Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 22 98

Foil 38 Users Information in Tango

From Pictorial View of Tango Features with tutorial SIGGRAPH 98 Orlando -- July 19-23 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 There are other capabilities of Control Application with users, mailbox, configuration and help tabs
2 The users tab can tell you more about all the users who are logged into the Tango Server
  • Their handle (login name), name of their client machine, status message, and time they last changed status
3 Each user is responsible for setting status message
4 On next page, we show the result of double clicking on a given user.
  • Up pops more information!
5 You can ping the user -- send a message to see the user machine is still alive.
6 If the ping works, try a hail which tries the wake the user up so he or she can collaborate with you.
  • Use a chat window to have a more detailed dialog with a hailed user

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