Story Telling Alice & W7 Rights

[davebutleruk]

Yes I know Story Telling Alice is old software - but it does just what we want.

Or it did until we moved to Windows 7.

 

Would really appreciate any suggestions as to solution or workaround that does not require old pupils having admin rights

 

At the moment will only run with full Admin rights (either via run as or logged on as) - clearly not a place I want to be.

 

Have read many forums - tried various permission changes on folders et al - but only runs to a point - changes screen colour - shows as running process in task Manager - then give this Java error

 

Alice version: Storytelling Alice 10/01/2007

os.name: Windows NT (unknown)

os.version: 6.1

os.arch: x86

java.vm.name:Java HotSpot™ Client VM

java.vm.version: 1.5.0_05-b05

user.dir: C:\StorytellingAlice\Required

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 4

at java.util.Vector.get(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicDirectoryModel.getElementAt(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicListUI.updateLayoutState(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicListUI.maybeUpdateLayoutState(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicListUI.getCellBounds(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.JList.getCellBounds(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.JList.ensureIndexIsVisible(Unknown Source)

at sun.swing.FilePane.ensureIndexIsVisible(Unknown Source)

at sun.swing.FilePane.doDirectoryChanged(Unknown Source)

at sun.swing.FilePane.propertyChange(Unknown Source)

at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(Unknown Source)

at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.Component.firePropertyChange(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.JFileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(Unknown Source)

at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.dialog.ExportCodeForPrintingContentPane.(ExportCodeForPrintingContentPane.java:147)

at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.dialogInit(AuthoringTool.java:603)

at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.AuthoringTool.(AuthoringTool.java:385)

at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main(JAlice.java:132)

 

Our PCs W 7 Pro 64 bit

Alice exe from alice.org

[LeMarchand]

Not familiar with the software, but will it run in Virtual XP Mode? (Though this does add further complications for storing work).

[davebutleruk]

Virtual PC is on my list of next things to try (but trying to avoid)

 

Have tried in various XP modes in compatability options

Edited November 16, 2012 by davebutleruk