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Multiuser Lingo by feature overview

There are several categories of Lingo scripting elements for multiuser applications:

| Multiuser Lingo functions are provided by the Multiuser Xtra. They control the Director movie itself as it functions in a multiuser application, connecting to remote hosts, sending and receiving messages, checking error codes, monitoring the state of the movie, and so on.
| Server commands are instructions to the Shockwave Multiuser Server. Send them as messages with the `sendNetMessage()` Lingo function.
| Group commands are server commands used to manage groups of users and group attributes.
| Server database commands are server commands for interacting with database files on a remote host.
| Multithreading commands are server-side commands that allow you to create a multithreaded environment on the server so your server-side scripts run faster.
| File-access commands are server-side commands that let you open, read, and manipulate files on the server computer.
| Debugging commands are server-side commands that let you examine and isolate errors in your server-side scripts.

This chapter lists Director's various multiuser features and the corresponding Lingo elements that you can use to implement those features. Click an element to go to that element's Lingo Dictionary entry.