GroupKit 5.0 Documentation

Overview

• GroupKit 5.0 Overview
• Internal Architecture

User Manual

• Introduction
• Using GroupKit Applications - An End User's View
• An Example GroupKit Program
• Coordinating Multiple Users
• Using Environments to Find out Information about Users
• Conference Events
• Groupware Widgets and Awareness
• Shared Environments
• Concurrency Control
• Debugging and Performance Issues
• Other GroupKit Features

(Primarily) External Commands Reference

• gk::to - Multicast remote procedure calls
• gk::event - Generate and respond to local events
• gk::schedule - Manage the execution of repetitive commands
• gk::environment - Shared tree-based data structure
• gk::users - Keep track of information on conference users
• gk::conference - Miscellaneous conference facilities
• gk::sessionmgr - Utilities to build session manager applications
• gk::preferences - Manage user preference information

User Interface and Widget Commands Reference

• gk::telepointers - Multiple cursors
• gk::scrollbar - Multi-user scrollbar
• gk::radar - Radar view awareness display
• gk::menus - Standard menubar facilities for GroupKit applications
• gk::participants - Various facilities for interacting with user information

(Primarily) Internal Commands Reference

• gk::rpc - Maintain socket connections between processes
• gk::debug - Debugging facilities
• gk::registry - Convenience routines for accessing the global registry
• gk::init - Handle process startup and initialization
• gk::shutdown - Handle process termination and cleanup
• gk::service - Locate and connect to specific facilities offered by other processes
• gk::awareness - Support for maintaining workspace awareness information
• gk::base64 - Base64 encoding and decoding of binary files

Supplied Services

• idgenerator - Assign unique identifiers
• environmenthost - Host centralized environments
• laucher - Create new conference processes
• persistence - Provide a persistence repository for conference data