<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">At the moment, I am unable to recreate the freezing or the slow transition out of quad view on my Mac<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Processor: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 11px;" class="">2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Graphics: </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 11px;" class="">Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB</span> </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>8GB of RAM </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>OS Version: Sierra (10.12.6)</div><div class="">With Alice 2.4.3…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A couple of questions: </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Has Alice been running for a long time (more than an hour) without a restart (this can cause a myriad of issues)?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Do the projects involved have a lot of objects in them?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Quad view has always been somewhat flaky on Alice 2, as it was a late addition to the software when it was first released, and it has never gotten the love it deserved after that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But to be honest, these are the first reports we have of this particular behavior with it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any insights that anyone cn provide would be very helpful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, and all the best.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James, good luck with the coming storm. Be safe.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class="">Alice Project</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 6, 2017, at 10:24 PM, Vanderhyde, James <<a href="mailto:vanderhyde@sxu.edu" class="">vanderhyde@sxu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Not a freeze, but coming out of quad view is sometimes painfully slow on my Mac.<br class="">
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<div class="">On Sep 6, 2017, at 8:57 PM, Donald Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Bob,<br class="">
Eric may have other thoughts on this, but I do not recall seeing any other users mentioning this specific problem.<br class="">
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If anyone else in the community has been experiencing this, please let us know.<br class="">
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All the best,<br class="">
Don Slater<br class="">
Alice Project<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 6, 2017, at 8:15 AM, NIMMO, ROBERT <<a href="mailto:Robert.Nimmo@vernonct.org" class="">Robert.Nimmo@vernonct.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Eric<br class="">
Is there an issue with the 2.4 version also? I have had 5 macs freeze and stop responding this morning when switching from / to quad view. Never had this issue before. Anything I should know ?<br class="">
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From: alice-teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+robert.nimmo=vernonct.org@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers-bounces+robert.nimmo=vernonct.org@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> on behalf of Eric Brown <<a href="mailto:ewbrown@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">ewbrown@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br class="">
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Subject: alice-teacher Alice Critical Update and Newsletter<br class="">
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First up I want to let everyone know that our last release introduced an issue that unnecessarily overtaxes CPU specifically on Mac and Linux machines. If you have the most recent release 3.3.1.1 we highly recommend you update to our hot fix release that is
now available on the Alice 3 page. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. You can read more in the update here:<br class="">
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<a href="http://www.alice.org/alice-version-3-1-released/" class="">http://www.alice.org/alice-version-3-1-released/</a><br class="">
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On a positive note I want to call attention to some new materials that were recently added to the website showcasing how audio can be added to Alice worlds to enrich projects. Special thanks to our audio intern Julian Korzeniowsky for creating a new audio
library expansion pack that can be found on the Audio Library resource pages for both Alice 2 and Alice 3. You can also view a new featured world he created to showcase the different types of audio integration that can be implemented ranging from looping
background music to custom captured speech. The supporting how to videos are focused on Alice 3 but I am hoping Julian will find some time to create the same materials for Alice 2.<br class="">
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<a href="http://www.alice.org/featured-projects/sea-encounter/" class="">http://www.alice.org/featured-projects/sea-encounter/</a><br class="">
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Another special thanks goes out to Jiaxin Wen our design intern for her work cleaning up our document templates, logo files and much more. Thanks to her you can see our new amazing Alice intro and outro animations that bring the logo to life on the new audio
how to videos. We are excited to incorporate these great pieces into all of our future materials. Take a look here:<br class="">
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I do have a new request to find out if any of you out there have experience teaching Alice as well as teaching Unity. We are starting to do some examination of how things that students learn in Alice could be more directly leveraged when transitioning to learning
Unity and would love to hear from people willing to lend insight or have discussions around that subject. Please feel free to email me directly if you can help.<br class="">
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Lastly Jennifer thank you for pointing out our missing resources. We are still working to go through and clean up all the current materials and update so please check back. Thank you to those who have pointed out other videos that are referenced in other
materials that people need. We are working to get new version of those back up as well. Please don’t hesitate to request specific materials or share videos you have created or are using and we will do what we can to turn them around as quickly as possible.<br class="">
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Sincerely,<br class="">
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Eric<br class="">
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Eric Brown<br class="">
Alice Project<br class="">
Carnegie Mellon University<br class="">
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