Saii Hallard

Happy new year everyone I'd really commit myself to start using 2.x in this new year. There seem to be some good changes to this flawed viewer, but it's still a long way from usable. 90% of all I do in SL is scripting, but I'm afraid I have to drop this viewer again, it's just not workable. Opening a 1000+ line script not only take a long time, it even locks up the viewer and shows a black screen for some time. Shared media is still not functioning right. I think I did a JIRA entry on this subject over a year ago. A rudimentary usage of showing a webimage fully on a primface can not be scripted, because it has to be aligned (by clicking a button)... I'm sure much work has gone into making this, but such rudimentary things should work. Shared media filtering to keep a user on a certain website does not work. Disabling bar/permissions on shared media for the owner does not work. And many more simple things that can be found when using the shared media for 10 minutes are flawed. The default fontsize for scripts and notecards is still too small, they set a size that is not only difficult to read, but distorting the font itself. Biggest annoyance is that although the notification on the 1.x viewer says that the new viewer will not replace your old viewer, it will change all settings, remove clothing/huds, clears your cache, create folders in your inventory, reset the auto-help etc. So, when you think to start using the 1.x again to get rid of the headache you got when using 2.x, your confronted with making adjustments to all settings, colors, and clicking on the "this is your inventory" popups. I even tried the special mesh-import viewer, tried about 5 meshes from various sources, 3 crashed the viewer and 2 just did nothing on import, no notification it failed... just nothing. I'm afraid if that will be another source of frustration if it's released in the same state as this 2.x viewer. Using an non-official viewer is out of the question, with the history of data mining, i'm afraid my password is not safe by using Phoenix or the like. I'll try 2.x for a bit more, but I'm afraid it will be a serious test of my patience having to wait every time i open a script.