Sire Sands Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 There are many text documents and notecards used in Libraries in Second Life, museums etc. There are free ebooks in text in libraries, but we cannot search them the contents. We cannot even search card titles :(... I'm looking for a solution to how to search notecards or text documents in SL. I'd like the contents on a notecard to be searchable, and results from a search links to the notecards. Any help appreciated... see also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libraries_in_virtual_worlds Sire Sands (Michael Stardust) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 If you have a notecard open, you can press ctrl-f to search for text inside of it. If you have a lot of notecards and you want to, for example, pick out which ones have the word "shakespear" in them, that's not possible. You would need to store all the notecards in some sort of external-to-SL database and perhaps use tools in SL to access the database in-world. If you don't have too many notecards, and you manually associate each one with a set of tags, (Ex. "Fiction" "Non-fiction" "Science"), or a classification system like Dewey Decimal, you might be able to make something work with only in-world scripting tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalates Urriah Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 If you want that capability, file a JIRA feature request. I suspect there is a hidden treasure trove of information in virtual libraries. But I am not sure how useful that information would be. Most of our gaming tech and how to info we put in the Wiki. The rest we talk about here in the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, Quistess Alpha said: If you have a notecard open, you can press ctrl-f to search for text inside of it. This may be viewer-dependent. In the official LL viewer, I am certain that the "search dialog" comes up instead. So, I always copy from the notecard into "notepad" / "notepad++" if I need to search.. Edited January 11, 2023 by Love Zhaoying Wrong words 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: This may be viewer-dependent. In the official LL viewer, I am certain that the "search dialog" comes up instead. You need to have the the notecard as the 'active window', and perhaps the text-cursor line visible in the notecard (it does seem to also work on no-mod notecards). If not, it brings up a in-viewer web-browser with google as the homepage. (Kokua behavior only?) Edited January 11, 2023 by Quistess Alpha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 39 minutes ago, Quistess Alpha said: You need to have the the notecard as the 'active window', and perhaps the text-cursor line visible in the notecard (it does seem to also work on no-mod notecards). If not, it brings up a in-viewer web-browser with google as the homepage. (Kokua behavior only?) Weird! Will give it a try to confirm when I can login.. I bonk myself all the time when I hit ctrl-F in a notecard - that I am actively working on - where it is MOD and my cursor is in it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 @Quistess Alpha, please see the screen shot below showing how Ctrl-F brings up the browser window with "Second Life Search". In this example, I even highlighted some text before Ctrl-F. Prior to that, I had just placed my cursor in the notecard with the same result. This is my work-in-progress modify every day notecard... I also tried changing something so the "save" button shows up, same result - Ctrl-F brings up the browser. If you can tell me what to "fix" or what I'm doing wrong, I'll be grateful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: If you can tell me what to "fix" or what I'm doing wrong, I'll be grateful! Are you using a third party viewer? Kokua, Firestorm, Cool VL, and Catznip all seem to have notecard search functionality. I can't test any other viewers readily. Edited January 11, 2023 by Quistess Alpha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Quistess Alpha said: 11 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: If you can tell me what to "fix" or what I'm doing wrong, I'll be grateful! Are you using a third party viewer? Kokua, Firestorm, Cool VL, and Catznip all seem to have notecard search functionality. I can't test any other viewers readily. Nope! Official LL viewer as first stated! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Interesting that we got Linkset Data "searching" (via RegEx, at least for the "Key") but nothing for Notecards! I guess my solution would be to index the notecard in the first place, probably in JSON. Then, load the JSON into LSD and search the Key's using RegEx. Just one option.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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