alice-teacher Alice 2.4.2 gallery

[Susan Stein]

Hi,

I've tried to download the English Gallery several times, but it's not 
working. The only object in my English Gallery is the Ice Skater. Any ideas?

Sue

> Don Slater <mailto:dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> July 13, 2014 at 11:06 PM
> The ballerina’s are in the English Gallery… A problem in the download 
> system, is that when the download progress bar shows the completion of 
> the progress bar, one thinks that the process is over. However, the 
> download only copies the EnglishGallery .zip file to the gallery 
> directory of the Required directory in the Alice package (take a look 
> and you will probably see it.)
>
> What we are not yet showing in this Gallery download process is that 
> Alice will then unzip this downloaded file. Many have and will believe 
> that when the download progress bar is complete, the Gallry is ready. 
> It is not. The downloaded file has to unzip. When the uncompression is 
> completed, Alice will then show a “Restart Alice” dialog box.
>
> After restarting Alice, the English Gallery will then be displayed in 
> the Scene editor.
>
> More succinctly, go to software updates, select download English 
> Gallery, and then wait for the restart Alice dialog box.
>
> Let us know if you continue to have problems.
>
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>
>
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> Robert Durtschi <mailto:robert.durtschi at gcsu.edu>
> July 13, 2014 at 5:55 PM
> I've downloaded and installed Alice 2.4.2 with a "version 2.4.2 (July 
> 2014)" on the load screen.
>
> No ballerinas
>
> We are using "An Introduction to Programming Using Alice 2.2 Second 
> Edition" by Charles W. Herbert at GCSU, which uses ballerinas as a 
> project:
>
> You are going to build a world with two objects, a blueBallerina and a 
> pinkBallerina. Click the green ADD OBJECTS button and add a 
> blueBallerina and a pinkBallerina to the world from the People folder 
> in the Local Gallery
>
>
> I tried "download English gallery" from help=>software update and just 
> got the "core gallery".
> I tried "update English gallery" and only saw a people folder, which 
> only contained "class iceskater1" and "create 3D text. I was able to 
> find the core gallery by clicking on Home.
>
> Is there a way of merging the older 2.3 gallery with the 2.4.2 gallery 
> to get them back?
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