alice-teacher Trouble adding Objects on a Mac

[Hook, Ambra]

Hello,
Using Alice on both a Mac and a PC.
After adding the first object and setting the original camera view, I am having trouble on a Mac placing additional objects to world on a Mac where I need them. They all fall hidden under the First object and I can not get to them.  This problem is not happening on my PC.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Black" <samblack at gmail.com>
To: "Alice educators" <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:29:17 AM
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Question about Strange Behavior -- Alice 2.2

You understand my description correctly, Don. 

Thanks again!

Sam

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On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Sam,
> I have forwarded your report to the support team… Just to be clear, this happens for only a few students who are working on essentially the same machines as the other students?
> 
> Thanks,
> Don
> 
> On Jun 28, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Sam Black wrote:
> 
>> Kathleen,
>> 
>> The folder icon is not one of the compressed folder icons (i.e., with a zipper down the middle).  Alice appears to have not followed through with the compression at all after the saving process.
>> 
>> Don,
>> 
>> We don't have access to WinZip, but we do have 7zip.  I just tried using it, changing the file type, and importing.  This time it acted like it was going to work but then it threw a FileNotFoundException saying it was missing elementData.xml.
>> 
>> And, we still don't get any reported errors during the "Save Object" process.
>> 
>> Hope this helps in tracking down the problem.
>> 
>> Sam
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kathleen O'Brien <kathleen at laughton.com> wrote:
>> Windows does not really expand compressed files. It just looks like it does because it displays the compressed file like a folder. To really uncompress the file, you have to drag or copy the folder to another location. 
>> 
>> I do not know if that has anything to do with your problem, but I thought I would pass it on.
>> 
>> Kathleen
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> Yes, you might try that, particularly if you use WinZip, not the built in Windows compressor… Speaking of that. Does Windows 7 have a setting in which it automatically expands compressed files, and these machines have that turned on, and others do not. I am trying to figure out why it is happening to some and not to others…
>> 
>> Keep us posted,
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>> 
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