Wrenaria Antiesse

First off: I LOVE the menu customizaton options of the new viewer. I do, however, missed the docking option that the sidebar allowed for (I was pro-sidebar the moment it was introduced - I always hated the mess that the free floating windows can create). If they brought back an option to have your menu items docked OR free floating (not just free floating), I'd be a happy girl. I also miss having the chat bar properly integrated in the bottom menu. I don't know where the heck to stick it now that it's free floating where it's not either awkward or blocking the text as it appears, but I suppose that's a minor quibble. Seems like I just barely got used to the notifications being in the lower right (after months of them being there), and now they are at the top again, lol. Oh well. I will adjust. (edited for silly typos)

Thanks to you both. This has been incredibly helpful in pointing me the right direction.

Do you think it would it be possible to detect and IM an avatar that was standing on the dropbox? Perhaps make it have a large enough base to accomodate the dropper with some sort of collision detection involved? Or am I getting too outside the box on that one?

"with prior interaction you can identify the dropper, mostly by only enabling the ability for a limited time by request" I'm unclear what you mean here. I am assuming "prior interaction" would be touching the object. It's the rest of it that has me scratching my head... A personal dropbox that speaks to the main could work. I hadn't thought of that. Not exactly ideal, but a decent alternate plan if I can't work out a more eloquent fix. Thanks for the advice, Void.

Well on one hand, that's frustrating. On the other, I'm glad to learn I'm not just overlooking some easy fix. Thanks for your reply.

I'm a total scripting newb, but I am trying to learn, so please bear with me. I would like to have two separate dropbox scripts that do similar things.... - a dropbox script that will IM the avatar when they drop a notecard into the box. (I am not sure how to get the script to identify the avatar for the IM without the avatar actually touching the box. I don't want to use say or whisper because I don't want other avatars spammed with the message during the activity that it is for.) - a dropbox script that gives the avatar an object when they drop a notecard into the box (also without having to touch the box). This is what I've come up with so far. Scripting makes me feel stupid(er). Hopefully what I've started with is not completely incompetent. I am truly sorry if it is. default { state_entry() { llAllowInventoryDrop(TRUE); } changed(integer mask) { if(mask & (CHANGED_ALLOWED_DROP | CHANGED_INVENTORY)) llInstantMessage(llDetectedKey(0), "Thank you for submitting your notecard. Blah, blah, blah. These are words."); } touch_start(integer total_number) { llInstantMessage(llDetectedKey(0),"Please drop your completed notecard here..."); } }