Hey there, my heatmap inside WhatPulse is kinda messed up since I play a lot of FPS that center the mouse, but now that you can export data I thought I’d write a little app that will generate me a customizable heatmap. You can customize the size of the squares and the intensity of the amplification.
How to use it: Export your heatmap data from WhatPulse as .csv, then put the .jar into the same directory as the .csv. Run the .jar, enter the filename (which should be right be default), screen resolution and your desired settings.
Very cool. I play a lot of games as well which result in a similar heatmap for me with the mouse centered. Here’s what I got when I used your application.
It’s strange though. Although both heatmaps show a huge concentration of clicks in the dead center of the screen, presumably because of my use of directx mouse capture applications like games, it’s hard to see this in the data. My native screen resolution is 1600x900, but it isn’t like I see rows upon rows of clicks at 800, 450, like I would expect. I can find a few by trawling through the data, but not nearly as many as I would think. Thoughts?
I follow the steps but upon the clicking the final one (amplification), the application disappears and nothing else appears afterwards. [My .csv document is over 1.27 million lines long - if that would affect anything.]
Okay, I found 59 clicks that were past the 1919th pixel (the first pixel being the 0th pixel). I updated it and should work now simply ignoring all pixels outside the specified bounds.
You won’t see any clicks in the actual dead center of the screen, as that’s being ignored in the WhatPulse client. All the initial tests (with a bunch of different games) said the mouse was locked in the dead center, but that’s not true for all computers, they seem to behave differently. That’s why 2.4 now has a quick&easy ‘disable’ button for just the heat map.
Nice application. I’m a hobby developer and I can see the UI from Visual Studio in the heatmap. The only negative aspect about it: you can clearly see how WhatPulse is tracking mouse coordinates. http://puu.sh/8i3tg.png
You see the main taskbar? Now search for the second taskbar above (Windows 8). Same can be applied to screen borders. (First monitor resolution: 2048x1152, second monitor resolution: 1280x1024)
@micycle
Yes, but out of your over a million clicks there are 59 clicks outside of the monitor size, which I find weird. And as AliveDevil has pointed out, WP doesn’t make the range of coordinates any bigger and rather starts at x0 on the left side of your second monitor.
@AliveDevil
Thanks! Yeah you can clearly see the borders and the taskbar. But as you said thats nothing I could fix since that’s just the way WP tracks :x
