alice-teacher New Alice 2 and Alice 3 Versions

Wed Mar 21 08:53:42 EDT 2018

Eric/Don,

Based on what I've seen over the last two weeks...

The DirectPlay and the  "Press Win + G to see the game console" seem to be
a Windows 10 issue and it has to do with gaming. I installed Alice 2.5.4 on
about 20 Windows 10 PC's, (think I mentioned some of this earlier) and got
the DirectPlay notice on about half the machines. On one of the machines,
ignored the install on DirectPlay, and Alice ran with no problems. We have
been using the new versions of both Alice 2.x and 3.x and are not
experiencing any other noticeable issues. I have had the students create
new programs and also open previously created ones, all seems good so far.
Most of the students did not even notice the update.There is mo noticeable
difference. I can not pinpoint why it happened on only about half the
computers as all PC's are identical.

As for the Blue Box  "Press Win + G to see the game console" that is a
built-in (and safe) feature of Windows 10 for screen capture, primarily
used for gaming, but can be used to screen capture anything. Best guess is
that Windows 10 is identifying Alice 2.5.4 as a video game, probably
because of the DirectPlay connection, and so it launches the screen capture
to ask if you want to use it. If you just ignore the Blue Box, it goes away
without causing any issues.

If you send a copy of the worlds that are causing the issues, we'll run
them on our end and see what happens if you want some testing help.

Keith

Mr. Golebie

kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us

Computer Technology Teacher

Rm 201 & 202

Lincoln High School

Ellwood City Area School District

Ellwood City PA  16117

724-752-1591 x3202

Mr. Golebie

kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us

Computer Technology Teacher

Rm 201 & 202

Lincoln High School

Ellwood City Area School District

Ellwood City PA  16117

724-752-1591 x3202

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Don Slater <don at alice.org> wrote:

> Chris,
> Would you mind sending us the steps that was generating the fatal error…
> You can do this off-line, or send it to the group so that others may test
> it to see if they get the same result…
>
> Thank you,
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Project
>
> On Mar 20, 2018, at 9:45 PM, Romero, Chris <Chris-Romero at Redwoods.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Eric.
>
> I'm not trapped and was able to continue with the download. However, some
> other interesting artifacts developed. I would get a blue rectangle that
> would overlay on top of the Alice splash screen as Alice was loading
> stating "Press Win + G to see the game console". I never pressed the key
> combination and was able to work in Alice once it loaded.  This is
> suspicious given I downloaded Alice from the Alice.org <http://alice.org/>
>  site.
>
> In addition, Alice 2.5.4 would wedge on me with a fatal error. It happened
> 3 times and each time I was able to do the same steps in Alice 2.4.3
> without issue.
>
> I have subsequently removed the Alice 2.5.4 download and the extracted
> folder.
>
> I'm going to give others some time with it and see what develops.
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> Chris Romero MSCIT, BSEE
> Professor CIS
> College of the Redwoods
> (707) 476-4366
>
> ________________________________________
> From: alice-teachers [alice-teachers-bounces+chris-
> romero=redwoods.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] on behalf of Eric Brown [
> ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 1:16 PM
> To: Alice educators
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher New Alice 2 and Alice 3 Versions
>
> Chris,
>
> There is no functional reason that we know of that would require
> DirectPlay  We are looking into your issue and figuring out why it is
> requesting this.  Are you trapped and unable to start Alice 2 if you do not
> enable/install? Do the same machines have Alice 2.4.3 installed without
> this issue?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric
>
> Eric Brown
> Alice Project
> Carnegie Mellon University
> m: +1.718.986.9469
> e: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Romero, Chris <Chris-Romero at Redwoods.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Eric.
>
> Thanks so much for the continued support of Alice 2.x
>
> When launching the new 2.5.4 version, I am prompted to install DirectPlay
> A brief read on DirectPlay from Wikipedia has me concerned about its
> "deprecated" nature and the network connections it wants to make. Is it
> needed?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Chris
>
> Chris Romero MSCIT, BSEE
> Professor CIS
> College of the Redwoods
> (707) 476-4366
>
> ________________________________________
> From: alice-teachers [alice-teachers-bounces+chris-
> romero=redwoods.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] on behalf of Eric Brown [
> ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:18 PM
> To: Alice educators
> Subject: alice-teacher New Alice 2 and Alice 3 Versions
>
> Dear All,
>
> I wanted to let everyone know that we have released a new version of both
> Alice 2 and Alice 3.  Most critically the new Alice 2  version resolves our
> High Sierra problem allowing Alice 2 to function properly on the news Mac
> OS.  There are general performance and stability improvements for both
> version as well as some bug fixes that we think will make a lot of you and
> your students work a lot easier such as fixing the issue where shape
> objects were constantly reseting when you ran your program in Alice 3.
> Please keep telling us what you need and the problems you are finding so we
> can continue to make the systems better.  Thank you all again for all of
> your support and patience.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric
>
> Eric Brown
> Alice Project
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
> Alice 2:
>
> Major Updates
>
> - Mac OS High Sierra Supported - Fixed several issues to allow Alice 2 to
> work properly on newest OS
> - Java Update - transitioned to a newer version of Java and bundled
> necessary components to not require a separate Java download to run Alice
> - JOGL Update - transitioned to a newer version of JOGL for general
> performance and compatibility improvements
>
> UI Improvements
>
> - Fixed numerous spacing, layout, and display issues throughout the
> interface
>
> Functional Improvements
>
> - Fixed several procedures to behave as expected
> - Fixed several bugs that were causing the system to misrepresent errors
> - Associate a3p files and allow double click to open them
>
> Spanish Version Improvements
>
> - Fixed several bugs caused by localization errors including the ability
> to use the take a picture function
>
> Tutorial Improvements
>
> - Fixed a bug that was preventing people from progressing fully through
> Tutorial 4
>
> Alice 3:
>
> Improvements
>
> - Better memory management and new Heap Watcher to give users a chance to
> save their work ( Running Out of Memory)
> - Allow playback window to go behind other windows
> - Associate a3p files and allow double click to open them
> - Update to java 1.8
> - Added bell and wind to sound gallery
> - Promote keys and direction enums to be used as parameters, variables,
> and in comparisons
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> - Fix sim constructor problem that made some worlds unreadable
> - Fix spacing problems around arithmetic operators in generated Java
> - Fix Resource Manager to show all included resources
> - Prevent modifications to objects being lost after restarting Alice or
> when running the program
> - Restrict getModelAtMouseLocation to object listener to prevent errors in
> addMouseClickOnScreenListener
> - Correct inconsistencies in Count Loop index between Alice, Java side by
> side, and NetBeans
> - Fix cancel button on Quit then Save dialog that left Alice in a state
> where the user could neither save nor quit
> - Prevent possible deadlock when Alice throws multiple exceptions
> - Introduce key release event on lost window focus for correct user
> interaction
> - Update out of date links
> - Release sound resource correctly when player closes
> - Fix potential crash when exporting with audio
> - Removed a number of Red Queen triggers including:
>       •       Menu construction for object selection
>       •       NullPointerException in JZoomView.paintComponent
>       •       Logging details about program nodes
>       •       Possible NullPointerException during search
>
> Localization
> - Extended localizable parts of the interface to cover most of Alice
> - Updated several language resources
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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