KDE File Dialog for SL

This is a hack that adds a file open dialog to SL. Only works for images so far, but that can be fixed.

Full explanation on my blog, and here's the source. Consider it to be GPL licensed.

I'll be improving this further

Usage:

First, to compile this you need a compiler and the headers for the APR library.

Now, compile it, then edit the secondlife script, and add:

LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/upload_hook.so

right before this line:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="`pwd`"/lib:"${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin $@ 2>&1 | (tee lastrun.log || cat)

You also need to put sl_upload.sh in your home directory and make it executable.

Thanks for the work!

for anyone else running ubuntu without kde, here's how I got this to run:

install build-essential (duh)
install libapr0-dev (contains header files that this script uses)
install kdebase-bin (for kdialog)
install imagemagick (for convert)

add the following line to the secondlife script: export LD_PRELOAD=/full/path/to/upload_hook.so
make sl_upload.sh executable

Causes my SL client to freeze for several seconds when I try to upload, though. This may be the SL clients fault, which I'm leaning towards.

That's normal. What it does is intercept the attempt to open the file, and show a dialog. So SL will remain frozen until the script ends running. The delay after upload you're seeing is probably due to convert.

Millions beat me to the punch about the build dependencies for this one.

For Gnome-based distro users who don't want to use KDE dependencies (kdebase-bin was going to be ~23 megabyte download for me on Ubuntu 6.10 beta), the following works quite well. Might run a bit quicker than invoking kdialog in a Gnome environment too.

GPL, of course, as it descends from Dale's code.

sl_upload.sh:

file=$1
echo File: $1
selected=`zenity --title="Choose a file to upload..." --file-selection  --directory="~"`
echo Selected: ${selected}

rm -f "${file}"
convert "${selected}" "${file}"

You'll have to install zenity if your distro hasn't installed it by default.

With further testing of this on the Upload Image dialog, I've noticed something. If anyone else hasn't seen this, I'll assume it's a consequence of my Zenity substitution:

When uploading an image, I have to select the file twice:

Once to generate the nice preview window for SL where you put in the name and description.

Again after hitting the "Upload (L$10)" button, presumably to actually upload the file.

It's a bit tricky if you accidentally pick the wrong file that second time around.

Actually, that's a bug due to lack of testing ^_^;;

This is rather raw still. I'm working on improvements, such as support for zenity, and handling of sounds and animations. I've already got a script that will convert sounds to the format SL likes.

BTW, does the Linux client have bulk uploads? And where does it expect that data?

Ok, I released a new version.
Here's the source.

This version also handles sounds (sox required), and .bhv files (not tested). It fixes the problem with the dialog showing up multiple times, supports Zenity, and is easier to install. Just run 'make', and do what it says.

Dale, next time I see you in-world I want to kiss you!

Brilliant!

Well, I'm at Luskwood right now


Good to know people like it

New version released.

This one should be friendlier, and if kdialog is used, will remember the last directory chosen for each file type. Full changelog