Second Life Map Api

Sorry, I was needlessly vague.

I know how to form the URL and the appropriate HTML. (I nearly forgot you needed the region name, but it doesn't matter; I can hardcode that, since I only care about the sim where my stuff is for the tinkering I'm doing right now.)

My question is more "assuming I have a secondlife URL, how do I make javascript open that URL, instead of popping up an alert". I'm checking other sites' source for examples, but haven't found it yet.

BTW, Point to Point teleporting is already released.


Edit: As far as I can tell, it would be something like this:

// creates a function that we will bind to the double click action
var doubleClickHandlerFunction = function(x,y) {
// Pretend I calculate the local X and Y here
document.location.href = "secondlife://my_sim/" + local_x + "/" + local_y;
};

Thank you! This is great

Question: Is this optimized for zooming to the sim level? As in - it only loads the sim displayed?

Very Cool Bo!
And i'm looking forward to the other api's you mentioned. =)

This is what I was attempting to do.

The blue rectangle represents the southwest corner, the roundish pale grey blob is the northeast. Be careful along the edges. If you miss, it'll still work, but you'll end up in that relative position in Acontia ... that is, clicking in the east border of Emmelia (the sim to the west) puts you on the East border of Acontia instead. Zooming is left on mostly for context.

Hello Everyone,

I've created a much easier way to link to inworld now. Simple use the function:

gotoSLURL(Float x, Float y)

You can see an example and read the documenation here:

http://secondlife.com/apps/services/mapapi/index.html#adv_goto

Very cool!

Any thoughts on doing the opposite?

getXYPoints(slurl)

eg

getXYPoints("secondlife://boardman/100/100"

Just a notice, the gotoSLURL feature seemed not to play well with IE, so we are temporarily disabling it. It'll make a post when its reenabled.

Without the ability to get the necessary map coordinates based upon entering a sim name and x,y coordinates, it makes it very difficult to do any dynamic map generation. A lookup function that could be given a sim name and the 0-255 x/y coordinates would be very useful.

Cristiano. I'll take in consideration your request for a lookup function to go from region name > sl coordinate

As for the gotoSLURL function, it is now working in all supported browsers. Look to my previous post on how to use it.

Can we get a mouse-over callback for markers? (Hehe.)

Hi Adam, its possible to do this callback. I'm guessing you want to show some preview of the marker before its clicked?

Bingo.

*Clicks stopwatch*

OK, I make it ... eight hours. Is that a record for shortest time until a resident creation was rendered obsolete?

I demand compensation!

Hey Adam, I've added the hooks you've requested. Read about it here:

http://secondlife.com/apps/services/mapapi/index.html#adv_marker_bind

To accommodate the new features, the Marker constructor has changed slightly. Good luck making your apps, note I will be away for the next week but I'll keep my ears open for more improvements to the api.

More fun with mapping

Some notes:

* In order to overlay something across the entire map (a fancy frame, for example), simply make an image of the appropriate size (whatever size you set in the style section), and set a marker at the center of the viewport using that image.

That's pretty easy when the map center never changes. I'm guessing you would need to update this marker when the user pans, clicks, or drags the map. You could probably do the first two in the custom pan control functions or the click handler respectively. I'm not sure if you could do it with dragging the map at all.

* In order to overlay something on a sim like the parcel owner map I have here, you need an overlay image for each zoom level you are concerned with (sims are 256 x 256 at the closest zoom). I didn't bother making more than one, since I turned off zoom.

* The order of the addMarker calls determines their layering. So for a parcel overlay like mine, you want to add the overlay before the actual markers.

* Since I now use gotoSLURL, you can click outside the borders of Acontia and it will wind up working properly. I still calculate the local coordinates myself so I can display them in the alert.


Try loading this page in two different browsers (Firefox and IE in my case). If you then open SL using one browser, refreshing that same browser will open the in-client map. Refreshing the other browser will not open the in-client map (at least not always).

Since the in-client map tends to kill my internet, I'd prefer if this were not the case (I suspect it's how SL handles the secondlife URL when it's already open, but I'm not sure why that URL is being loaded when the page refreshes, yet only on the browser you loaded SL from.)

Hey Dyne, your overlay looks very cool. I look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future. About the refreshing quirks, I'll definitely look into this when I have the chance.

Thanks.

I've no idea what I'll cook up; I've used other languages but I'm figuring out Javascript as I go, obviously, and I don't really know what it can do aside from stuff I've seen on other pages over the years. This API is the first thing I've seen that has made me want to learn it.

Oh, I should point out that the sim name is not part of the parcel overlay. Here are the images if you don't feel like looking in the source for their filenames.

Sim name

Overlay

That overlay is not even a little bit dynamically generated. I just flew around the sim seeing who owned what. (I actually planned to use it as part an in-world landmark map of the sim.)

Bo, i was wondering, is a more advanced Transaction History in the pipeline for the foreseeable future?

heheheh you've raised the bar, Bo.

Yes, but let's not redirect this thread.

Cheers,
Lawrence