.
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yeah that warning iirc is related to a certain environment variable, I'll have that wrapped in the next release, don't worry about it now it won't kill PChat nor is it a bug of PChat or Perl plugin bug.
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
hi!
i download the "Perl for PChat Portable 5.10.1 "
and install it up to latest Pchatportable folder ...
but i cant load any perl plugin
i get an error
cannot open perl510.dll
you must have activeperl 5.10 installed in order to run perl scripts.
blablabla
make sure perl's bin direcrory is in your path
any idea? ppease help
this is another intermittent problem we seem to have :(.
Grab Avtice perl from here.
Install, then copy the perl folder at C:\perl to PChatPortable\App, so that the App folder has a folder called perl with a couple folder in it.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
Do you have activeperl locally?
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
what you mean??
i only the portable pchat and the Perl for "PChat Portable 5.10.1 "
i havent got anything else
On the computer you are using, do you have activestate activeperl installed locally?
i.e., by pressing win+r, and typing cmd, hitting enter, you should get a command prompt.
If you type in perl --help and press enter, do you get output? Or does windows complain about the command.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
im getting this error
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
:/
thanks, that means that perl is not installed locally. Which is a good thing, except that it kills a idea I had for why the plugin was not working.
This is a issue Zach (and I?) will have to work on. For now, I sugesst just using activeperl as I prescribed above.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
i test this one toooo but nothing works again :/
Did you copy the content of the C:\perl folder to PChatPortable\App\perl?
I am going to have to make a diagnostic program for this I think
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
i copy it but nothing happened (i restart pchat and then all computer just in case)
tell me what folders you have in PChatPortable\App\Perl
Check out this also https://portableapps.com/support/chat
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world