Greenfoot 2.4.2

[garethEds]

Afternoon,

Can anyone advise with Greenfoot? When running it on a locked down exam user account, version 2.4.2 doesn't see the inbuilt Java SDK. Version 3.1 does.

WJEC have sent out a circular telling us that 2.4.2 is the only supported version yet we are having trouble running it due to this Java issue.

We've set the JAVA_HOME environment variable but this hasn't worked.

Has anyone else had this issue and managed to solve it using locked down accounts?

Cheers

Gareth

[MichelleC]

I've also had that circular land on my desk and the exact same problem. Only I didn't try running the software in an unrestricted account first, so I just figured that version of Greenfoot didn't have the SDK version bundled (which I did think was odd as the website said it did) so I downloaded and installed this version separately: Java SE Development Kit 8 - Downloads Greenfoot is now working fine on our restricted accounts.

[CamelMan]

I've also had that circular land on my desk and the exact same problem. Only I didn't try running the software in an unrestricted account first, so I just figured that version of Greenfoot didn't have the SDK version bundled (which I did think was odd as the website said it did) so I downloaded and installed this version separately: Java SE Development Kit 8 - Downloads Greenfoot is now working fine on our restricted accounts.

 

Same here - download from Greenfoot seemed OK.

[garethEds]

Cheers everyone. It's just annoying that 2.4.2 doesn't work with the inbuilt jkd but 3.1 does.

 

Gareth