gk_toAll3gk

Overview

These commands provide a way to execute commands on a variety of workstations in a GroupKit conference.

gk_toAll command

arranges for command to be executed by all users in a GroupKit session, including the local user.

gk_toOthers command

executes command on all remote users' workstations, but not the local workstation.

gk_serialize command

executes command on all users' workstations. This command is used to ensure that a sequence of commands are executed in the same order on all users' workstations. This is accomplished by serializing the commands through a single conference process.

gk_toUserNum usernum command

executes command only on the workstation of the user identified by usernum, which may be either a remote user or the local user.

gk_RPCtoUserNum usernum command

executes command on the workstation of the user identified by usernum, and returns the result of executing that command. Because the program will block until a result is received from the remote user, this can lead to extremely unresponsive programs. This construct should be used extremely sparingly; there are always better ways to do what you're probably trying to do by using it.

Note

In the future, these commands will function not only with conferences, but with registrar clients (or in fact, any GroupKit client/server setup).