SL Jira issue VWR-394: HTML floater for LSL dialogs

Argent Stonecutter proposes the following idea in the Second Life Jira system at https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-394

Second Life Viewer – VWR-394
LSL function to access the HTML floater for more capable dialogs.

There have been a number of sugestions for extending the dialogs in SL. Here’s a much easier way to get the same functonality, with minimum server-side changes required: An llHTMLWindow request that would, if you had PERMISSION_OPEN_WINDOW (which could be automatically granted to attachments) open a window displaying an HTML page assembled by the script. Almost everything required to implement it is in place:
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The response would come back in chat as a URL-encoded string, similar to a CGI “GET” response: “name=value&name=value&…”. Parsing this in a listen event would be easy, given llUnescapeURL():

Sounds like a good idea to me. I voted for it. Perhaps you should too.

LSLwiki.net search – Why so slow?

Why is the LSLwiki.net search so agonizingly slow, and what can be done about it?

I applied for the Hipihi beta today.

I applied to the Hipihi beta program today. I had some correspondence with them already, but I saw an official application form and figured I’d send that in as well.

If there’s anyone reading this who has tried Hipihi, I’d love to hear from you.

What sort of problem?

A description of what the problem is, what the symptoms are, would be nice.

Areae ?

Any progress on Areae?

Merging unrelated Jira issues is a bad idea.

Folks have taken to merging Jira issues made by separate people, that concern completely unrelated matters, into one proposal.

This unwise practice eliminates the ability for people to express their support or lack of support for separate, distinct, unrelated ideas by voting for some of the ideas and not voting for the other ideas which have been included in the merged issue.

Any unrelated issues that have been merged together in this fashion should be reopened separately, to gain votes or not, on their own individual merits, as their 

The  practice of merging unrelated ideas into one issue should be stopped.

Anarcho-Capitalist Stefan Molyneux on “Free Talk Live”

I received the following group notice from Chumly Chandrayaan of the SL in-world group Anarcho-Capitalists:

Group Notice From: Chumly Chandrayaan

Tomorrow, on Wednesday June 13th, the prolific Anarcho-Capitalist podcaster, writer, and philosopher Stefan Molyneux will be a guest on the show ‘Free Talk Live’. Stefan Molyneux is the host of the “Freedomain Radio” podcast (nearly 800 seperate audio files), the author of 70+ articles and several books. You can listen to free talk live through a feed in the Gimme Liberty Bar in the region Sorens (coordinates: 237, 173, 76). The show starts at 7:00 p.m. central U.S. time.

Be there or be square!

That location in secondlife linkable form is secondlife://237/173/76/

Second Life Feature Suggestion: Allow default view looking at front of avatar

Second Life Jira Issue MISC-35: Allow default view looking at front of avatar

Here’s the text of my new feature issue:

Allow us to select a default camera position and focus position that would let us see our avatars from in front instead of always defaulting to having the camera in back staring at our butts.

Torley Linden responded:

This can currently be done using a scripted FollowCam attachment.

I’m pretty sure Torley is wrong. I find no evidence that such a scripted device exists. My attempts to produce such a thing failed. I think the camera controls are designed to prevent one from being able to do this. Torley has not supplied any examples of scripted FollowCam attachments that behave in the manner Torley described.

Every single other 3D program with avatars and a virtual world that I’ve ever seen has some form of this ability.

If anyone can tell me where to find such a script please do so.

Please stop by the SL Jira site and vote for MISC-35 .

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-35

Second Life Topsites: Where do I put the code?

SL Avatar Richard Palace sent me an inworld IM suggesting listing my blog in Second Life Topsites to increase traffic.

Having filled out the application form, I was presented with some html code to past into this site.

Where am I supossed to paste it?

SL Jira issue – MOTD on IM open – VWR-1149

There’s a Jira issue created by Timeless Prototype, VWR-1149 that you might want to vote for.

When a user chooses to IM another person, as soon as the IM window is opened it should display the recipient’s MOTD text that they will have entered in their preferences.

The text should be able to include http:// links that would open up a browser and could be used for FAQ pages etc.

It is essential that the MOTD appears before any messages are sent by the user. [Edit]It should display the MOTD regardless of whether the recipient is online or not.[/Edit] The idea is to reduce the massive number of IMs that come through to individuals, also known as “IM Storms”.

Example use cases:

A person with a great deal of SL customers all asking the same questions: sets their MOTD to “Thank you for your interest in our products, if you are about to ask a question it is most likely answered already in our FAQ: http://www.example.com/faq.html. Please check that before sending any messages. Questions that are answered in the FAQ will not be answered via IM. Thank you.”

A Linden Lab employee: “Hi, I am responsible for facilitating communications with open source developers. If you need some other kind of help from a Linden, please visit this page to directly contact a more appropriate member of staff: http://www.example.com/contacts_and_roles.html”

An RL business manager: “Please direct all queries via Joe Bloggs or Jane Bloggs as I am currently away on holiday. You can also contact us in other ways by viewing our contacts page: http://www.example.com/contacts.html”

An estate manager: “My hours of duty are from 18:00 to 21:00 PDT. For help outside these hours, contact Joe Bloggs”