[Opensim-users] Fucntion to read a landmark

[James Hughes]

Yep, nice. At first look I thought that it would only pickup the value 
on a standalone, but I had forgotten that we have that in OpenSim.ini as 
well. Nice addition.

-BlueWall

On 03/13/2012 07:22 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
> 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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