<div dir="ltr"><div>Someone, Please Help!</div>I can't figure out how to correct this weird error. The only relevant post I found was on the Alice Teachers' forum more than three years ago. <div>This is the error:<div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>"System property: org.alice.ide.rootDirectory is not set. Alice will not work until this is addressed."</i></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I get it when I try to open a jar that I created in Netbeans. </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here is what does work:</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can create a runnable jar from my own code in Netbeans. </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can run that jar on any system. </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can create a project in Alice 3. </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can save that project. </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I did successfully download and install the Alice plugin for Netbeans.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I did double-check the versions of my JDK, my Alice plugin, and Netbeans. They all seem compatible.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">[maybe there are more details about these versions that I need to check?]</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can import my Alice 3 project into Netbeans and run it.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can create a runnable jar from that project.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">* Here is the problem:</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">When I click on the runnable jar made from the Alice project, I get this error "...rootDirectory is not set..."</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I checked every setting I could think of and everything seems to match the (reputable) directions I have found online.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I don't know what to do. Please Help!</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This is the last part of a great project I have that I will share with all Alice users and Java developers, but I have to solve this first.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you for your time and consideration.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-Ed</pre><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Edward Pratowski<div>epratowski@NewHopeAcademy.net</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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