Thank you very much for sending me the new Arduino ERW 1.0.3. It works fine with no mixed menu language pull down. I am a newbie in Arduino. Once again, thank you.
Can you capture the screen with the error? does it pops after the installation? Can you describe your machine? Windows version, what happens with the official one that drove you to try this mod, etc
Are you launching the IDE from the start menu? or launching the previous version?
What version did you installed? the FULL or the one that says no-java ?
I know installing .Net is not fun, but it is usually already installed by Windows Update and it makes the development of certain enhancements much easier.
Yes, the error message is because there is something wrong with java. The other thing you can try is installing java, and downloading the version without java. But your problem is very strange.
(Cute how they go in program files\arduino...... rather than just in program files..... how I have the other two.)
Took a bit of finding.
Installed the NON-JAVA version. Same problem.
It just gives up on me. Same error.
(I put in in a similar path but appended NO JAVA to the end, so I have both versions installed.)
Everything seems right, it is very weird. It should work. Maybe you can track the problem with Process Monitor, looking for locked files that Arduino.exe may fail to load.
By the way, you need to research something by yourself if you want to eventually solve the problem. If you have another XP you can compare the activity between the two logs. It is time consuming at first, but I personally can assure you, you can track any issue just with process monitor and process explorer.
I had the same error when I tried to use Arduino IDE 1.5R2. It turned out for me, that my files for the ATTiny series chips was causing the problems. It was folder called "Hardware" that contained the ATTiny files.
I shall ask Mr Google but there seems to be a missing DLL file.
Reading what I see, this "DWMAPI" is supposed to be standard with windows.
I have only recently upgraded to SP3 on this machine as I have only just got internet access on this machine.
Until them SP2 was good enough.
Reading the things, the DLL is supposed to be in just about any windows update.
Weird, I have just had a swag of them done, and none of them "installed" it or found it missing and replaced it.
The article also warns about downloading it from places, as it is supposed to be there already.