Belladonna Eberhardt

Do you have an ATI video card? Could be a graphics driver issue. Look here https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/latest-amd-catalyst14-12-drivers-continue-sl-rigged-mesh-woes/ That could be your issue. Not sure.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: I just noticed some of you are tweeting to Rodvick https://twitter.com/Rodvick https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=Rodvick+&src=typd when I think you mean to be tweeting Rodvik https://twitter.com/rodvik D'oh! haha Thank you!

As many of us have experienced, group chat is fairly often useless. A JIRA was opened on it in Novemember of 2007, more than five years ago. This weekend it was especially bad. The group we have has FOUR members. We're often on the same sim. There should not be any errors. Yet IF we can start a group chat at all (often we cannot) we get dropped messages, messages coming out of order, messages taking 5 minutes to post. It's beyond ridiculous. So in response to LLs attention to this matter, a matter that is critical in a world where communication is the cornerstone of activity and commerce, I have decided to tweet the following EVERY time a group chat problem occurs. @SecondLife @Rodvick Group chat messages dropped or unable to open at all. Why has this not been addressed? JIRAs been open for FIVE YEARS. Maybe a massive and more public flooding of the interwebs with bad feedback might get them to actually look at the problem. I hope you will ALL join me. It's a simple message, and will take but a moment out of your day to post. Though if you get dozens of errors as I do, and post this message after every one, you may spend too much time on it. Use your discretion :P

If it's mainland you can do it through live chat. If it's a private sim contact the sim owner.

Nothing to lose I'll give it a whirl. Thanks!

ah yes. Thanks for the info. I never loaded the SL viewer after my last clean install of Windows. I only loaded Emerald. So there's nothing for it to share!

Really. I lost an entire folder of stuff. But just one so I followed all the usual instructions then figured I must have done something dumb. Anything you could tell me about this bug might be helpful. Thanks!

OMG you're my hero!!!! left alt shift totally turns it on and off. YAY! Thanks you get a cookie.

oooo it does doesn't it?? Of course I can't read anything at that link...

Since I'm not entirely sure what language that is that will be difficult. However, it appears to be trying to translate from the english I type to whatever language that is. So if I type "dog" it will, I assume, give me the symbol for dog.

Yes I have done that and it still appears. *shrugs* sooner or later hopefully somebody will look at that picture and go "ah-ha!" /me crosses fingers

No when I right click it nothing happens. Also when it makes its random appearance I have tried taking off all the items my inventory shows I'm wearing. That doesn't make it go away. It doesn't appear to be a hud. Thanks for trying!

All righty I've tried all of these suggestions and lo and behold...last night I got the silly thing again. Very annoying. I'm going to load the SL viewer and see if I get it with that. Thanks everyone for trying I really appreciate it.

That would be helpful! How can I see who created it?? Nothing happens when I right click on it and it doesn't seem to be an attachment on my avi. Is there some other way to find that info?

I agree I was pretty sure the Emerald team would be more helpful. But they said "no" lol Thanks for all your answers so far everyone. I appreciate you help.

It's not on the desktop, it's firmly planted in the viewer. But I can move the bar around the viewer window.

It doesn't have it's own text input box. It inputs the text from where you're putting in text in SL...chat bar, inventory, search box, etc. As you input it shows the text in that box in the upper left, but you can't change it there, though you can select one of the characters beneath it for your translation. It'd actually be a neat tool if I needed it. Or had any idea how to make it stop when I didn't need it.

Im not sure about anything! It just started magically appearing sometimes...and only when I'm in SL. I have no idea how are why or what or where it came from, it's not always there.I've tried right clicking on the thing to see if I can get more info or turn it off and nothing happens. There's no discernable way to access options on it. I'm not convinced it part of the viewer, it might be something with Windows 7, but who knows?? I've done a Google search and can't find anything on it but then again since I have no idea where it came from I may not be searching the right terms. I didn't know where else to turn and all of you are sooo helpful I thought this was my best bet. Vick I'm not wearing a translator and I don't have RLV enabled. And I checked both just to be sure since I am a flake lol. I'll try Bob's suggestion when I get home tonight and reinstall the viewer. Can't hurt. Thanks for your answers so far everyone.

Here's a picture of an oddity that has started to appear from time to time for no apparent reason. See it in the upper left of the screen? Whenever I type anything anywhere - chat, IMs, search inventory, anything - that bar pops up and tries to translate into whatever language that is. Japanese? Chinese? Korean? does it matter?? No!  I can't figure out what I'm doing to make it appear and the only way I can get it to go away is to relog. Anybody know what it is and/or how to get rid of it? Thanks!

Actually no. Sadly bacon salt was not even mentioned. Fools they're missing out on the greatest seasoning ever invented! But they were happy I agreed that Daria was a big meanie. Pretty sure I never said that.

Can I post an unsolicted private message here that I just got related to this thread? Or is that a violation of TOS? It made me LOL. 'tards are fun!

http://www.baconsalt.com/

don't forget bacon salt!

There are also mobile phone apps. I use Sparkle for the iPhone. You log into SL from your phone and have IM and chat functions. You can choose where to login at so you can use local chat as well as IM.