(Temporary?) Solution to WriteNotecardLine()

I get the impression when LL talks about how badly coded Notecards are that it has something to do with the fact that they can contain anything from Landmarks to Objects within them and the like...

So why not, until LL can get around to recoding the entire concept of Notecards, give scripters something simpler? A simple text document?

It's a plaintext object that only holds text, and nothing else.

I'm sure that's actually simpler than trying to recode the equivilent of a text-based datacube.

This sort of solution can either be temporary, or if LL just doesn't feel like recoding Notecards -ever-, can be a permanent solution.

And if Notecards are ever re-worked, the existing text-objects could simply be copied over into Notecards once the solution is complete.

I believe, and I may be totally wrong here, that the difficulty in implementing a llWriteNotcardLine() stems from the fact that every time a notecard is modified it is essentially a new and different notecard with a new UUID.

-Code

I think LL should give scripts the ability to store variables in an alternative memory space that can be accessed from different scripts in the same object.

llSetObjectStorageFloat()
llGetObjectStorageFloat()
llSetObjectStorageInt()
llGetObjectStorageInt()
llSetObjectStorageList()
llGetObjectStorageList()
&c

==Chris

I agree with chris, persistent script variables would be a lot simpler to implement, and would be an acceptible interim solution. These variables could be script globals, or object globals (as chris describes), it wouldn't make a big difference, so long as the variables maintained their value for the lifetime of the object.