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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We figured out a workaround – it seems that his VM options were not set correctly. I noticed that all my other students had the flags<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-ea -Djogamp.gluegen.UseTempJarCache=false -Dorg.alice.ide.rootDirectory="${libs.Alice3Library.src}_root"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">But he had
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Changing his VM options (found in Netbeans project config -> Run) removed the “alice-teacher org.alice.ide.rootDirectory not set” error. Not sure how he managed
to setup his Alice plugin so that happened, but I think we’ve worked it out for now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Frederick, Kevin
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 22, 2014 10:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alice Teachers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: alice-teacher org.alice.ide.rootDirectory not set?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Don,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the response. There was a different version of the plugin. The student has upgraded the plugin so that we both now have the same version (3.1.88.0.0),
and tried it with a new Alice project, but we still have the same result. What else could I try?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kevin Frederick</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">High School Mathematics</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tel. +43 1 40132 2244<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#008542">A-1190 Vienna, Austria</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><a href="http://www.ais.at"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">www.ais.at</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+k.frederick=ais.at@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers-bounces+k.frederick=ais.at@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+k.frederick=ais.at@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+k.frederick=ais.at@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Don Slater<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2014 3:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alice Teachers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: alice-teacher org.alice.ide.rootDirectory not set?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a chance that you there are two different NetBeans plugins involved? Someone is using an older plugin version, or perhaps with Alice 3.1.92.0.0, someone is using the Java 7 plugin and someone is using the Java 8 plugin?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If they are different plugins for different versions of Alice 3 (3.1.88.0.0. vs 3.1.92.0.0, for example) then try updating the plugin. If it is a Java 7 vs a Java 8 problem, please let us know.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:don@alice.org">don@alice.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 14, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Frederick, Kevin <<a href="mailto:K.Frederick@ais.at">K.Frederick@ais.at</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Has anyone ever had the following error message?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">System property: org.alice.ide.rootDirectory is not set. Alice will not work until this is addressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This is when I try to run a project of out NetBeans (imported via the Alice plugin). It is a project from one of my students. None of the other students have this issue.
The project works fine on his computer, but not on either of mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I tried googling this and found nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I could set an environment or build variable if I knew what it should be set to. I tried setting to the location of Alice on my machine(s), but that didn’t seem to help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kevin Frederick</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">High School Mathematics</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tel. +43 1 40132 2244<br>
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