alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12- Problem running Alice 2.x (JACKIE MASLOFF)

Wed Sep 18 16:00:49 EDT 2013

Hi All,

What I have done is right click the .a2w file and clicked open. When the popup window opens and ask to "Open With" I will browse for the Alice application on my hard drive and select that. I would also make sure that the "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" check box is checked. This assigns all files with the .a2w extension to open with the Alice application. 

Thanks,
Rex

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Jackie;

I'm guessing from your email that you are trying to run an Alice xxx.a2w file by double clicking on it.
the Alice 2 World (.a2w) files that Alice produces are really zip files that contains the elements of the world. Unfortunately Windows ignores the A2W extension and treats it as a .zip file.

The only way I've found to run an Alice 2 World is to start Alice and open it from within Alice.

Best
Bob Durtschi

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   1.  Problem running Alice 2.x (JACKIE MASLOFF)
   2.  Problems with running Alice 2.x (JACKIE MASLOFF)
   3.  User created ground in Alice 3 question (Myra J. Deister)
   4. Re:  User created ground in Alice 3 question (Don Slater)

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I have a student in my class who downloaded Alice and then appears to have started running it from the zip file. Now when he tries to open files from Windows explorer he gets a message that "you are attempting to run Alice from a zip file."

So I downloaded Alice again and then unzipped it to the Program files directory and tried again to open a file from Windows explorer and get the same message.

I am baffled by this. Any suggestions?

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Jackie Masloff
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Newbury College
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I have a student in my class who downloaded Alice and then appears to have started running it from the zip file. Now when he tries to open files from Windows explorer he gets a message that "you are attempting to run Alice from a zip file." The student is running Windows 8.

So I downloaded Alice again and then unzipped it to the Program files directory and tried again to open a file from Windows explorer and get the same message.

I am baffled by this. Any suggestions?
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From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
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Myra,
See the video at this link, and let me know if this is not what you are looking for?

        https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332970/ChangeGroundTexture.mp4

I hope that this helps?

All the best,
Don Slater

On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:40 AM, "Myra J. Deister" <mjdeister at fjuhsd.k12.ca.us> wrote:

> I am rewriting the labs for Alice/Media Comp for Alice 3.  One lab that I am working on is importing a small gradient square into Alice to use as the ground.  It is possible to do that in Alice 2, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it in Alice 3.  Is it possible?
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