RAPTOR Easter Eggs/Logging

The RAPTOR Master Console window has a small text entry area at the bottom.  This can be used to enter RAPTOR commands.  For example, you can type:

Open_Graph_Window(300,300)

to open a graphics window that is 300x300.  When a program is running, you can also change the values of variables, as:

X=15

or you can create a boolean question:

X>5

In addition, RAPTOR has various "easter egg" commands which may be of use to faculty.  These commands allow you to quickly get a summary of how long students have been working on your project, as well as providing mechanisms for detecting plagiarism.

These are:

• count_symbols - prints to the MasterConsole a count of the number of flowchart symbols in the currently loaded file.
• extract_times - First asks for a folder, then a filename for a comma separated file.  This file will contain a list of all the RAPTOR programs in that folder, along with the total time, the number of saves, the last author named in the log file, as well as a globally unique identifier (GUID) associated with this raptor program.  Author names are determined by the login name on the machine.
• extract_times_all - Same as extract_times, but also includes the names of all authors in the file.
• extract_times_recursive - same as extract_times, but searches subfolders recursively
• extract_times_recursive_all - same as extract_times_all, but searches subfolders recursively
• show_guids - Each RAPTOR symbol has a globally unique identifier (GUID) associated with it when it is created.  Each time it is changed, a second GUID is updated.  Using these GUIDs and the log, it can often be determined when and which portions of a RAPTOR program have been copied from one file to another. 

Here is a sample log (from the Tic_Tac_Toe sample, obtained via Help/Show Log):  The appearance of multiple userids in the log may indicate plagiarism.  (In this case, we merely see that Martin Carlisle got a new computer between 2003 and 2006 :-).

LOG for: Raptor - tic_tac_toe.rap(bb01e1e3-e752-432b-bf3f-4832a408202a)
Opened by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE at: 4/28/2003 3:47:00 PM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE at: 4/28/2003 3:51:24 PM
Opened by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE at: 5/16/2003 9:46:02 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE at: 5/16/2003 9:47:14 AM
Opened by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:00:17 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:01:59 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:02:36 AM
1 autosaves.
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:07:33 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:07:43 AM
Opened by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:09:33 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:09:37 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:09:47 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:10:11 AM
Opened by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:50:52 AM
Saved by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 9:51:26 AM
Opened by: Martin.Carlisle on: DFCS-CARLISLE03 at: 5/14/2006 5:16:20 PM
Total time (minutes): 14.25
Total autosaves: 1