boont
02-02-2007, 04:19 PM
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First off, good work folks! I thought that my class would be learning java or C++ but Alice is a lot of fun. I'm not sure how to jump from Alice to either of the above languages, though that may become clear as we go.
So, I'm one of those PITAes... I'm running the software on Slackware 11, kernel 2.6.18.6 and there are issues (it does run though!). Some are minor, others prevent me from following along with the class:
Object(s) change color at random. Sometimes not at all. Seen with bunny.
Add rabbit. When using the arrows to move the camera, rabbit "slips" around.
Save nag appeared as I was dragging a tile. Clicked save. Drag canceled but unable to drag thereafter. Error was "..unable to initiate drag.." or something close.
Cannot disable control structure tiles, only -- so far -- the method tiles.
"create new method" button spawns a pop up name input box. Unable to type in box. Middle-click paste works. Once, I managed to get it working by :confused: opening kedit and typing text for pasting into box. Using alt-tab to switch apps I noticed that a couple of chars from kedit had |somehow| made it into the method naming box. Backspace and typing now worked, that time only. Naming a new method required another app switch. After a reboot, even that kludge failed to work. :eek:
Um, that's what I've seen so far. I've only been dragging for about a week. I would like to continue to use Slackware in class but I know the 'nix version is PoC. What differences between the win and lin versions would cause these issues? I'm going to look at the source but I'm pretty sure I'll get lost. I would have searched the bug db, but she's down. The few results returned searching "linux" on the forum did not seem applicable. Sorry for the length. If you need more info let me know. Thx!
Boont
First off, good work folks! I thought that my class would be learning java or C++ but Alice is a lot of fun. I'm not sure how to jump from Alice to either of the above languages, though that may become clear as we go.
So, I'm one of those PITAes... I'm running the software on Slackware 11, kernel 2.6.18.6 and there are issues (it does run though!). Some are minor, others prevent me from following along with the class:
Object(s) change color at random. Sometimes not at all. Seen with bunny.
Add rabbit. When using the arrows to move the camera, rabbit "slips" around.
Save nag appeared as I was dragging a tile. Clicked save. Drag canceled but unable to drag thereafter. Error was "..unable to initiate drag.." or something close.
Cannot disable control structure tiles, only -- so far -- the method tiles.
"create new method" button spawns a pop up name input box. Unable to type in box. Middle-click paste works. Once, I managed to get it working by :confused: opening kedit and typing text for pasting into box. Using alt-tab to switch apps I noticed that a couple of chars from kedit had |somehow| made it into the method naming box. Backspace and typing now worked, that time only. Naming a new method required another app switch. After a reboot, even that kludge failed to work. :eek:
Um, that's what I've seen so far. I've only been dragging for about a week. I would like to continue to use Slackware in class but I know the 'nix version is PoC. What differences between the win and lin versions would cause these issues? I'm going to look at the source but I'm pretty sure I'll get lost. I would have searched the bug db, but she's down. The few results returned searching "linux" on the forum did not seem applicable. Sorry for the length. If you need more info let me know. Thx!
Boont