alice-teacher Objects in Gallery different

Tue Dec 16 15:48:37 EST 2014

See the attached two screen shots, “browse” and open”…

To import models from other locations on your computer or network other than the Alice3/My Classes directory: 

(Assume that the model that I want to import is on my Desktop - screen shots from OS X)

<“Browse" screen shot>
	1) Go to the Scene Editor
	2) In the Gallery, select the “My Classes” tab…
	3) Click on the “Browse” button

<“open" screen shot>
	4) In the Open dialog box that appears after clicking the Browse button
	5) Navigate through system to find the directory that contains the models that you want to import
	6) Select that directory - in the screen shot I have selected the Desktop
	7) Click the Open button

Any models in that directory should now appear in the Gallery

More explanation… Understand that the Browse button in the My Classes tab is not an “import" button to allow you to select a specific model to bring into the scene, but rather a "set directory” button that points Alice at an alternative location of models to be imported. This will allow Alice to then display the visual representation of the models that you want to import.

I hope that this helps. Let me know if you have another questions.

Later,
Don Slater

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 1:28 PM, McLean, Jennifer <jmclean at klschools.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes. That is what I did. Is there a way to insert the objects from a folder other than the default folder? I am on a network and the My Projects folder is not in the place where Alice was installed.
>  
> Thanks, Jen
> From: alice-teachers-bounces+jmclean=klschools.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <alice-teachers-bounces+jmclean=klschools.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on behalf of Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:04 AM
> To: Alice Teachers
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Objects in Gallery different
>  
> See the following link to this YouTube video to see if it helps…
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnRGg1KP9sE <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnRGg1KP9sE>
> 
> Let me know if you have any other questions…
> 
> All the best,
> Don Slater
> 
> 
>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:43 AM, McLean, Jennifer <jmclean at klschools.org <mailto:jmclean at klschools.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> I was trying to import the timer class that was created into alice 3.1. It was not showing up as an option. Does someone know how to do this?
>> 
>> Thanks, Jennifer McLean
>> From: alice-teachers-bounces+jmclean=klschools.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+jmclean=klschools.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> <alice-teachers-bounces+jmclean=klschools.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+jmclean=klschools.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> on behalf of Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>>
>> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 10:23 AM
>> To: Alice Teachers
>> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Objects in Gallery different
>>  
>> There are two possibilities:
>> 
>> 1) Download and reinstall as you suggest…
>> 2) Go to the Alice directory on a machine that has the complete Gallery, and open the required directory there. Inside you will see a “gallery” directory. Copy this complete directory and use it to replace the ‘deficient’ gallery directory on one of the other machines. Check to see if this worked for by starting Alice.
>> 
>> Whichever method seems to make the most sense for you.
>> 
>> Let me know if you continue to have problems.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Don Slater
>> 
>>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Laurie Solomon Cohen <lscohen613 at aol.com <mailto:lscohen613 at aol.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> No. When I follow what you said of how to update, I get a message File Not Found. Then when I click OK, it tells me to Restart for update to take effect. But nothing has been updated.
>>> Do you think I need to redownload and  reinstall Alice in all the computers?
>>> 
>>> Laurie Cohen
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>>
>>> To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>
>>> Sent: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 7:43 am
>>> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Objects in Gallery different
>>> 
>>> I do not have a good explanation for what is going on…
>>> 
>>> (The Space Gallery should have 15 objects in it)
>>> 
>>> The Alice 2 installation file is actually a zip or  .dmg  (Mac OS X) that contains the complete Alice package, including all the Gallery elements.
>>> 
>>> Try to Update Software  -> Download English Gallery option again. 
>>> 
>>> 1) Quit Alice if it is running
>>> 2) Restart Alice
>>> 3) Help menu -> select Update Software
>>> 4) Uncheck Update Software and check Download English Gallery (NOT Update English Gallery) -> this step should reinstall the complete Gallery
>>> 5) Click the Update button
>>> 
>>> (I am sure that you followed all these steps, included here for the other members of the listserv)
>>> 
>>> 6) A dialog box will appear with a download progress bar, showing the download activity
>>> 
>>> Here is where it might go wrong for you…
>>> 
>>> 7) The dialog box with the progress bar will disappear… BUT ALICE IS NOT YET DONE INSTALLING THE GALLERY
>>> 8) You will have to wait a few seconds until a dialog box telling you to restart Alice will appear (see attached image)
>>> 
>>> We recognize that this is non-intuitive and are working on a solution… But Alice at this point has handed off the unzipping of the downloaded Gallery file to your operating system, and so Alice waits until that operation is complete, and then the restart dialog box will appear…
>>> 
>>> 9) Click the Resart button
>>> 
>>> The Gallery should now be updated and complete. Please let us know if you continue to have problems…
>>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> Don Slater
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <restart.png>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Laurie Solomon Cohen <lscohen613 at aol.com <mailto:lscohen613 at aol.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We downloaded Alice 2.4.2 for all the workstations in our school lab. However, a few of the workstations have more Gallery items than others. For example, SPACE has 5 items (Classes) in most of the stations, but on one computer there are a lot more. There are more in Environments as well. I tried to Update, but it seems to be up to date.
>>>> Could it be that some of the Gallery items were downloaded from somewhere else? But they are a part of the regular Gallery, not the Custom Gallery.
>>>> Strange.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Laurie Cohen
>>>> Yeshiva of Greater Washington
>>>> Silver Spring, MD
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