<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For this Mac users having trouble starting Alice 2.x on their machine.<div><br></div><div>To run Alice in 32-bit mode on the Mac: (see the attached screen shots)</div><div><br></div><div>Find the Alice application on your machine.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1) right-click on the Alice application icon</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2) select Get Info form the context menu that appears</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3) in the General settings of in the Get Info panel, click the checkbox for "Open in 32-bit mode"</div><div><br></div><div>We will post instructions for windows soon, although I suspect it is very similar.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Don Slater</div><div><br></div><div><img height="282" width="406" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="4a5dd989-f113-4d89-a28b-b08fe3a42a26" src="cid:59E01465-AD70-4A8E-80C1-65371FBAB7B7@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."><img height="436" width="770" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="cabd5192-3adc-4769-9858-ec4ef8529da5" src="cid:BAFF91CB-D3C8-4D27-8D2E-8B21F3DE4AAD@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."><img height="814" width="400" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="fe2ee822-17f2-4769-804f-09697cdddd18" src="cid:387A8799-172A-4235-831D-E38AA8AE16A0@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Steve Cooper <<a href="mailto:coopers@cs.stanford.edu">coopers@cs.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Don,<br> Maybe provide the folks the instructions how to open an app in 32<br>bit mode rather than 64 bit mode.<br>Regards,<br>Steve<br><br>On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Don Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">This may be a 32/64 bit operating system problem. Our JOGL libraries are for<br>32bit system, so all 64 bit users need to make their Alice open in 32bit.<br>There is a setting in the properties to do this (for both MAC and Windows).<br><br>Don Slater<br><br>On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Matjaz Marussig <<a href="mailto:marussig@siol.net">marussig@siol.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>Hi, I did remove .alice folder, but the situation is the same. I remove<br>everything from register as well. Eve, did you install Alice 3.1 before?<br><br>Matjaz<br><br><br>On 9 November 2012 16:02, Eve Juarez <<a href="mailto:emjuarez1@yahoo.com">emjuarez1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>I experienced the exact same problem. I was able to bring up 2.2<br>successfully.<br>Here is a dump of IfAliceFailsTryThis.exe<br><br><br><br><br>Registered succesfully<br>java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.ali<br>ce.scenegraph.renderer.directx7renderer.Renderer<br> at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native<br>Method)<br> at<br>sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstruct<br>orAccessorImpl.java:39)<br> at<br>sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingC<br>onstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)<br> at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)<br> at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)<br> at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.scenegraph.renderer.DefaultRenderTargetFactor<br>y.getRenderer(DefaultRenderTargetFactory.java:85)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.scenegraph.renderer.DefaultRenderTargetFactor<br>y.setIsSoftwareEmulationForced(DefaultRenderTargetFactory.java:79)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.getRenderTargetFa<br>ctory(AuthoringTool.java:990)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.CameraViewP<br>anel.renderInit(CameraViewPanel.java:872)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.SceneEditor<br>.setAuthoringTool(SceneEditor.java:238)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.guiInit(JAliceFrame<br>.java:176)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.<init>(JAliceFrame.<br>java:87)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.mainInit(Authorin<br>gTool.java:461)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.<init>(AuthoringT<br>ool.java:411)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main(JAlice.java:138)<br>java.lang.NullPointerException<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.scenegraph.renderer.DefaultRenderTargetFactor<br>y.setIsSoftwareEmulationForced(DefaultRenderTargetFactory.java:79)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.getRenderTargetFa<br>ctory(AuthoringTool.java:990)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.CameraViewP<br>anel.renderInit(CameraViewPanel.java:872)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.editors.sceneeditor.SceneEditor<br>.setAuthoringTool(SceneEditor.java:238)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.guiInit(JAliceFrame<br>.java:176)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAliceFrame.<init>(JAliceFrame.<br>java:87)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.mainInit(Authorin<br>gTool.java:461)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.<init>(AuthoringT<br>ool.java:411)<br> at<br>edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main(JAlice.java:138)<br><br>From: Don Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>To: Alice educators <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>>; Aik Min<br><<a href="mailto:aik_min@yahoo.com">aik_min@yahoo.com</a>><br>Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:51 PM<br>Subject: Re: alice-teacher Unable to run alice 2.3<br><br>Alice 2.x actually does not need Java installed as it comes with its own<br>VM.<br><br>One thing I discovered with this latest version is that if you are using a<br>shortcut or a Dock icon that was created with an earlier version, the latest<br>version, 2.3.1, will not work, and that I had to recreate the shortcut /<br>dock icon.<br><br>If changing the shortcut does not work for you, would you do me a favor<br>and download an earlier version of Alice, to see if it will install and run.<br>Try the August 5 version, available at this link…<br><br><a href="http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/alice2.2_archive">http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/alice2.2_archive</a><br><br>Thank you,<br>Don Slater<br><br><br>On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Matjaz Marussig <marussig@siol.net> wrote:<br><br>My Alice 2.3 starts, but hangs on loading... It runs on Win XP, SP3,<br>Core2Duo, 2GHz, 3GBRAM, 1280x720 resolution screen, Java 6.31. 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