Cannot drag and drop

[beetledad]

Hey!

While Alice seems to run fine on my computer, playing movies and responding happily to my mouse clicks, it refused to let me drag and drop anything. When I tried, absolutely nothing happened. But on my child's computer, it worked perfectly. That struck me as odd, as my computer has much more horsepower :)

Anyway, after poking around a bit, I finally figured out that the problem is that I had my mouse buttons switched (ie left handed mouse). Putting them back to a right handed mouse fixed the problem. I can now drag and drop to my heart's content.

Thanks
Beetledad

[josborne]

I'm running Vista and my wife did something unknown to the computer while on the Internet. I've fixed that but now Alice won't let me drag and drop instructions. Interestingly, I can drag and drop Control Structures (Do in order, etc) but cannot drop instructions into them.

[josborne]

I've since learned that if I start Alice with Run As Administrator that it will let me drag and drop. This is consistent with the change I made to my computer. I used to have Administrator priveleges but I changed that and made a separate Admin account after the problems. So now, why would Alice need Administrator privileges to run on Vista?

[josborne]

I run two monitors. I just starting pushing the Alice window into the second monitor. I did not push it over while I was debugging this issue but now that I thought I had it nailed, I did and guess what! Alice won't drag and drop in the second monitor. It will in the first but not in the second.

To sum it up, I am running Alice now by using the first monitor and admin privileges, so the urgency has fallen. However, the curiousity level is rising. I sure hope someone knowledgeable can comment.

[sopranovcm]

I have a classroom of 30 computers. Periodically a computer will stop letting the student drop and drag. At first I thought it was a setting on that computer because it happened in 2 different class periods to the same machine. However, I moved the affected student to another machine and it happened again. Now I am wondering if the student is accidentally doing something or if has something to do with their computer accounts. I can not change any privileges for anyone so I hope that is not the answer.