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There are several 'Third Party Viwers' - you just download the one you want and then run that instead of the normal SL viewer. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory 'Things staying grey' is, probably, a different issue though - it's all about download speed, bandwidth limits and almost everything else on the internet :-( SL is not like normal programs, almost everything is made by other residents and has to be downloaded as you see it, rather than being installed once

This is a forum for discussing HOW to script. If you wish to employ a scripter you are better-off posting in the Commerce > Wanted forum http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Wanted/bd-p/Wanted or Commerce > Inworld Employment http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld-Employment/bd-p/InworldEmployment

LSL does not have the functions necessary to see if someone is in a specific group, only to see if they are in 'this group'.

The best, most versatile and anonymous way to not be seen online is to create an alt and use that when you want to be incognito. Even with the most stringent options available at the moment any script can check (several times a minute) whether you are online or not. If 'you' aren't online at all, but a different, unknown alt account is there's no way to find out :-)

Yeah, you're right - the notecard-reading is fine, it's just the way you were trying to go through the list once it had been read in that was the problem. One change I'd recommend to the reader though - let it tell you when it's finished, just so you know :-) if (ldata == EOF){ llOwnerSay("Finished reading notecard");}else{ ... what it does now ...}

Ann Otoole wrote: A suggestion I think needs to be formulated and put forth is that someone be appointed to try to create a weekly digest of all solid info from all user groups and have an easy to read summary of what all is going on that is public (not "sekret"). It is kind of hard to read all those transcripts without ADD kicking in. Indeed, which is why I don't read them all. I was rather hinting that Linden Lab should appoint someone to do at least monthly updates on the roadmap. In fact I think that's exactly what they said they were going to do ... about 6 months ago. /me waves - Hello, LL, a bit of communication here!

Erm, can we see the bit that actually reads the notecard? For the incrementing I'd just use one variable: integer Pointer = 0;while(Pointer < llGetListLength(gNotecardData)){ string Sname = llList2String(gNotecardData, Pointer++); rotation Rot = (rotation) llList2String(gNotecardData, Pointer++); vector Pos = (vector) llList2String(gNotecardData, Pointer++); llOwnerSay(Snam + "\n" + (string) Pos + "\n" + (string) Rot); llRezObject(Snam, llGetPos() + Pos, ZERO_VECTOR, llGetRot() * Rot, 99);} You're reading straight through the list so just keep moving the pointer on, no need to think of 'groups' as such. I've also got rid of the intermediate string variables by casting to rotation and vector as you read from the list and I think the 'llGetRot() + Rot' that you had should be '*' (multiply rotations together normally). Finally, note that the there is no need for a separate line incrementing the pointer at the end of the loop with this style - it's always incremented in the llList2String() functions

Long time, no update. What's the latest on Mesh, Script Limits, etc? Anyone know, or is it all web-profiles and **bleep**-book

Ishtara Rothschild wrote: ...You should also contact your lawyer and have them prepare a letter that requests disclosure of the name and RL address of the person in question, in order to take legal action against this party on the grounds of libel. The letter should mention that this person has repeatedly been reported to Linden Lab. That might give them a sense of urgency. Plus, there is a good chance that you really get access to the RL information. You could send the idiot an official looking cease and desist letter... Totally agree. If it matters that much start RL legal proceedings. Even if you don't really intend to take it very far getting an official legal letter delivered to their RL home really shakes-up the morons when they realise there are RL consequences for their illegal (ie; libellous) SL activities. If it doesn't matter that much then posting here is just drama too. [Obviously I can't condone the rest of Ishy's suggestion, however. We use cricket bats in England]

Vladi Hazelnut wrote: In order for her to sue you she would have to prove you are making some sort of profit from it that she isn't because you are using it. Now if she created a gesture that she sells and you are selling it then LL can check the creation date and if hers is earlier than yours they could remove it from your inventory. As soon as you create something in SL it is essentially copyrighted material. All Linden labs needs to do is check the creator and the date of the item. If you create an original object in SL it is indeed yours. 1. You don't need to be profiting to breach copyright. All those people posting copyrighted videos on YouTube are still breaking the law even though they aren't getting anything out of it. 2. "As soon as you create something in SL it is essentially copyrighted material" - but only if that material is amenable to copyright law. Her gesture would be but if you made a gesture that happened to use the same word/phrase then that is yours, the word/phrase itself can't be copyrighted.

Helium Loon wrote: However, rotating the 'wheel' of the build is possible. The base could be a heirarchy of prims, with an 'axle' as the single prim that links between it and the 'wheel' prims (which would allow it to form a heirarchical chain of prims, maintaining the single-parent-to-any-number-of-children rule. The script can then rotate THAT prim (requires some additional math work, since you have to calculate the rotations about the child, not the root) and the prims that are children of it will move with it as desired. Not so Helium. All child prims in a link-set have the same, root, parent. You cannot have a 'heirarchy of prims' - just root and children. As Winter said, if you want to move/change only 'some' child prims you have to address them individually. It may be possible to do that quickly enough using llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast() but for any realistic number of child prims there will be a visible delay between the first and last moving. If there are fewer prims in the 'base' than the 'wheel' it may be more effective to move the whole thing and then move each base-prim back to their original position, rather than moving each wheel-prim. The same visual delay is likely though, unfortunately.

