This is the new (Sep. 2023) version of the chattool.
Some of the new features are:
- Telegram Participants can use the Telegram messenger app to connect to the chattool server
- Remote admin Experimenters can monitor experiments remotely, using Telegram messenger
- WYSIWYG The chattool includes a "What You See Is What You Get, ie. character by character interface which is useful for programming incremental interventions
There is a usermanual on how to use the software (non-programming)
The webpage of the chattool is at: https://dialoguetoolkit.github.io/chattool/
The programming documentation is at: https://dialoguetoolkit.github.io/docs/
If you have any questions, please email millsgjm@gmail.com or g.mills@kingston.ac.uk
See also https://gjmills.github.io/
The project should run "out of the box" in netbeans (as a Maven project).
The project contains a pom.xml file that contains a list of all the dependencies.
To start the server, use java -jar "chattool.jar SERVER
The server will listen for incoming connections on port 20000
To change this, use java -jar "chattool.jar SERVER %PORTNUMBER% where %PORTNUMBER% is the portnumber
it is advisable to read through the "quick start" sections in the user manual before programming the chattool!
Please follow the instructions in the usermanual
To start a client from the commandline you need to specify the IP address and port number to connect to, e.g.
java -jar "chattool.jar" CLIENT localhost 20000
which would connect to localhost (the local machine) on port 20000
It is also possible to start clients (locally) from the server GUI by selecting the button "Additional Client" (please see the user manual how to do this)