alice-teacher (no subject)

[Rikki Fletcher]

Is this shallow copy issue also one where we save objects out and then
import them?

> 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
>> 799 West Michigan Street,
>> Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
>> Phone: (317) 292-8756
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>> thompspd at iupui.edu
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 413.787.7036
>>
>>
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