[Opensim-users] one more Difference between opensim and SL timers

Sat Sep 1 14:01:47 UTC 2012

This is a perfect example of why it's good to talk about observations
before rushing to mantis or the opensim source code ;)

Well played all :)

Cheers
James

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Dr Ramesh Ramloll <r.ramloll at gmail.com>wrote:

> Correct Melanie. I just found that the code in my last post does work the
> same way.
> So the difference in timer behavior in my actual code must lie else where.
> Will try to find it.
> Ha and I thought I found the difference because when I explicitly stopped
> the timer on_entry
> in my actual code in opensim, that difference disappeared.
>
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
>
>> This is correct behavior and also happens in SL. The timer is a
>> property of the script and when you rez the prim again, on_rez fires
>> but state_entry does NOT. This is correct and by design. It mirrors
>> what SL does. The script is already in state default and the timer
>> is still running from the touch before it was taken.
>>
>> Some people are user to OpenSim's ages-old behavior of resetting
>> scrits on rez. That behavior has been gone for a long time now and
>> we're correctly duplicating SL's state persistence behavior.
>>
>> Melanie
>>
>> On 01/09/2012 02:23, Dr Ramesh Ramloll wrote:
>> > Hey Justin,
>> > This can be reproduced with this script. Rez object, touch to start it,
>> > then take it back to inventory, then rez again. Counter will continue
>> to be
>> > incremented and printed on screen. And I have to apologize here for not
>> > submitting a report. Too tired :) really, not an excuse or anything.
>> Sorry.
>> >
>> > integer counter;
>> > default
>> > {
>> >     state_entry()
>> >     {
>> >
>> >     }
>> >     touch_start(integer flag){
>> >         llSetTimerEvent(0.5);
>> >     }
>> >
>> >     timer()
>> >     {
>> >        ++counter;
>> >        llSay(0,(string)counter);
>> >     }
>> > }
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
>> > jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> That is surprising because the code does remove timer events when a
>> script
>> >> is removed.  The best course of action would be to file a bug with the
>> >> exact steps to reproduce the problem.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 31/08/12 21:01, Dr Ramesh Ramloll wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Just thought I put this out there. I just noticed that in opensim,
>> timers
>> >>> in objects are not stopped when they are
>> >>> removed.  So I had to use llSetTimerEvent(0); in state_entry() to stop
>> >>> the clock ... explicitly on object's entry. Guess
>> >>> starting a timer in an object need to be viewed similar llSetText ...
>> >>> Rather unexpected.
>> >>>
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