I second Knowl. Thinking of "sides or perimeter" I thought parcels can be odd shapes so you can connect on more than 4 'sides'. Perimeter is hard to calculate (comparatively) for an automated system. The simplest is just to make it 'residents who own land in that region', as Knowl said. I don't know if there's a way to limit sales to a 'non-bot Resident' though. Especially as I doubt most of the land-bot owners have declared them as such.

Sounds good in outline. Some things that aren't clear just from the post - although you've probably thought them through. Deliveries don't always succeed or are rejected by mistake. Neither your old attachment nor your server can be sure that the new version has arrived unless/until the customer attaches it and it sends a 'dear mum, arrived safely' message back to the server. Unless/until then each time they log-in or attach the old version it will, presumably, contact the server, find out there's an update and ... what? Request another copy be sent? Nag the customer to delete it? If the customer really hasn't received the update you don't want them deleting the old one. On the other hand you don't want them getting multiple copies of the update. It's an attachment. How many copies could one avatar legitimately use at any time? Presumably one (or a pair, if it's shoes or something). So why do you care how many copies they have in inventory? Make it copyable and no-transfer then however many they might have they can only attach one at a time anyway. Hmm, I'm sure there's other things to consider but that'll do to start with

Can't help you with buying Lindens, there's no form of payment I have that LL accept. Can help with starting a thread:

Browser tabs for this? One. I'll usually have up to 4 others open - LSL wiki, google search/whatever I'm checking, my development web site, whatever I'm working on there. Lol, I generally have more other applications running than browser tabs (Photoshop, Eclipse, Word, SL, etc.)

I checked online for a more-or-less-authorative answer. This sums it up nicely 3. Can I get a Copyright on This Name/Word/Phrase/Title? No. You can’t. Copyright protects works of creative authorship that are fixed into a tangible medium of expression and it specifically precludes short phrases, titles, etc. The law is very clear on this and for very good reason, if you could copyright a title or a name, then very quickly nothing in the English language would be safe from copyright protection. There is no way to copyright words or short phrases and that’s to the benefit of all. Why it Isn’t Stupid [to ask] You can’t copyright a short word or phrase, but you can trademark one. Many people confuse trademark and copyright law because they are similar in many regards and do have a great deal of overlap, especially when dealing with logo design. Trademark is a much more limited protection than a copyright, designed solely to protect a business’ identifying marks and names within its field, but the two do have a lot in common. Given that there are three types of intellectual property, copyright, trademark and patents, it is understandable that people would be confused, especially when there is so much overlap between the three. (http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/01/21/5-stupid-copyright-questions-that-arent/)

Suspiria Finucane wrote: I happen to love the new web profiles. It's about time we get to use modern tech instead of 10 year old outdated tech. Now if we can only get new avatars... Can you expand on that Suspiria? Usually opinion is divided on anything new - I'm one of those that likes viewer 2, for instance - but you're the only person I've heard say anything nice about the web profiles. What is it that you like about them? (I am only asking for your opionion, not to argue with you) @ Deltango - profiles have been moved out of the viewer and into web-pages. The major complaints against them are that they are very slow to load and ugly. The second of these, at least, we can expect to change quite soon as they are still a 'work in progress' for LL. Presumably Suspiria can give us the 'pro' view :-)

May I say 'well done' on the way you have asked this question. By showing us the code we can spot the problem. "It doesn't work" could have been better but at least we were able to read and check. Many other people are only saying "I can't get my script to work, what do I do?" or similar, without showing us what they have. Not a lot we can do for them :-(

@ Bunky - and then they banned SL? Whatever happened to that plan of Australia's to cut off the internet?

Darrius Gothly wrote: They are moving inexorably to "Web Everything" for a few basic reasons ... But I'm afraid resisting the change is tantamount to screaming at a tsunami, determined not to be washed away. Yes Darrius, and that's what I said. You missed the bit where I also said that v2 was meant to provide that flexibility because it was also, underneath, fundamentally web-based technology (XML et al) instead of the previous stuff 'that doesn't exist anywhere else'. I understand the direction, I just don't understand why things had to move out of v2 when v2 was meant to be the solution (whatever most people say they think of it). [if I didn't know better I'd almost start to think LL weren't telling us/each other something]

So what's the problem? llGetLinkNumber() will still work for 'this prim', Void's solution will work either way for the root or, if you know it'll always be one prim and not linked just stick '0' (zero) in there

Void Singer wrote: !!llGetLinkNumber() to target the root prim Oooo - I said to use llGetLinkNumber() for 'this prim'. Is that really not-not-llGetLinkNumber() for the root? Another fine trick

Also check your firewall isn't blocking SL

The animation is the important thing. After that you just need to put it in a decent AO. There are really only two types of animation script - ones that 'do this' and ones that 'do this and keep checking', the latter being AOs. Then again, if it's a default animation you don't need a script at all.

Probably, but don't hold your breath No. What would you want it to do if you could? No, but see the beta I see No, do the people who created Second Inventory or sold it to you? Yes, but I don't think it's for sale. Look at the marketplace or try google.