alice-teacher Unable to run alice 2.3

Sat Nov 10 09:44:42 EST 2012

For this Mac users having trouble starting Alice 2.x on their machine.

To run Alice in 32-bit mode on the Mac: (see the attached screen shots)

Find the Alice application on your machine.
	1) right-click on the Alice application icon
	2) select Get Info form the context menu that appears
	3) in the General settings of in the Get Info panel, click the checkbox for "Open in 32-bit mode"

We will post instructions for windows soon, although I suspect it is very similar.

All the best,
Don Slater

On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Steve Cooper <coopers at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Don,
>   Maybe provide the folks the instructions how to open an app in 32
> bit mode rather than 64 bit mode.
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> 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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