alice-teacher Alice 3 Installation issues?

[Donald Slater]

Version 3.1.92.0.0 i snow available at www.alice.org… I would ask that you download a copy and try it to see if you experience the same problems…

Please keep us posted…

All the best,
Don Slater

On Mar 14, 2014, at 12:16 PM, David Riley <riley at cs.uwlax.edu> wrote:

> Don,
> 
> We are running Alice 3.1.81 on in a classroom of Windows machines that share a common server supporting student accounts and have tightly restricted system access.  I had to work with our IT folk to get Alice installed, because none of the distributed install packages could be automated properly.  In the end I convinced them to place a copy of the uncompressed zip file on individual machines.
> 
> However, there still seem to be anomalies, and they are sufficiently erratic that different machines have different behaviors.  (all presumably loaded from the same unzipped file).  So the problems almost always involve the use of Sims characters.  Many of the machines will display the Sim avatars with a filled, black solid where a face should be - others have normal faces, and still others display misshapened face images.  I've also seen computers that exit Alice completely with no bug report screen by merely trying to add a Sim character to a scene.
> 
> Have you seen any of these behaviors before?  More importantly, do you know of any Windows configurations that might result in such things?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	dave riley
> 	U of WI - La Crosse