From vanderhyde at sxu.edu  Sat Feb 22 19:00:14 2025
From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:14 +0000
Subject: alice-teacher Apple silicon Mac version of Alice Player doesn't work
Message-ID: <3CE2F802-16CC-4178-8E48-B2A04FE9AFFF@sxu.edu>

I can run the Alice Player on my Mac, but I can?t open any files.

I checked the Unity project for the Alice Player to see what was going on. The culprit is the Standalone File Browser package that is used. It doesn?t have an Apple silicon version, only an Intel version.

Is there any way to open files in the Mac version of the Alice Player? Or do you have to go through the file chooser dialog that doesn?t work?

James
?
James Vanderhyde
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Saint Xavier University
3700 W. 103rd St.
Chicago, IL 60655
773-298-3454
vanderhyde at sxu.edu
sxu.edu

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From dabeshou at andrew.cmu.edu  Sat Feb 22 22:36:23 2025
From: dabeshou at andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Abeshouse)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:36:23 -0500
Subject: alice-teacher Apple silicon Mac version of Alice Player doesn't
 work
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James,

I had thought this was only a problem on the Mac silicon if you did not install Rosetta, but it seems my optimism was misplaced.
I don?t have a fix for you yet, but I can offer a work around.

You can edit the recent worlds list and the next time the player starts you can click to open, bypassing the dialog.
It can be found in:
'/Users/{USERNAME}/Library/Application Support/org.alice.player/recentWorlds.txt?
Add the full path to a world on each line.

I have opened a bug on GitHub - https://github.com/TheAliceProject/alice-unity-player/issues/259

Daniel Abeshouse

Alice Project
Carnegie Mellon University




> On Feb 22, 2025, at 7:00?PM, Vanderhyde, James <vanderhyde at sxu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I can run the Alice Player on my Mac, but I can?t open any files.
> 
> I checked the Unity project for the Alice Player to see what was going on. The culprit is the Standalone File Browser package that is used. It doesn?t have an Apple silicon version, only an Intel version.
> 
> Is there any way to open files in the Mac version of the Alice Player? Or do you have to go through the file chooser dialog that doesn?t work?
> 
> James
> ?
> James Vanderhyde
> Associate Professor
> Computer Science
> Saint Xavier University
> 3700 W. 103rd St.
> Chicago, IL 60655
> 773-298-3454
> vanderhyde at sxu.edu
> sxu.edu
> 
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From vanderhyde at sxu.edu  Mon Feb 24 09:53:53 2025
From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:53:53 +0000
Subject: alice-teacher Apple silicon Mac version of Alice Player doesn't
 work
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 <CAD6BA8A-BE13-471E-971C-CFA093A87474@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Daniel, thank you so much. That will be helpful. Actually I did manage to fix it by building a Mac silicon version of StandaloneFileBrowser bundle using Xcode (from https://github.com/gkngkc/UnityStandaloneFileBrowser). This seems to be all that is needed.

James
?
James Vanderhyde
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Saint Xavier University
3700 W. 103rd St.
Chicago, IL 60655
773-298-3454
vanderhyde at sxu.edu
sxu.edu

On Feb 22, 2025, at 9:36?PM, Daniel Abeshouse <dabeshou at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:


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James,

I had thought this was only a problem on the Mac silicon if you did not install Rosetta, but it seems my optimism was misplaced.
I don?t have a fix for you yet, but I can offer a work around.

You can edit the recent worlds list and the next time the player starts you can click to open, bypassing the dialog.
It can be found in:
'/Users/{USERNAME}/Library/Application Support/org.alice.player/recentWorlds.txt?
Add the full path to a world on each line.

I have opened a bug on GitHub - https://github.com/TheAliceProject/alice-unity-player/issues/259

Daniel Abeshouse

Alice Project
Carnegie Mellon University




On Feb 22, 2025, at 7:00?PM, Vanderhyde, James <vanderhyde at sxu.edu> wrote:

I can run the Alice Player on my Mac, but I can?t open any files.

I checked the Unity project for the Alice Player to see what was going on. The culprit is the Standalone File Browser package that is used. It doesn?t have an Apple silicon version, only an Intel version.

Is there any way to open files in the Mac version of the Alice Player? Or do you have to go through the file chooser dialog that doesn?t work?

James
?
James Vanderhyde
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Saint Xavier University
3700 W. 103rd St.
Chicago, IL 60655
773-298-3454
vanderhyde at sxu.edu
sxu.edu

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