Scripted control of 'Preferences' settings in Viewer 2

[Xilin Yifu]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is a way to control preference settings in Viewer 2 via scripting? For example, when my students view Chinese characters in an IM or in general chat based on the standard default settings, the characters are too small. I could get them to go into 'Preferences' / 'Chat' and then change the font size from medium to large, but with 130 students it is a time consuming task when they should be focusing on the lesson content.

I have made a multi-purpose HUD that can a number of things that makes their learning experience easier, such as adding a button that sets their camera in a particular way so that their cameras are not affected when in small spaces. All they have to do is click the camera icon on my HUD and select from a popup menu and it's done. I would like them to be able to do the same with font size and maybe other settings like draw distance.

Any leads would be hugely appreciated.

Xilin Yifu

[Innula Zenovka]

I don't think there's any way with LSL to control viewer settings, though I'm open to correction.    The only way I know in most cases for scripted objects to control your viewer settings -- as opposed to the behaviour of what's effectively an in-world object normally controlled from your viewer, like your camera -- is to use a specially compiled viewer (like RLV, which won't be any help here) with an API you can access with LSL functions such as llOwnerSay().

[Void Singer]

not via script, but you can preset it when the viewer starts by adding

--set ChatFontSize 2

to the command line parameters

 

this works for almost any debug setting you can find in the advanced menu --> debug settings window

[Xilin Yifu]

Hi Innula and Void,

Thank you both very much for your suggestions.

I tried out Void's suggested approach and it worked well for the LL viewer I tested. Now I am going to see if our IT people can add the extra setting into the Viewer 2 shortcut before they push the software + shortcut out to the computers in our computer lab. If they can, this will certainly be a big improvement on our current situation.

 

Thank you both very much for taking the time to respond.

 

Cheers,

 

Xilin