[Opensim-users] Fucntion to read a landmark

[Diva Canto]

I haven't been following this discussion closely, but note that I 
recently added an os function to return the Gatekeeper address of the sim.

On 3/13/2012 3:07 PM, BlueWall wrote:
> Do you think that it would be worth the effort to return a list
> containing both the gatekeeper url and the global coordinates? The
> latter so that the distance can be calculated before trying to make the
> jump w/o needing to get that value from the dataserver.
>
> -BlueWall
>
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 18:35 +0100, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
>> We are working on a osGetInventoryLandmarkURL function, and it's
>> working great.
>>
>>
>> Now, it's time to choose the format of the URL ;-)
>>
>>
>> I found two slightly different schemes, which seem to be handled the
>> same way
>> So my question is "what is their scope?"…
>> (this is to choose a relevant constant name)
>>
>>
>> speculoos.net:8002:Agora
>> ->  handled in
>> - map search
>> - in osTeleport (without http)
>>
>>
>> http://speculoos.net:8002/ Agora
>> ->  handled in
>> - map search
>> - in osTeleport
>>
>>
>> The third scheme is more obvious:
>>
>>
>> secondlife://speculoos.net:8002:Agora/
>> ->  handled in
>> - local chat and web only
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://www.speculoos.net/
>> secondlife://speculoos.net:8002/
>> Speculoos, the belgian cookie-flavored metaverse
>>
>> Le 13 mars 2012 à 11:34, BlueWall a écrit :
>>
>>> Here is the asset data from a landmark:
>>>
>>> Landmark version 2
>>> region_id afd7aa20-a820-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66
>>> local_pos 129.1343 124.0458 22.16408
>>> region_handle 10621282326789120
>>> gatekeeper http://grid.nebadon2025.homeftp.net:8002
>>>
>>>
>>> -BlueWall
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 02:47 +0100, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
>>>> I updated mantis http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=5927
>>>> with
>>>> an alternative patch to provide
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> osGetInventoryDesc(string item) instead of osGetInventoryDesc(int
>>>> type, int number)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, thank you ME Verhagen for pointing this workaround.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Still wondering if I can figure a real way to get the landmark
>>>> properties without relying on description field…
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 13 mars 2012 à 01:49, Gudule Lapointe a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> OK, I have a concern about that, and IMHO an issue.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> First the issue:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Using (int type, int number) like in llGetInventoryName() forces
>>>>> an
>>>>> duplicate search.
>>>>> I'll post the full explanation on mantis.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Second, my concern:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Description is a user-modifiable field. Actually, lot of
>>>>> scripters
>>>>> (including me) use it to pass additional values to scripts. So,
>>>>> this
>>>>> function is a really interesting workaround, but would not be
>>>>> 100%
>>>>> reliable to get landmark destination. (though I admit there is
>>>>> less
>>>>> chances to change desc of a landmark than other objects)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 13 mars 2012 à 01:08, M.E. Verhagen a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> the description property.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and the hypergrid adres is stored in the description, for
>>>>>> instance
>>>>>> 'region-name @ speculoos.net:8002'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Op dinsdag 13 maart 2012 schreef Gudule Lapointe
>>>>>> (gudule at spekuloos.be) het volgende:
>>>>>>> The word "Desc" is ambiguous. Is it related to all object
>>>>>> properties or to only the "description" property?
>>>>>>> Of course, description property does not help for the
>>>>>>> landmark
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Le 12 mars 2012 à 23:46, M.E. Verhagen a écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yes a function to get the description of an object in the
>>>>>> inventory of prim.
>>>>>>> i looked into it and it was suprisingly easy to do, since
>>>>>>> there
>>>>>> is already a function to get the name.
>>>>>>> http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=5927
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Op maandag 12 maart 2012 schreef Justin Clark-Casey
>>>>>> (jjustincc at googlemail.com) het volgende:
>>>>>>>> There does seem to be no function to do this (it looks
>>>>>>>> like
>>>>>> it's done in SL by roundabout web queries).
>>>>>>>> It would be interesting to have something like an
>>>>>> osRequestInventoryData(string name, list rules) where rules
>>>>>> contains some constant like LANDMARK_REGION_NAME.
>>>>>>>> On 10/03/12 21:39, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
>>>>>>>>> That is interesting, but not enough….
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But the only thing I get seems to be the global (wold
>>>>>> coordinate) position of the object:
>>>>>>>>> like<256128.1, 256127.4, 27.73114>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Not even the region name, and in case of HG landmark, no
>>>>>> indication on the grid url
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Le 10 mars 2012 à 22:13, M.E. Verhagen a écrit :
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> the following lsl function can be used to extract some
>>>>>>>>>> data
>>>>>> out of landmaks:
>>>>>>>>>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlRequestInventoryData
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Op zaterdag 10 maart 2012 schreef Gudule Lapointe
>>>>>> (gudule at spekuloos.be<mailto:gudule at spekuloos.be>) het
>>>>>> volgende:
>>>>>>>>>>> Is there a way to read the coordinates of a landmark
>>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>> within a script?
>>>>>>>>>>> I made several flavors of blame gates and I would
>>>>>>>>>>> like to
>>>>>> be able to drop a landmark in the prim instead of encoding
>>>>>>>>>> the uri
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