AspectS (on SqueakMap) might be useful for instrumenting applications
to capture event data.

Joshua

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:54:07AM -0700, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2003 06:34 am, Ned Konz wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2003 04:41 am, Bilal Ahmed wrote:
> > > Is anyone aware of ways to evaluate user interfaces and do
> > > ethnographic data collection in Squeak? I would ideally like to
> > > give an application to a user and somehow collect data on how the
> > > user found his/her way around the application (things like
> > > reaction times, etc).
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > You'd have to instrument your application.
> 
> Though we do have the EventRecorder, which grabs raw mouse/keyboard 
> events.
> 
> If you've written the application, you can write a stream of 
> timestamps and event descriptions when you present different parts of 
> the UI to the user.
> 
> You can install a global keyboard and/or mouse listener too, and that 
> listener will get to look at copies of all the events.
> 
> So you could do:
> 
> ActiveHand addKeyboardListener: someObject.
> ActiveHand addMouseListener: someObject.
> 
> And then someObject would be sent #handleListenEvent: for every mouse 
> and keyboard event.
> 
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> Ned Konz
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