alice-teacher Trouble with Alice into Netbeaans using Plugin

[Eileen Wrigley]

Hello Don,

I am sorry that I didn't respond faster to your email but I have been on
vacation.

We have trouble on ALL of the machines at CCAC and my home computer for 2
of our projects that I have attached -- HokeyPokey and CardGame.  The
HokeyPokey has user-defined methods for Tortoise class.  The CardGame has
user-defined methods for the Scene class.  I am using Alice 3.4.0 at home
and we are using Alice 3.3.0 on all machines at CCAC. All of our other
Alice programs for this semester have converted fine.  I was able to give
students a NetBeans/Java version of both the HokeyPokey and CardGame but
they were disappointed that they couldn't convert their own projects since
they had spent a lot of time on scenery and objects.  Both of these
projects are used in multiple chapters and continued throughout the
semester.  I thought the problem was user-defined methods but some of our
user-defined method projects have worked.

NOTE: We began to have some conversion problems when we tried to switch
from Alice 3.2.5.0.0 to Alice 3.3.0 so we delayed the switch for a year at
CCAC and asked to have the Alice 3.2.5.0.0 archive kept on your site for
that year. My internet students who downloaded newer versions were the
first students to become aware of the issue.   All of the Alice projects
worked fine in Alice 3.2.5.0.0 but we were told that version wouldn't be
available for much longer so we moved to newer version.

Eileen Wrigley, Professor
Computer Information Technology
CCAC - South Campus
West Mifflin, PA  15122

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 8:03 PM Donald Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Terri and Eileen,
> I have been able to duplicate the problem, and the workaround I suggested
> does not work.
>
> Eileen is correct. The problem occurs when the Scene class has
> user-defined methods created for it. It is not a problem when other classes
> besides the Scene class has user-defined methods.
>
> Eileen, is this something you have seen before the latest release of Alice
> 3, with older plug-ins, or is this something introduced with the new
> plug-in?
>
> I am sure the dev team will look at this.
>
> Thank you for your patience.
>
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Project
>
> > On Nov 23, 2018, at 8:02 PM, Donald Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Eileen,
> > Points of clarification? The two projects had this behavior on all
> machines and students, or only on two machines / students?
> >
> > The new methods belonged to the Scene class, or to some of the Gallery
> class models...
> >
> > I think one work around we tried was to save the project in a new
> location under a new name... And I think I did it with a project with new
> methods, but I will go back and retest again... Also, I am working on a
> MacBook Pro...
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Don Slater
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Nov 22, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Eileen Wrigley <wrigley.eileen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We get this at CCAC on two of our projects but all of the rest of Alice
> projects convert just fine. The only thing unique about the projects is
> that we have written our own new methods in these two projects.  Do you
> have new methods in your project too?  Have not heard back from CMU yet
> about this.
> >>
> >> Eileen Wrigley
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Nov 21, 2018, at 10:09 PM, Kelly, Terri <kellyt at bishopireton.org>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Anyone seen this lately?  I was receiving this error a couple of years
> ago, i think - and it resolved with the new plugin or something.  Now it
> has reared its ugly head again and I cannot find any resources about
> options to fix it.
> >>>
> >>> When trying to bring the a3p file into NetBeans, it starts the
> process, but does not finish - and it gives me the error that the Folder is
> not empty.  The folder was empty, until the process started ... hmmmmm...
> >>>
> >>> I have removed and re-downloaded and installed the plug in - which did
> not fix the problem.
> >>>
> >>> Windows 10, Java 1.8, Alice 3.4
> >>>
> >>>
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