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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