Habanero 1.0 supports the Capture of Habanero collaborative sessions as well as the Replay of those sessions in a single-user and stand-alone mode. This paper describes the different functionality inherent to the Habanero 1.0 Capture and Replay mechanisms. First, we present the process to capture a live session, then the Replay Editor is discussed.

While you are collaborating in an Habanero session, you have the possibility to keep track of your collaborators as well as any collaborative actions they will perform in the session's applications. Capturing a session is a non-collaborative process done on your local machine. If several participants want to capture a same session, there are several ways to do so. Either anyone records the session at his/her own pace on his/her local machine; or only some of them record the session and then make the data available to anyone interested in (via files transfer protocol).

Recording a session:

Remember that you can only record a live session you are currently in. The following are the different steps to record a session:

• To activate the record process, select the "Record Session" option in the "Session" menu from the menu bar, or click in the "movie clipper" icon from the toolbar.
• This action will pop up a dialog box for confirming you want to start the record process.

All the captured data are stored in a specific directory named after the session name. You can enter another directory name if you desire (remember no spaces allowed).

If the given directory exists already and contains an archived session, a deletion box will ask you to agree to delete the old archived data. In the negative case, you have to restart the record process from the previous step and enter a new directory name to archive the current session.

• Now, your local record process is up, and any participants' moves are monitored. This is shown in any participant's screen by displaying a "REC" icon in the bottom left corner of the foot banner of each session's tool .

Stopping the Record process

To end the Record process:

• Select the "Stop Recording" option in the "Session" menu from the menu bar, or click in the "movie clipper" icon from the toolbar.
• This action will pop up a dialog box for confirming you want to end the record process.
• If you were the only one recording the session, then any participants will be aware that their moves are not anymore monitored because the "REC" icon displayed in the bottom left corner of the foot banner of any session's tool will return to its initial state (i.e. the Habanero icon).

Once the Record process is over, you are able to continue to capture the session in another archived directory by starting a new Record process. But be sure to not override the data you just record by forgetting to change the archived directory name.

The Replay Editor is part of the Habanero 1.0 package as a single user and a stand-alone application.

In this section, we describe how to launch the Replay Editor, then we detail the different parts of the editor.

Launching the Replay Editor:

Asking for the archived session to be replayed:

First, the Replay Editor requests you to select the archived session you want to replay by opening a file dialog box. This name is mandatory, and if you enter other directory names than the one containing an archived session, the Editor will end right there. The Replay Editor 1.0 supports only the replay of one archived session at a time, if you desire to replay few sessions, you need to run several instances of the Replay Editor.

Now, you have enter a correct archived session's name, the system is loading all the information concerning the session to-be-replayed. This process can take some time, upon to the length of the recorded session (i.e. the amount of the archived data). A status window is displayed during all the loading process to let you know the system is still working on your request.

Replay Editor overview:

The Replay Editor is then displayed and contains all the information concerning the archived session such as the collaborators' list, the tools' list, the collaborative actions performed, the time scales, etc.

The following screen shot presents the Replay Editor descriptive view of the content of a captured session, in terms of people, tools, actions and time.

As shown above, the Replay Editor window forms a sort of table that represents all the collaborative actions performed according to their time of occurrence, their tools' target, and their initiators. To describe the Editor, we will decompose it into five areas that will be detailed in the next sections:

• The north panel displays the time scales of the captured session.
• The west panel lists the tools that were up during the capture of the session.
• The east panel lists the participants who attended the session while it was monitored.
• The central panel displays the content of a captured session: actions monitored during the record process.
• Finally, the south panel is the modes panel that allows you to switch between the Replay Editor modes such as Replay, Quit, etc; as well as to access the specific functions inherent to each mode.

Time area:

The Time area displays two time scales. The first one represents the time scale of the whole archived session. Where as the one below corresponds to the period of time displayed in the Actions area.

Both time scales display their time ranges on their corners. You can also slide the time on both time scales in order to browse different parts of the archived session. Sliding the time on time scales will position the Actions area at a specific moment during the session.

Tools area:

The Tools area contains all the tools that were up during the capture of the session. The tools' list represents the entry column of the table. Consequently, each line of the Actions area is associated to a tool; and actions on a line belong to this specific tool.

Each tool is viewed by its corresponding icon. However the first icon, the Habanero logo, does not represent a specific tool but the entire session in order to display in the Actions area the collaborative actions that occur at the session level (such as the participants' joining/leaving actions and the creation/deletion of tools).

As mentioned earlier, the tools' list regroups all the tools that were used at a time during the captured session. To show that a tool is not present at a certain moment (not been opened yet or already been closed), the background of its associated line in the Actions area is grayed out.

Selecting a tool icon allows you to "Bring to Front" or to "Put to back" the corresponding application's window as well as "Hide" or "Show" it.

Participants area:

The Participants area regroups all the collaborators that attended part or the entire captured session. This list represents the legend of the table: a unique pictogram (shape/color) is associated to each participant. This pictogram will appear in the Actions area each time he/she performed a collaborative action.

As mentioned above, this list regroups anyone who ever attended the captured session. The participants' leaving/joining actions will be represented in the Actions list on the first line (i.e. the session line).

Each participant is listed either by his/her name or his/her machine name and listening port number. To toggle the list between these two attributes, click on any name or machine name.

Actions area:

The Actions area displays the content of the captured session. Each line is associated to a tool (from the Tools area) and contains all the collaborative actions performed in the specific tool. These actions are displayed by a pictogram, shaped and colored according to their originator. The Participants area legends the association between a person and his/her pictogram. The actions are also sorted horizontally by their time of occurrence upon the time scales.

Modes area:

The Modes area contains the Replay Editor modes: Replay mode, Edit mode, Restart mode and Quit mode. In the Habanero 1.0 version, only the Replay and Quit modes are available. To switch between modes, use the popup list button.

When the Replay Editor is launched the Replay mode is the activated one.

• Quit mode:

Activating this mode will close the Replay Editor.

• Replay mode:

In the Replay mode, you can replay the archived session an unlimited number of times.

The replayed functions are Play, Pause/Resume, Stop, Fast Forward, Fast Rewind, and also the possibility to set up the play speed rate to replay the session. All these functions are available in the Modes area via buttons and slide bars.

• The Play button:

• The Pause/Resume button:

• The Stop button:

• The Play Speed widget:

• The Fast Forward, Fast Backward buttons: