[Opensim-dev] ScenePresence.FlyDisabled property

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Teravus Ovares wrote:
> Hey there
> 
> I was exploring ScenePresence looking for a way to add a feature to
> enforce 'no fly' serverside and I noticed that there's a property
> 'FlyDisabled' that isn't obviously used.   Now, I know that just
> because OpenSimulator doesn't explicitly use a public property doesn't
> mean that it isn't used at all.  It could be used by a module.
> 
> So, I'd like to have a server side option that enforces no-fly server
> side (which means that clients cannot directly fly..   they can 'look'
> like they're flying with the client button, but it won't have an
> effect on the server).    I'm thinking the best way to proceed would
> be to have a method called by the 'Significant Movement' method to
> check the parcel and region settings and set a simple boolean property
> to check in the HandleMovement code.    FlyDisabled seems appropriate,
> however, if it's used by client applications in some way that's
> different then using FlyDisabled may interfere with that application
> of the property..  so it would be better to create another one called
> FlyUnavailable or something like that.

How would FlyDisabled be different from FlyUnavailable?  The FlyDisabled property has no documentation.  If we do end up 
with two properties, could we document in the code the differences between the two?

> 
> If I don't hear from anyone, just to be safe, I'll create another
> property....     but if someone that is using that property lets me
> know that it's appropriate for what I'm thinking, I'd prefer to reuse
> it to keep the code from complexity bloat.
> 
> Let me know :)
> 
> Teravus
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