Notecards and Saving

Have a feature where we can save notecards and such to the hdd.

Rose Evans

copy/paste the contents of the notecard to notepad > save
works with scripts too!

YOUR hdd or SERVER hdd?

if your hard drive, copy paste my friend. (this also answers that other proposal about 'please give us the ability to print notecards').

if system hard drive that raises an issue with asset management. Inventory items are not stored on same physica computer as the in-world items. That is why they load so slowly and inconsistantly. Andsometimes force entire refreshing requests when viewing the inventory of an object because the server forgets if someone else MIGHT have altered the inventory.

Allowing saving to notecards would require the equivilant of a dataserver type action because the entire action does not happen in the sim where executing script resides. It requires inter sim communication which has to be handled by queued messages between the realevant servers.

The end result is that you would have no gaurentee of when the operation completed, and multiple queued write requests could theorhetically get handled out of order and scripts relying on said information to be explicite would have issues.

An alternative you can use is your script sending itself emails. You can compose the entire email at once and choose subject lines appropriate for the data you wish to save so that filters later used for reading can find the given data quickly. You have exact control over the format with assured fidelity. You can also parse the email later to read the info as needed and use a set of llOwnerSay() calls to transmit the info to the owner, or even an email itself aimed outside the SL server as the means of retreival of contents.

Which is a pain in the neck and if you are full screen, like I am, not really feasable, it takes for ever to redraw SL after Alt-Tab back in. Actually, Trillian stoled focus once (which is why I kill Trillian) and it froze up SL. So simple sweet and easy to click <Save to Disk> and point to a folder and hit Save and done. Later you can open the unicode text file with the Notecard to read and/or print for future reference.

Rose

Run in window mode with the window maximized. Switches are a tiny more effecient. Or go into graphics preferences and set your option for vram allocation one LESS than what your card has available. That way SL hasnt allocated the entire contents of your vram for itself and you dont have to wait for windows to do some process switches to regain control of the gfx buffers. Either solution works to solve that issue.

Still doesn't fix the other problem, sometimes selecting text doesn't plain work. Some times, in my experience, it goes 'zip' and it's all selected, other times it won't let me go past the first page then I got to do it page by page, other times it just won't let me at all. Plus <Right Click> doesn't bring up the edit commands, you have to be a computer user to know Ctrl-C is copy, and in my experience, that is an advanced command to *some* individuals. Let us make it super easy so all tech level people can save note cards and add a <Save To Disk> option, eh? That is all I am saying, let us make it easier on everyone by adding this option.

Rose

Oh, good one... I tried your suggestion about dropping down the vmemory and SL crashed twice in so many min. I changed it back and it's running smooth as glass. Well, as smooth as SL can run on an ATI Radeon 9600 w/ 128mb of vram. Anyone got any suggestions for the perfect video card for SL? Obviously ATI with 6.2 Catalyst (The latest off thier website) isn't running SL very well graphically. Well, ok, not perfect card, that would be 300$ or more but a good one that won't cost me a bundle. Might speed up other games as well, as I know Doom3 runs well until things get *busy* then it locks up and I get fragged.

Well you'd need at least 128vram dedicated to SL with 256mb vram on your card for it to work. I run the full 256 for SL on my GeForce 5700 LE without a hitch other than slow transitions between apps. I can drop SLs portion to 128 and SL itself runs a tiny slower (no crashes) but flipping between apps is back to normal. But you are right that SL can not function with under 128 vram for it. You just need a larger card. For what its worth there have been deals all over the net for the GeForce 6200s and some 6600s. The 62's have been $50usd roughly and 66 a notch higher. Could check those out maybe it will help (both with 256 vram). Hope you can get things working smooth.

I'd really love to have this thread reviewed again. After more than three years I have literally HUNDREDS of notecards that I'd prefer to keep on my local drive. Copying and pasting hundreds of notecards just isn't feasible. If it's do-able with textures I don't see why not with simple text.

Thanks!
Gio