alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 40, Issue 11

[Don Slater]

No, you will not be able to open a .a2p or a .a2w in a web browser. You may only be able to open those files from within the Alice 3 application for .a3p or from within Alice 2 for .a2w.

Some OS’s will allow you to double-click on the files to launch the applications, and we are working to add this functionality, but the surest way to open an Alice project is form within Alice itself.

Later,
Don Slater

On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:32 AM, André Gustavo Schaeffer <andre_schaeffer at yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Susan/Don.
> I am sorry. Didn't understand.
> You mean if I try to open an a3p or a2w file using a web browser it should 
> open?
> I tried but raised a "java not found error", even that I really have java 
> installed, and also alice 2 and 3 working fine in my PC.
> Thanks.
> 
> André Gustavo Schaeffer
> andre_schaeffer at yahoo.com.br
> https://sites.google.com/site/andregustavoschaeffer
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> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:09:25 -0800
> From: Susan Rivas <susanmrivas at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Posted Alice 3.1
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> Hi Don,
> Thank you for saving the day! Yes, now the Alice 3.1 Worlds my students
> created can be downloaded and enjoyed. I appreciate your help.
> 
> Take care,
> Susan
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> See the following link, which will offer some explanations, if not a real
>> solution:
>> 
>> http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/qt/html_dwnld_tag.htm
>> 
>> This paragraph from the above link offers some insight into what is going
>> on...
>> 
>> When you click on a link in a web page, your web browser automatically
>> attempts to open that link in the browser window. And now, with various
>> plugins and other features, browsers can open more and more files that 
>> they
>> used to be forced to download. Most of the time, this is what we 
>> want?after
>> all, we're building web pages. But sometimes you post files to your 
>> website
>> that you want people to download to their hard drive rather than view in
>> the browser window.
>> 
>> 
>> It seems that the format of .a3p is different enough from the .a2w files,
>> so that browsers will attempt to open the .a3p, and they do not try to 
>> open
>> the .a2w.
>> 
>> I do not believe that the ?_blank? modifier to the target tag really has
>> impact on whether the browser will attempt to download or open a file. See
>> this link:
>> 
>> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp
>> 
>> ?_blank? species that the file will be open in a new window, which is what
>> we see going on with the .a3p files.
>> 
>> Your best bet for the .a3p files is to more prominently display
>> instructions that users should right-click on the link and select to save
>> the file to their machine (as recommended in the first link).
>> 
>> I hope that this helps?
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Don Slater
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Susan Rivas <susanmrivas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to post my students' "worlds" in Alice 3.1 and when I try to
>> download them, they come out like garbage. Whereas, the games my students
>> created in Alice 2.2 downloaded fine. I used the code: target="_blank" so
>> that they would be individual downloadable files. Please let me know if 
>> you
>> can figure out what I need to do.
>> 
>> This is the link for the interactive games in Alice 2.2 that work:
>> http://srivas-computerlab.com/bcc/video_game.html
>> 
>> This is the link for the worlds in Alice 3.1 that do not download
>> correctly: http://srivas-computerlab.com/acc/iWorld.html
>> 
>> Thanks for your help!
>> 
>> Take care,
>> Susan Rivas
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>> Susan Rivas
>> Shoreline Middle School
>> 855 17th Avenue
>> Santa Cruz, CA 95062
>> (831)475-6565 ext. 214
>> 
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