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

Fri Sep 20 11:13:54 EDT 2013

Hello,

I also use Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), with Alice 2.3 folder in the
root of C:\ drive, and that works for me.  I can double click on any Alice
project and it will open with Alice. However, I keep my "Alice Project"
folder in "My Documents" for convenience of backing up.

regards,
Mark Ho

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Rex McKanry <rmckanry at stchas.edu> wrote:

>  Hi Bob,
>
>
>
> The only differences I see at the OS and the Alice application locaton. I
> have Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) and I have Alice 2.3 in the Program
> Files folder. Out of those two I believe you are correct about Alice being
> in the Program Files folder.
>
>
>
> I copied my Alice 2.3 from the Program Files folder and placed it in the
> My Documents folder. I then renamed the Alice2.3 folder in the Program
> Files folder. I tested the new copy of Alice2.3 in the MyDocuments folder
> to make sure it opened and it did fine. So I went to my .a2w file and right
> clicked it so I could select which app to open it with, I navigated to the
> new copy of Alice2.3 in the My Documents folder and it would not open. It
> opened Adobe Reader instead (not sure why). I tried this a couple times and
> it still would not assocated the .a2w file with the Alice2.3 application in
> the My Documents fiolder. I then deleted the copy of Alice2.3 from the My
> Documents folder and returned the name of my orignal Alice2.3 folder in the
> Program Files folder and than re assocated the file with the Alice
> application in the Program Files folder. Not it's back to normal.
>
>
>
> Just to see if it works I would just try and copy your Alice2.3 folder
> over to the Program Files folder and try to open with again without
> deleting the Alice2.3 folder in the My Documents folder and test it.
>
>
>
> Let me know what happens.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rex
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* alice-teachers-bounces+rmckanry=stchas.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<alice-teachers-bounces+rmckanry=
> stchas.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on behalf of robert durtschi <
> robert_durtschi at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:49 AM
> *To:* Alice educators
> *Subject:* Re: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12- Problem running
> Alice 2.x (Rex McKanry)
>
>   Hi Rex;
>
> Your computer must be setup differently than mine. I had tried that in the
> past and it didn't work.  I tried it just now, carefully following your
> instructions and it still doesn't work:
>
> I've got Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit running on an Acer laptop.
> Alice is installed in the My Documents directory
>
> I right clicked on an .a2w file and choose "Open With"
>  The "Choose the program you want to use to open the file" window popped
> up.
> Ignored the two choices offered by the OS (Firefox and IE) and clicked on
> "Choose default program..."
> In the new pop-up ignored the Recommended Programs (Firefox and IE) and
> clicked "Browse..."
> Clicked on the arrow next to "My Documents" to expand the folder
> selections
> Scrolled down to the "Alice 2.3" folder
> Clicked on the folder to open it.
> Clicked on Alice.exe (My default is to show known extensions, I've been a
> programmer for 40+ years)
> Clicked on the Open button
> Windows went back to the "Choose the program you want to use to open the
> file" window but did Not show Alice as an option.
>
> Just to verify that it's Alice that Windows (on my computer) hates, I hit
> browse again and navigated down to and selected java.exe
> This time it showed a plethora of choices (my favorite word since I saw
> the movie "The Three Amigos")
>
> The only thing I can think of off-hand is that Alice.exe is not installed
> in the "program files" directory so is not recognized as "real" application
> program. Or perhaps there is a registery entry that I need to add.
>
> Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  Bob Durtschi
>
>
>    *From:* Rex McKanry <rmckanry at stchas.edu>
> *To:* Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:00 PM
> *Subject:* Re: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12- Problem running
> Alice 2.x (JACKIE MASLOFF)
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice-teachers-bounces+rmckanry=stchas.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu[mailto:
> alice-teachers-bounces+rmckanry=stchas.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On
> Behalf Of Robert Durtschi
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:05 PM
> To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12- Problem running
> Alice 2.x (JACKIE MASLOFF)
>
> 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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> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:09:26 -0400
> From: JACKIE MASLOFF <jackie.masloff at newbury.edu>
> Subject: alice-teacher Problem running Alice 2.x
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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?
>
> --
> Jackie Masloff
> Adjunct Faculty--Computer Science
> Newbury College
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> From: JACKIE MASLOFF <jackie.masloff at newbury.edu>
> Subject: alice-teacher Problems with running Alice 2.x
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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: "Myra J. Deister" <mjdeister at fjuhsd.k12.ca.us>
> Subject: alice-teacher User created ground in Alice 3 question
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> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:15:50 -0400
> From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher User created ground in Alice 3 question
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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:
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> > 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?
> >
> > Myra Deister
> > 714-626-4320
> > Mathematics and Computer Science Teacher Sunny Hills High School
> > Fullerton, CA Computer Science Teachers Association At-Large
> > Representative OCCUE Board of Directors member
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