EventInterceptor and MessageSendTree

> Dear all,
>  I've attached a little cool tool for intercepting Morphic events I
> just resurrected today, from the class comments:
>
> This morph is a button which, when pressed, begins listening to the
> hand's event stream.  When an even of the appropriate type is
> encountered, this morph intercepts it and traces the dispatch of the
> event using MessageSendTree, and opens a SendTreeExplorer on the
> results.  This is useful for debugging parts of the UI process which
> are otherwise difficult to trace. The eventType can be any of the
> Morphic event types, but #mouseUp, #mouseDown, and #keystroke are by
> far the most useful because they are the triggers for the majority of
> actual UI activity.
>
> This is a list of morphic events to try:
>
> #mouseDown
> #mouseMove
> #mouseUp
> #mouseOver
> #mouseEnter
> #mouseLeave
> #mouseLeaveDragging
>
> #keystroke
> #keyDown
> #keyUp
>
> #unknown
> #click
>
> To install it load first MessageSendTree. The original author is Jesse
> Welton http://jwelton.v-space.org/squeak/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hernán
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> Hi Hernán,
>
> Can you describe a situation when you needed this?
>
> Alexandre
>
>
> On 6 Dec 2009, at 04:25, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>  I've attached a little cool tool for intercepting Morphic events I
>> just resurrected today, from the class comments:
>>
>> This morph is a button which, when pressed, begins listening to the
>> hand's event stream.  When an even of the appropriate type is
>> encountered, this morph intercepts it and traces the dispatch of the
>> event using MessageSendTree, and opens a SendTreeExplorer on the
>> results.  This is useful for debugging parts of the UI process which
>> are otherwise difficult to trace. The eventType can be any of the
>> Morphic event types, but #mouseUp, #mouseDown, and #keystroke are by
>> far the most useful because they are the triggers for the majority of
>> actual UI activity.
>>
>> This is a list of morphic events to try:
>>
>> #mouseDown
>> #mouseMove
>> #mouseUp
>> #mouseOver
>> #mouseEnter
>> #mouseLeave
>> #mouseLeaveDragging
>>
>> #keystroke
>> #keyDown
>> #keyUp
>>
>> #unknown
>> #click
>>
>> To install it load first MessageSendTree. The original author is Jesse
>> Welton http://jwelton.v-space.org/squeak/
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hernán
>> <MessageSendTree-hfm.1.mcz><EventInterceptor-hfm.
>> 1.mcz>_______________________________________________
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> Hi Alex,
>  Of course, I'm using it to observe what's the best place to hook an
> interceptor (like a method wrapper) for a wayfinder tool I'm
> developing, i.e. modeling conceptual route knowledge and then
> replaying landmarked routes for learning purposes. Implementing a
> keylogger could be another interesting place to start using this tool
> as you may see all the possible methods to intercept a keystroke.
>  Concerning debugging I didn't experimented, but maybe a situation
> where a click freezes the image...IIRC there was a bug in Pharo trying
> to grab the world and then releasing the attached world... now is
> somewhat closed but is a possible scenario to see the stack trace.
> Cheers,
>
> Hernán
>
> 2009/12/6 Alexandre Bergel <[hidden email]>:
>> Hi Hernán,
>>
>> Can you describe a situation when you needed this?
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
>>
>> On 6 Dec 2009, at 04:25, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>  I've attached a little cool tool for intercepting Morphic events I
>>> just resurrected today, from the class comments:
>>>
>>> This morph is a button which, when pressed, begins listening to the
>>> hand's event stream.  When an even of the appropriate type is
>>> encountered, this morph intercepts it and traces the dispatch of the
>>> event using MessageSendTree, and opens a SendTreeExplorer on the
>>> results.  This is useful for debugging parts of the UI process which
>>> are otherwise difficult to trace. The eventType can be any of the
>>> Morphic event types, but #mouseUp, #mouseDown, and #keystroke are by
>>> far the most useful because they are the triggers for the majority  
>>> of
>>> actual UI activity.
>>>
>>> This is a list of morphic events to try:
>>>
>>> #mouseDown
>>> #mouseMove
>>> #mouseUp
>>> #mouseOver
>>> #mouseEnter
>>> #mouseLeave
>>> #mouseLeaveDragging
>>>
>>> #keystroke
>>> #keyDown
>>> #keyUp
>>>
>>> #unknown
>>> #click
>>>
>>> To install it load first MessageSendTree. The original author is  
>>> Jesse
>>> Welton http://jwelton.v-space.org/squeak/
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Hernán
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>>> 1.mcz>_______________________________________________
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>> Alexandre Bergel  http://www.bergel.eu
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> Hi Alex,
>  Of course, I'm using it to observe what's the best place to hook an
> interceptor (like a method wrapper) for a wayfinder tool I'm
> developing, i.e. modeling conceptual route knowledge and then
> replaying landmarked routes for learning purposes. Implementing a
> keylogger could be another interesting place to start using this tool
> as you may see all the possible methods to intercept a keystroke.
