TRecordableRouter?

> Hi everyone,
>
> First, let me introduce myself. I am working on a "Google Summer of
> Code" project using Croquet. Our goal is to use Croquet to record and
> play back Smalltalk programming sessions - for example, to use in
> demonstrating a concept for learners.
>
> I have been working on, well, first, understanding how Croquet works;
> but after that, recording Croquet messages sent to an Island, with the
> thought that, along with an initial island snapshot, these should be
> sufficient for a sort of simple playback. My tack has been to try to
> log messages coming to a single Controller.
>
> In working on this today, I ran across TRecordableRouter and
> TRecordableMessageData. Does anyone here know more about these? Are
> these a foray into the same sort of area (albeit one at the router
> level)? From poking around, I suspect they may less about whole-island
> recording and more about recording the actions of, say, an avatar; but
> they looked good to understand.
>
> (Of course, any more general advice about recording would also be
> appreciated!)
>
> Regards,
> Benjamin Schroeder

> Your brief description sounds very much like something we are  
> working on now.  We need a way to capture student actions in a  
> Croquet space.  We thought, like you, that since every event on a  
> Croquet island is sent as an event to that island there must be a  
> way to log all these messages and then play them back on a saved  
> copy of that same island.  We used the same approach as we had with  
> the TRecordableRouter, but instead of focusing on a single avatar,  
> we capture most of the events sent to the island.  This seems to  
> work very well, except if new objects are ever created.  We then  
> have problems making sure that they get the correct IDs.  This is  
> probably an artifact of how we are un-pickling the messages we log,  
> but we haven't quite gotten past the problem.