alice-teacher (no subject)

[Don Slater]

Alice 2.2 and Alice 3.0 Beta are not compatible… 

It certainly is possible that the student has too many objects in the scene…

I would recommend that the student scale back on the number of objects to the bare minimum to tell the story, build the story, and slowly add objects, saving at each step until it reaches the limits. WE cannot give you a hard and fast number of objects, as they all have different memory sizes.

With some objects that are being used solely as props / scenery, using the clone tool in scene setup may allow you to add more copies of objects with a reduced impact on memory. But I would recommend that you do not attempt to animate these copies, as they are, in an object-oriented programming sense, shallow copies, and trying to anmate them may create some undesirable side-effects. 

All the best,
Don Slater

On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:26 AM, kocafp at zoominternet.net wrote:

> 
> Alice's working memory is not big enough , clipboard or otherwise---3.0 Beta might do it?
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Fri 02/24/12 09:21 , "Thompson, Paul Dexter" thompspd at iupui.edu sent:
> 
> Are you running the latest release (12/01/2011)?
> 
> Paul Thompson, MSM, ITIL
> Adjunct Faculty - CIT
> Department of Computer, Information, and Leadership Technology
> Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
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> From: alice-teachers-bounces+thompspd=iupui.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [alice-teachers-bounces+thompspd=iupui.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] on behalf of Zippin, Mark [zippinm at sps.springfield.ma.us]
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:46 PM
> To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: alice-teacher (no subject)
> 
> One of my students has a pretty in-depth movie/game-in-progress. Unfortunately, when he adds objects,  the program closes without saving his work. This is a consistent problem. This problem will happen even if Alice is opened from the computer itself or the flash drive. We still have not started programing, we are just adding objects. The student is currently working on a game and is trying to make progress on the background and detail work for the game before the programming begins.
> 
> Would you know why his is happening, and would it have to do with the file using up a good amount of data, specifically about 73,675KB?
> 
> Thank you
> 
>  
>  
>  
> Mark A. Zippin
> 
> Springfield Public Day High School
> 
> 90 Berkshire Ave.
> 
> Springfield, MA
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> 413.787.7036
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