alice-teacher Unable to run alice 2.3

[Don Slater]

This may be a 32/64 bit operating system problem. Our JOGL libraries are for 32bit system, so all 64 bit users need to make their Alice open in 32bit. There is a setting in the properties to do this (for both MAC and Windows).

Don Slater

On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Matjaz Marussig <marussig at siol.net> wrote:

> Hi, I did remove .alice folder, but the situation is the same. I remove everything from register as well. Eve, did you install Alice 3.1 before?
> 
> Matjaz
> 
> 
> On 9 November 2012 16:02, Eve Juarez <emjuarez1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I experienced the exact same problem.   I was able to bring up 2.2 successfully.  
> Here is a dump of IfAliceFailsTryThis.exe
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Registered succesfully
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class edu.cmu.cs.stage3.ali
> ce.scenegraph.renderer.directx7renderer.Renderer
>         at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstruct
> orAccessorImpl.java:39)
>         at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingC
> onstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
>         at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
>         at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
>         at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.scenegraph.renderer.DefaultRenderTargetFactor
> y.getRenderer(DefaultRenderTargetFactory.java:85)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.scenegraph.renderer.DefaultRenderTargetFactor
> y.setIsSoftwareEmulationForced(DefaultRenderTargetFactory.java:79)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.getRenderTargetFa
> ctory(AuthoringTool.java:990)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.CameraViewP
> anel.renderInit(CameraViewPanel.java:872)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.SceneEditor
> .setAuthoringTool(SceneEditor.java:238)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.guiInit(JAliceFrame
> .java:176)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.<init>(JAliceFrame.
> java:87)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.mainInit(Authorin
> gTool.java:461)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.<init>(AuthoringT
> ool.java:411)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main(JAlice.java:138)
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.scenegraph.renderer.DefaultRenderTargetFactor
> y.setIsSoftwareEmulationForced(DefaultRenderTargetFactory.java:79)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.getRenderTargetFa
> ctory(AuthoringTool.java:990)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.CameraViewP
> anel.renderInit(CameraViewPanel.java:872)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.SceneEditor
> .setAuthoringTool(SceneEditor.java:238)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.guiInit(JAliceFrame
> .java:176)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.<init>(JAliceFrame.
> java:87)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.mainInit(Authorin
> gTool.java:461)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.<init>(AuthoringT
> ool.java:411)
>         at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main(JAlice.java:138)
> 
> From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>; Aik Min <aik_min at yahoo.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:51 PM
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Unable to run alice 2.3
> 
> Alice 2.x actually does not need Java installed as it comes with its own VM.
> 
> One thing I discovered with this latest version is that if you are using a shortcut or a Dock icon that was created with an earlier version, the latest version, 2.3.1, will not work, and that I had to recreate the shortcut / dock icon.
> 
> If changing the shortcut does not work for you, would you do me a favor and download an earlier version of Alice, to see if it will install and run. Try the August 5 version, available at this link…
> 
> 	http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/alice2.2_archive
> 
> Thank you,
> Don Slater
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Matjaz Marussig <marussig at siol.net> wrote:
> 
>> My Alice 2.3 starts, but hangs on loading... It runs on Win XP, SP3, Core2Duo, 2GHz, 3GBRAM, 1280x720 resolution screen, Java 6.31. I must end the process in task manager.
>> 
>> Do someone have some suggestion what to do?
>> 
>> Thanks.
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