[Opensim-users] Set whisper distance to zero ? Alternative debug channel ?

[Neil Canham]

You could log in an avatar solely for the purpose, hide it away up high or
in a corner of the sim, them use the script to send it IMs which would be
logged in the chat logs.

Neil

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Vanish Seriath <
vanish.tomorrow at googlemail.com> wrote:

> llsay can specify channels (the first variable is an integer defining the
> channel; 0 is local chat). A script can be set to listen to a specific
> channel and write that output to a notecard, so that would be the easiest
> solution imho.
>
> On 12 May 2011 15:17, "Simon Slavin" <s.slavin at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use OpenSim for unusual purposes: psychological testing.  In
> order to give me information about what the user (or, more precisely, their
> avatar) does, I need to be able to log various things to a text file which
> can be processed afterwards.  The way I've been doing this without messing
> with how OpenSim works is to use llSay() with mute on, so that the text
> doesn't appear on the screen.
>
> I'm not particularly happy with this solution so I thought of whispering
> instead.  I could use llWhisper() and in the configuration file set the
> whisper distance to 0.  Does anyone know if this would cause problems with
> anything else that goes on ?  Perhaps I should set the whisper distance to
> 0.000001 instead.  Or someone may know of a completely different way to make
> a text log file.
>
> Ideally I'd be using a special chat channel to do this: perhaps talk to
> channel 0x7FFFFFFE might just put text directly in a file on disk without
> showing it on the screen.  It occurs to me that this could be a useful
> debugging tool for many users, not just myself, and should not interfer with
> much code which has already been written.  Perhaps it could be added to a
> future version of OpenSim.  Does anyone think this could be a reasonable
> feature request ?
>
> Simon.
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