Two Scripts Needed - Will Pay L$

First script:

"Bulletin Board" type system. In this script, there will be one object. Users of a certain group can drag Notecards with text into the object. The script will read these, and add these to a main Notecard saved in the object. Then, when ANYONE clicks the object, it will give them a notecard with all the current information. New entries need to descend from newer on top to older on the bottom. Also, a timestamp of the post and a note of who the poster was will be required. This is going to be used as a simple Newspaper publishing system.

Second script:

Working notepad script. In this script, there will be one object. It is a wearable item. When the wearer clicks on the item, it will create a new Notecard. They will be able to save text in this Notecard and it will be saved inside the object. Later, the owner can pull the Notecards out of the notepad in order to use the first script proposed above.

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Can negotiate prices. You retain the right to resell the scripts. I will need full permissions for the scripts for modification.

Scripts can't create or write to notecards. It's unlikely that this will ever change.

I thought they could write to Notecards. Hmm.

Well then, perhaps without Notecards, just using script variables to do the same jobs.

LSL can still read and parse text from Notecards though, correct?

Nope. LL doesn't want scripts to be able to create assets - it's be just too easy to abuse.


Could do that but scripts are pretty (severly) limited in memory. How much text are we talking about here? A few lines? A few hundred? A few thousand?


Yep. There's a 0.1 second delay any time you try to read a notecard line, though. Again, keeps the asset servers from being pounded on too hard. There's ways around that (10 scripts in the object, each reading a different line) but that's not playing nice.

Well perhaps the system I suggested isn't too feasible then, a shame.

Do you have any ideas (anyone) that could make a system for a newspaper type system? The notepad is superfluous, but a group-publishing system would be neat.

Guess it depends on how much you want to put into it..

You could go back to your original plan but instead of having the script concatenate the notecards, have somebody manually do it. Maybe not convenient but not too horrible.

Or the scripts could use some kind of off-world storage - a web server. The script could send authorized (group) notecards off to the server and have the server bundle it all up and send it back to non-group people touching it. Again, a script can't create a notecard dynamically so it would come out as chat text or somebody would have to make it into a notecard manually.

Or you could make a bot. Bots can do pretty much whatever they want but you'd need to have it logged in and running pretty much all the time..

full disclosure edit: this isn't an area I have a ton of experience in.. I *know* that scripts can't create/write-to notecards but somebody else may have other ideas that you can use and that are a lot easier than what I've said.

One way would be to allow notecards to be dropped, as you said, individually into an object. When someone clicks on the object, they could either get a menu, or an object (a "newspaper" that when they click on it, they get a menu.

The menu would list "headlines", generated dynamically from the notecards. As the user selects a headline from the menu, it displays the text. The menu for an object given to the user could also keep track of read vs unread, and even expire (delete) old articles.

or if it were a hud it could have even longer headlines you could click on...