>  Concerning debugging I didn't experimented, but maybe a situation
> where a click freezes the image...IIRC there was a bug in Pharo trying
> to grab the world and then releasing the attached world... now is
> somewhat closed but is a possible scenario to see the stack trace.
> Cheers,
>
> Hernán
>
> 2009/12/6 Alexandre Bergel <[hidden email]>:
>> Hi Hernán,
>>
>> Can you describe a situation when you needed this?
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
>>
>> On 6 Dec 2009, at 04:25, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>  I've attached a little cool tool for intercepting Morphic events I
>>> just resurrected today, from the class comments:
>>>
>>> This morph is a button which, when pressed, begins listening to the
>>> hand's event stream.  When an even of the appropriate type is
>>> encountered, this morph intercepts it and traces the dispatch of the
>>> event using MessageSendTree, and opens a SendTreeExplorer on the
>>> results.  This is useful for debugging parts of the UI process which
>>> are otherwise difficult to trace. The eventType can be any of the
>>> Morphic event types, but #mouseUp, #mouseDown, and #keystroke are by
>>> far the most useful because they are the triggers for the majority of
>>> actual UI activity.
>>>
>>> This is a list of morphic events to try:
>>>
>>> #mouseDown
>>> #mouseMove
>>> #mouseUp
>>> #mouseOver
>>> #mouseEnter
>>> #mouseLeave
>>> #mouseLeaveDragging
>>>
>>> #keystroke
>>> #keyDown
>>> #keyUp
>>>
>>> #unknown
>>> #click
>>>
>>> To install it load first MessageSendTree. The original author is Jesse
>>> Welton http://jwelton.v-space.org/squeak/
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Hernán
>>> <MessageSendTree-hfm.1.mcz><EventInterceptor-hfm.
>>> 1.mcz>_______________________________________________
>>> Pharo-project mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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>> Alexandre Bergel  http://www.bergel.eu
>> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
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> Looks good! Do you visualize those landmarked routes?
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
>
>
> On 7 Dec 2009, at 18:25, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>  Of course, I'm using it to observe what's the best place to hook an
>> interceptor (like a method wrapper) for a wayfinder tool I'm
>> developing, i.e. modeling conceptual route knowledge and then
>> replaying landmarked routes for learning purposes. Implementing a
>> keylogger could be another interesting place to start using this tool
>> as you may see all the possible methods to intercept a keystroke.
>>  Concerning debugging I didn't experimented, but maybe a situation
>> where a click freezes the image...IIRC there was a bug in Pharo trying
>> to grab the world and then releasing the attached world... now is
>> somewhat closed but is a possible scenario to see the stack trace.
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hernán
>>
>> 2009/12/6 Alexandre Bergel <[hidden email]>:
>>> Hi Hernán,
>>>
>>> Can you describe a situation when you needed this?
>>>
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 Dec 2009, at 04:25, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>  I've attached a little cool tool for intercepting Morphic events I
>>>> just resurrected today, from the class comments:
>>>>
>>>> This morph is a button which, when pressed, begins listening to the
>>>> hand's event stream.  When an even of the appropriate type is
>>>> encountered, this morph intercepts it and traces the dispatch of the
>>>> event using MessageSendTree, and opens a SendTreeExplorer on the
>>>> results.  This is useful for debugging parts of the UI process which
>>>> are otherwise difficult to trace. The eventType can be any of the
>>>> Morphic event types, but #mouseUp, #mouseDown, and #keystroke are by
>>>> far the most useful because they are the triggers for the majority
>>>> of
>>>> actual UI activity.
>>>>
>>>> This is a list of morphic events to try:
>>>>
>>>> #mouseDown
>>>> #mouseMove
>>>> #mouseUp
>>>> #mouseOver
>>>> #mouseEnter
>>>> #mouseLeave
>>>> #mouseLeaveDragging
>>>>
>>>> #keystroke
>>>> #keyDown
>>>> #keyUp
>>>>
>>>> #unknown
>>>> #click
>>>>
>>>> To install it load first MessageSendTree. The original author is
>>>> Jesse
>>>> Welton http://jwelton.v-space.org/squeak/
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Hernán
>>>> <MessageSendTree-hfm.1.mcz><EventInterceptor-hfm.
>>>> 1.mcz>_______________________________________________
>>>> Pharo-project mailing list
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>>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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>>> Alexandre Bergel  http://www.bergel.eu
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