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#1 2007-04-18 17:49:07

MisterWells
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Registered: 2007-04-17
Posts: 4

trouble importing new costumes

I've had some problems bringing in new costumes for existing sprites on some of the imacs in my computer lab. 

I can work around it by importing a new sprite, then dragging the costume back on to an existing sprite, but that gets a bit hard to explain to my students.  Any troubleshooting suggestions?

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#2 2007-04-19 21:32:50

andresmh
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Registered: 2007-03-05
Posts: 1000+

Re: trouble importing new costumes

Where are you bringing the costumes from? Are you click on the import button? Do you get an error?


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#3 2007-04-20 09:29:18

MisterWells
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Registered: 2007-04-17
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Re: trouble importing new costumes

The trouble happens on some computers when students try to import a new costume for a sprte using the "import" button. No error message, just nothing happens.....

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#4 2007-04-27 11:34:43

johnm
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Registered: 2007-03-08
Posts: 100+

Re: trouble importing new costumes

Strange problem... If you have a few moments for an experiment the next time this happens, I wonder if you could save the student's project, close and re-open Scratch on that computer, and try the import button again? It would be useful to know if it happens all the time on a given a computer or if something the student had done since starting Scratch triggers the problem. For example, navigating to a folder on a file server or to a locked or hidden folder on the local disk could explain the problem. (The "import costume" dialog tries to return the folder last used. If the last folder were on a network drive and that drive is no longer available that could explain it.) I haven't seen this problem myself so I'm just guessing. More data would be very welcome.

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