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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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05-25-2004 07:15
From: someone Originally posted by Alondria LeFay
To update vendor price lists, etc. there is much simpler and quicker ways to do this. Since a script can read a notecard by reference, all you need is to get the UUID of the price notecard to the 50 vendors around the world, which is much simpler than physically giving the object the notecard. Well, yeah. It wasn't a good example cuz I couldn't really think of a decent one. But my point still stands... it's not some kind of sinister spamming device!  And actually, I didnt realise that you could do the same with a notecard for some reason. Doh. I've done it with sounds and textures - it just didnt cross my mind to do it with a notecard. |
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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05-25-2004 09:33
Alondria, (Or anyone, really  ) This prolly isnt really the place to ask, and I apologise to Azelda (although I'm keeping yer thread prominent!) I've just been playing with the notecard by key functionality, and I'm afraid I can't really see how you would do it. Reason being, any notecard you make any alterations to gets itself a brand new UUID. So how would you code your vendor to read a keyed notecard if you don't know the key til after you've written it? And if I'm not overlooking something, then that just goes to show that Azelda's service is a good idea and that my previous example stands  Edit: Ok. I can think of a way you could use it if you wanted to run an email gateway so all your objects could converse with a central repository but ... bleh... I'd sooner pay Azelda! |
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Alondria LeFay
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Join date: 2 May 2003
Posts: 725
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05-25-2004 19:39
From: someone Originally posted by Kris Ritter
I've just been playing with the notecard by key functionality, and I'm afraid I can't really see how you would do it.
Reason being, any notecard you make any alterations to gets itself a brand new UUID.
So how would you code your vendor to read a keyed notecard if you don't know the key til after you've written it?
pay Azelda! Simple, llEmail() it to the vendor. Basically have a central server somewhere that contains a list of all the UUID's of the vendors. When you update a notecard, drop it into the server. The server then emails the new UUID to all the vendors within it's list. The vendors periodically check for email and when they receive it change the UUID it is pulling the list data from. |
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Azelda Garcia
Azelda Garcia
Join date: 3 Nov 2003
Posts: 819
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05-31-2004 06:09
For Help Stations accessing the notecard by key isnt enough. You need an actual notecard within the Help Station object.
Azelda
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