[Opensim-users] Fucntion to read a landmark

Wed Mar 14 02:20:31 UTC 2012

Yes, Gatekeeper is what we were after, but didn't have the terminology 
right. We should depreciate it.

-BlueWall

On 03/13/2012 10:03 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
> The other one osGetGridHomeURI shouldn't really exist. It doesn't make
> sense. Only users have HomeURIs; simulators have Gatekeepers.
>
> On 3/13/2012 5:50 PM, James Hughes wrote:
>> 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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