Why does Web Browser Bar pop up?

[Pamela Galli]

A customer says the following:  "When my courser pointo to the floor a Web Browser bar pops up on my screen."

 

On my model, nothing pops up. What could be having this effect?

 

I don't really know what she means about web browser bar. 

[Dora Gustafson]

When you have media on a prim and your cursor is over that prim(or face) a 'web browser bar' pops up'

:smileysurprised::smileyvery-happy:

PS! See examples here

[Pamela Galli]

I don't know much about media on a prim. I have a couple of prims I made a while back so you could browse a website -- I think I just set something in the texture tab.

 

But the floor of this house doesn't have anything like that, at least my model does not. I guess she could have inadvertantly set that?

 

 

[Dora Gustafson]

Maybe she has or maybe some invisible prim with shared media is in the way

[Rolig Loon]

Pam, that media control bar can be annoying and, as Dora says, you can activate it with mouseover without really knowing which prim you dragged your cursor across.  Then it persists for a few seconds too.  Truly annoying.  You can limit it with good scripting, though.  The llSetPrimMediaParams function allows you to specify PRIM_MEDIA_PERMS_CONTROL as PRIM_MEDIA_PERM_NONE, which means that nobody can see the control bar. Short of that, you can set it so that only the owner or group members can see it.  I think the default, which gets set if you create your MOAP display with the Edit/Build too, is PRIM_MEDIA_PERM_ANYONE.  I suspect that's the way your customer's are set.

[Pamela Galli]

Thanks. Can she change some setting in her viewer so she doesn't see this?

 

She says she unchecked "the media box" in preferences and while the floor does not turn white, as reportedly it did, she still gets the browser bar.

[Rolig Loon]

Ah, so it really was the floor that got MOAP-activated, then.  She should be able to de-activate it by selecting the floor prim (if it's linked, she'll need to "Edit Linked Prims"), and then going to the Textures tab.  Down at the bottom is where the MOAP parameters are set.  She ought to be able to click the tiny trash can icon to remove the media feature from that prim.  That ought to work.

[Cerise Sorbet]

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Pamela Galli wrote:

I don't know much about media on a prim. I have a couple of prims I made a while back so you could browse a website -- I think I just set something in the texture tab.

 

But the floor of this house doesn't have anything like that, at least my model does not. I guess she could have inadvertantly set that?

 

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Yes, if that floor is mod, it would be pretty easy to do.  The real fix for an object that shouldn't have media in the first place is to select the floor in the editor, go back to the texture tab, and click the trash can icon at the bottom.  This leaves the regular texture intact.

[Rolig Loon]

Oh... another possibility, short of removing MOAP, if that proves problematic ...... If she clicks on the + icon, that will open the Media Parameters control window.  Then, if she clicks the Customize tab, she'll see a tick box to Show Control Bar, which she should obviously UNcheck.

[Pamela Galli]

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Rolig Loon wrote:

Ah, so it really was the floor that got MOAP-activated, then.  She should be able to de-activate it by selecting the floor prim (if it's linked, she'll need to "Edit Linked Prims"), and then going to the Textures tab.  Down at the bottom is where the MOAP parameters are set.  She ought to be able to click the tiny trash can icon to remove the media feature from that prim.  That ought to work.

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Thanks Rolig. The floor in my model does not do this and I have not had any other reports, so I am assuming somehow hers got set this way. I will have her try this.

[Pamela Galli]

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Cerise Sorbet wrote:

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Pamela Galli wrote:

I don't know much about media on a prim. I have a couple of prims I made a while back so you could browse a website -- I think I just set something in the texture tab.

 

But the floor of this house doesn't have anything like that, at least my model does not. I guess she could have inadvertantly set that?

 

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Yes, if that floor is mod, it would be pretty easy to do.  The real fix for an object that shouldn't have media in the first place is to select the floor in the editor, go back to the texture tab, and click the trash can icon at the bottom.  This leaves the regular texture intact.

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Thanks Cerise!