About

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

Documentation

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 [email protected] or [email protected]

Getting started

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.

Starting the server

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!

Starting the client

Telegram clients

Please follow the instructions in the usermanual

Non-telegram clients

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)

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