alice-teacher Alice 2 command line

[Don Slater]

Warning: This is an advanced topic and may be of limited interest to many members of the list… But it applies to the recent thread on double-clicking an Alice project file and having it launch Alice, as opposed to having to open Alice project files from within Alice...

<begin answer>

It is possible to launch Alice from the Terminal command line in OS X using:

	open -a <path to the directory containing the Alice app on your system>/Alice.app/Contents/MacOS/Alice

on my machine, where Alice 2.3 located in my system Applications directory, I can type:

	open -a /Applications/Alice.app/Contents/MacOS/Alice

Unfortunately, the open command does not take arguments, such as file names, to link the project file to the application…

There may be an alternative command that I have not yet found…

We will look into the double-click on an .a2w or .a3p to launch Alice issue…

All the best,
Don Slater

On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:30 PM, James Vanderhyde <jvanderhyde at benedictine.edu> wrote:

> Is there a way to launch Alice 2 from the command line, and if so, is one of the command-line parameters the Alice 2 world file to load? If so, I could use this information to open .a2w files by double-clicking the file, which otherwise doesn't work on Mac OS X.
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