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Roseman, M., Yitbarek, S. and Greenberg, S. (1993)
GroupKit Tutorial. Research report, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, December.
Type: Research report. Updated periodically; other versions posted over time available on request. e.g., May, 1994 || January, 1995 retitled Groupkit User Manual
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Abstract.
GroupKit is a toolkit for developing real-time groupware applications. Based on Berkeley’s public domain Tcl/Tk language, it provides the basis for building groupware applications. Tcl is an interpreted shell-type programming language, and Tk is an interface toolkit for the X11 window system. GroupKit also relies on Tcl-DP, a Tcl front-end to standard Unix sockets, for its communication needs. GroupKit programs therefore run on Unix machines.
This tutorial is an introduction to developing groupware applications using GroupKit. Having completed this tutorial, the reader should be able to run and develop groupware applications using many of the important concepts and components provided by the toolkit.
This tutorial describes the organization of GroupKit programs, followed by mini-tutorials on:
- Creating GroupKit conference applications.
- Starting GroupKit and running simple applications.
Keywords: Real time groupware toolkits