[Opensim-dev] ScenePresence.FlyDisabled property

[Teravus Ovares]

RE: Difference in FlyDisabled vs FlyUnavailable,
I'm thinking that FlyDisabled would be used for a specific purpose in
a module and it wouldn't necessarily depend on the land or region
settings..  where FlyUnavailable would.

Regards

Teravus

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Justin
Clark-Casey<jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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