alice-teacher Trouble adding Objects on a Mac

[Don Slater]

Ambra,
Which version of Alice are you using?

Right-click on the name of the object in the object tree, select "procedures" from the context menu that appears, and use the move procedures to move the object away from its current location, which should allow you to get at the object…

Later,
Don Slater

On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Hook, Ambra wrote:

> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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