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Alice 2 Release Notes

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Alice 2.3.4 Release (May 7, 2013)

 

Feature modifications

 

  • Restored Take Picture feature. 
  • Restored Screen Capture tab from Preferences menu.
  • When saving an object, and adding it to the Alice Gallery, a thumbnail of the saved object correctly displays in the Gallery 

 

Bug Fixes

 

  • Saving objects now works correctly 
  • Export Code for Printing menu item now prints any lists in a world 
  • The print control tile now correctly prints user input text to console (not "none")
  • The Mac version correctly handles graphics with transparent elements in the images (for example, the wings of the faeries no longer have a black box around them) 

 

 

Alice 2.3.3 Release (March 4, 2013)

 

Feature modifications

 

  • Replaced function "int(a) as String" with "int(a)". 
  • Removed Take Picture feature. 
  • Removed Screen Capture tab from Preferences menu. 
  • Added a menu item to view Alice license. 
  • Change the output text of "Print" statements. 
  • Removed "Export As A Web Page" feature. 

 

Bug Fixes

 

  • Fixed loading world or models with Spanish characters 
  • Fixed layout of start up window. 
  • Fixed the start up "CastExceptionError". 
  • Fixed "Null pointer exception" error thrown by the Color class. 
  • Alice creates model's thumbnail when saving model 
  • Fixed a bug that was caused while using keyboard keys to move an object that is passed in as variable 
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing Alice from loading the Spanish default world 
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing Alice from saving the preferences.xml file

 

 

 

Alice 2.3 Release (August 5, 2012)

 

Spanish Language

Alice 2.3 has been released with a Spanish language option! To select a Spanish display, open the Edit/Preferences menu and on the General tab, select Spanish as the Display Language.

Then, restart Alice. After restarting, Alice menu items, methods, functions, and property names will be displayed in Spanish.

 

Alice Spanish Interface

 

The original installation files for Alice 2.3 contain only the English language gallery. (See instructions below on how to install the Spanish gallery.)

Once the Spanish gallery is installed, the Alice objects and subparts will be displayed in Spanish.

 

Alice 2.3 Spanish Gallery

Alice 2.3 Spanish Thumbnails

Alice 2.3 Spanish Subparts

 

 

Worlds created and saved under one language setting may be opened and will run under the other language setting. However, the object names and subparts will remain in the language in which the world was originally created.

 

Alice Updates and Gallery Installation now from within Alice.

Alice 2.3 now allows users to update to new releases of Alice 2.x, and to install another language gallery from within Alice. Users no longer have to do a compete download and re-installation of Alice 2 with every new bug fix and / or system update.

From the Help menu, select the Update Software menu item.

 

Alice 2.3 Update Menu

 

A dialog box will appear. If there are new updates for the Alice software available, the option to download will be checked. This is also where download for automatic installation of the English and / or the Spanish gallery is available. There are new models for Alice 2 being developed, and when they become available, download the appropriate gallery.

 

Alice 2.3 Update Available

 

Alice will not automatically send a notification when updates are available. You may wish to check the Software Updates menu periodically, watch the Alice website (www.alice.org), or watch for notifications from the Alice Educators Mailing List and the Alice Facebook page.

 

When the Update button is clicked, Alice will connect to the download servers to begin the download and installation. The computer must be connected to the internet for automatic updates.

 

Alice 2.3 Updating Software

 

When the update is complete, Alice should be restarted.

 

Alice 2.3 Restart

 

NoteIt may be good practice after a complete download and installation of Alice 2.3 and subsequent versions, to run the Update Software option to make sure that you have the most current version of the Alice .jar file.

 

Bug Fixes

 

The following bugs were fixed in this release. 

  • Added a Spanish gallery which is available for download from within Alice 2.3 through the Help/Update menu.
  • Created new Splash screen and About Alice screen images.
  • Change the encoding method for Alice to allow Alice to correctly display an extended character set.
  • Fixed a missing function tag.
  • Changed the name-checking method to allow for accents and other characters used in Spanish and other languages.
  • Created a language pack (All the required files for translating Alice to other natural languages).

 

As always, please let us know of any bugs or problems you encounter. You may contact us at alice-help.

 

Copyright

 

Go to Alice.org home page

 

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