Where do you do your scripting? In SL or Offline in a Editor?

Where does the majority of your scripting take place?

Do you sit inside SL and script or do you do it offline using an editor of some sorts?

I generally fiddle around with other peoples scripts, cross my fingers click my heels three times and hope what I cannibalised works in sl....

that doesnt mean to say I wouldnt have a go outside sl if I knew the first thing about this technical stuff.......

heavens getting a door to work in sl takes a masters degree in computer science

I do my scripting work almost exclusively offline, and have done so for almost two years now. I have a hard time understanding why anyone would want to do any non-trivial script work in-world, as it's so painful and non-productive compared to offline editing.

The only time I do any online scripting is when I need to quickly iterate something to test out some specific values.

Aquamacs and xlsl-mode, mostly. It's a pain to shuffle text between programs, but the built-in editor is bad enough that it's worth the trouble. The fancier IDE-type tools out there weren't as interesting in practice as they initially looked. The w-hat lint is sometimes interesting to look at but it throws up too many false positives.

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Notepad, or noteTab(when I move it over from my old Comp) then test it inword to check it compiles... yes I should just use and editor, which could check most of that... but I used notepad for everything from writing webpages/css/jscript to pre-writing code for other languages... nice small footprint, I can save my work in a single format, and don't have the distraction of tons of features I don't really use or need for the main portion of the work.

ETA: or right here on the forums, since I added all the keywords to my spellchecker =)

100% offline even when logged in. Personalized copy of Scite with auto complete and much more including ability to test the script with LSLEditor built in.

I write 99.9% offline in 'NoteTab Light'. I compile and debug inworld.

Almost exclusively in-world. The editor is pretty sad, although at this point the only thing I really miss is a split-window view. I gladly put up with that in exchange for the immediate gratification of a code-test-debug cycle measured in seconds.

(It might have been different for me if I'd found a passable lsl mode for emacs when I started out, but too late now.)

( As an old Forth hand, I think y'all are SPOILED by this newfangled syntax highlighting. Give me a command line editor any day. ) ok

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Teco

0JII never really got used to Teco.^M^J$$

It's not the syntax highlighting, it's the fact that I typo and also cat'n speel worth a damn.

Offline, lsleditor, final debug inworld.

/grumbles about lsleditor not being open source so we can't keep it up to date.
Are you saying there IS an emacs mode for lsl???
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Play Scrabble with the editor of an Encyclopedia for a few years and you'll find your spelling improves amazingly.

I'll assume you have yours setup to higlight code and scellcheck same I? =)

damn useful program that one although annoying on the difference between regular and pro... gain some features, lose others =/

I do all of my scripting in-world for one reason mostly, instant feedback on code changes. I can try them, tweak them, and get feedback on my changes quickly.

Otherwise I would be doing this all day: Write code, log in, try it, log off, write more code, log in, try it, log off, write more code...

It's just not productive to me to code offline

Darien: lsleditor is more than an editor, it emulates SL so that you can run code in it. The emulation is not perfect, and of course you cannot see objects moving, but I find running in lsleditor catches all syntax errors (except for the newest commands), all bugs in listen/touch driven scripts (you can touch and chat in the editor's run mode), and of course all bugs in logic. It tells you when and where the script rezzes objects, etc..

It can run sets of scripts as well, so that linkmessaging can be debugged.
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Usually offline in vi(m) for examples and help on these forums (which lately has been most of my scripting). When I'm online I probably spend about half my time in vi and half in the SL script editor (it is easier to make quick changes there to fix defects while testing). I do a lot of copy/paste between the two. Usually I don't actually persist the scripts offline, though for certain templates and important scripts sometimes I do.

I didn't know it could handle sets of scripts, that i'll have to look into. But considering some of my items have 30-50 scripts that work together, I'm still not sure it's feasable.

As well, I deal with animation timing, and physical motion issues which I don't expect will ever be simulated offline. And don't get me started on HTTP related scripting, which is my largest focus right now.

I'm not faulting people who do offline, i'm just saying it's not very appealing from my perspective and for what I do.

HTTP or XML-RPC can be tested. With auto suggestion, it is OMG fast to actually write the scripts.

Example: type "def" and a drop down box shows "default", click on it and it will correctly finish "default" but also correctly indent the opening and closing brackets and place the cursor for your next entry.

Keyboard combination of ctrl, shift, a, loads the script into clipboard and ready to paste in world.

eh..you guys ARE spoiled with these fancy editors lol...I do 99% of my scripting online, the editor doesn't bother me at all, if I was offline, I'd use my #1 editor, Notepad. I've just used it for so many years for so many things, and I still don't use an editor for css, php, html, xml, javascript, or anything else either, come to think of it so maybe I'm just old LOL..

Highlight code? LOL mine is NoteTab Light v4.95. It is steam powered

Allegedly. http://lsl-mode.googlecode.com/files/xlsl-mode_1.5.4.el -- about which I know nothing, but just googled for it after reading Viktoria's post in this thread. If my emacs install were a little less dusty, I'd give it a try.

Offline scripting helper programs are nice, but I do alot of saving/checking/re-editing that offline editors can't do.