On 13 Nov 2007, at 14:37, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Cezary Kaliszyk wrote:
I would like to inquire about an extension that would allow the other
users to see the real text that the other user is typing.
...
Does any of the extensions do this or is anyone working on this
thing?
We've had discussions about this before, and more recently I know of
one
client author who has worked on such an extension as a special
project.
That would be me, wouldn't it? :)
I did this recently for someone to use in a lab context to study how
people type, and just did the really stupid thing of transmitting the
full contents of the input buffer every X milliseconds (as long as
they'd changed). It does the job though.
Perhaps he will post to the list about how he implemented this kind of
character-by-character communication (note: it's probably verbose
and we
probably would not recommend it for normal usage).
Yes, I think that's a fair assessment :)
/K
