alice-teacher Take Picture in Alice 2.3
Don Slater
dslater at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Jan 29 14:39:47 EST 2013
The "Take Picture" button in the latest release of Alice 2.3 has been removed.
By way of explanation, this was not an arbitrary decision. The problem is that the built-in "Take a Picture" in Alice 2
was created using Direct X for the PC. Therefore, it doesn't work for Mac users and recent updates of Direct X cause
problems on newer systems (Vista, Windows 7, and now Windows 8).
Therefore, we have had a increasing number of complaints and that has led to disabling the feature and asking
people to simply use whatever screen capture they have on their computer. See the following links:
For Windows
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Take-a-screen-capture-print-screen
For OS X
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Don Slater
Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office phone: (412) 268-4370
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