Alice ran twice, and now wont start

[Tyke91]

I need to use the program "Alice" for my computer science class at school. I don't have the option of running it in windows as there are no longer any windows computers in my home (that genuine advantage thing finally sent my family over the edge and now we use ubuntu :D ).

Basically, i downloaded and unpacked the program. The only instructions in the readme were to run the file "Alice-run" which worked twice.

on a third try however, it didn't start. when i ran it in a terminal, i got this response

attempting to register mp3 capability...
Registered succesfully
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index
at javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter.convertRowIndexToMode l(DefaultRowSorter.java:497)
at sun.swing.FilePane$SortableListModel.getElementAt( FilePane.java:525)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicListUI.updateLayoutSta te(BasicListUI.java:1337)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicListUI.maybeUpdateLayo utState(BasicListUI.java:1288)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicListUI.getCellBounds(B asicListUI.java:929)
at javax.swing.JList.getCellBounds(JList.java:1600)
at javax.swing.JList.ensureIndexIsVisible(JList.java: 1116)
at sun.swing.FilePane.ensureIndexIsVisible(FilePane.j ava:1514)
at sun.swing.FilePane.doDirectoryChanged(FilePane.jav a:1440)
at sun.swing.FilePane.propertyChange(FilePane.java:14 87)
at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChang e(PropertyChangeSupport.java:339)
at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChang e(PropertyChangeSupport.java:276)
at java.awt.Component.firePropertyChange(Component.ja va:7865)
at javax.swing.JFileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(JFile Chooser.java:568)
at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringToo l.worldsDirectoryChanged(AuthoringTool.java:478)
at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringToo l.dialogInit(AuthoringTool.java:631)
at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringToo l.<init>(AuthoringTool.java:413)
at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main( JAlice.java:131)



the attempting to register mp3 capability...
Registered succesfully is normal, the rest is not.

what's going on? :confused::confused:

[pmasiar]

you could link to "alice" you downloaded, so we know what are you using. Alice is rather popular with Google :-)

[Tyke91]

sorry, i thought alice was more popular than it is :)

http://www.alice.org/downloads/authoringtool/

[pmasiar]

I can see PC and Mac versions only. Which one did you used? Do you use some emulators? Or from sources? Which version?

Maybe for others it is obvious, but my ESP is cloudy tonight. :-)

[Tyke91]

lol... there's a link that says "info for linux"

i clicked it and it took me to a download page

i need this program for class and only have linux... wondering if i should now buy a mac for school :P

[pmasiar]

Oh! it was so tiny I missed it.

That page says:
"This release of Alice for Linux is more a proof-of-concept than an official release. There are lots of bugs which we are working to fix...."

"We have tested this out on Fedora Core 5 and a custom version of Fedora Core 2. "

So my best bet would be to get Fedora Core 2, and try it there. Report a bug!

[Tyke91]

heh... ill try

gunna be hard not to work on ubuntu tho... still love this os :lolflag:

[Rorke]

I'd be interested in your progress. My kids love 'Alice' and I recently binned Windows for Ubuntu. Took me 2 weeks to iron out things, and I still run a VirtualBox - but if you do get it running on Ubuntu, please post here :-)
Thanks