Two questions about saving variables

A little new to scripting so these might be obvious if I had a bit more experience. In any case, let's say I'm making a vehicle and I want it to save certain variables from use to use, so that each time I take it out of my pack, it already knows these settings.

1. Can I set a variable that will be remembered even after the item is taken back into my inventory and placed on the ground again? Can't be a constant, must be a variable.

2. I've seen scripts which read data from a notecard (although not the details). Can a script write to a notecard which resides on the object?

1. Yes. When an object is taken into inventory, its scripts are frozen at their current state, with vairables included. Once it's placed into the world again, the script if unfrozen. For instance, if you have a counter that ticks every second and stores in a variable... the counter will resume where it left off on re-rez - barring any on_rez() event that resets the script.

2. No, but it can write to the object's description line, or even the prim names. Some people use this trick to store data (writing to child prim descriptions.)

1) No problem - just define the variable in the area above the beginning of the default state.

2) Not possible - LL has decided that they will not allow scripted creation of assets, and notecards are assets.

- Jon

thanks for the quick replies!