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Viewing websites in Second Life

Andryn Vaher
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03-27-2009 08:05
Is it possible to view more than one website in Second Life at one time?

So far I am pretty familiar with how the parcel media function works and how you can use that to view websites as textures on objects. What I am looking to do is to be able to present multiple web pages in the form of a slide presentation.
For example, if an avatar clicked on "button 1" then a certain web page would display.
When they clicked on "button 2" a different web page would display, and so on.

If anyone has any ideas or if anyone has some example scripts that would help me a lot.
Thanks
Rolig Loon
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03-27-2009 08:32
Yes, it's possible. Use Bucky Barkley's VideoMon, or at least go see a demo at .
Johan Laurasia
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03-27-2009 11:29
I'm not sure of the cost of the VideoMon system, but a 'cheaper' route would be to create sub-parcels for each display object, and set the media url for each parcel separately. That will work, although limit your options a bit.
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Rolig Loon
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03-27-2009 11:56
I feel like a shill for Bucky's device..... :p It has been free for use by educators and non-profits for quite a while, and it's about to be released under a Creative Commons license. The nice thing is that all you have to do is write a simple configuration notecard, pop it into the device, and your viewing public can choose(using a dialog screen) which one from an essentially unlimted set of videos to watch. A couple of dozen people in the parcel can watch videos at the same time, each one seeing only what she/he has selected. You DO have to deed the device to the parcel, and all of your videos DO have to be viewable in Quicktime format. You'll have to talk to Bucky about the script itself.......
ElQ Homewood
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03-27-2009 13:32
It's really not hard to do. Deed the obejct, use the llDialog to make page choices, and change the parcel media URL in the listen.
DoteDote Edison
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03-27-2009 17:06
From: Rolig Loon
I feel like a shill for Bucky's device..... :p It has been free for use by educators and non-profits for quite a while, and it's about to be released under a Creative Commons license. The nice thing is that all you have to do is write a simple configuration notecard, pop it into the device, and your viewing public can choose(using a dialog screen) which one from an essentially unlimted set of videos to watch. A couple of dozen people in the parcel can watch videos at the same time, each one seeing only what she/he has selected. You DO have to deed the device to the parcel, and all of your videos DO have to be viewable in Quicktime format. You'll have to talk to Bucky about the script itself.......
Rolig, maybe you're too eager to be a shill. The person above isn't interested in showing videos. So your advertisement of the product is irrelevant.

Besides, this is a scripting tips forum. People are generally here to learn how to do things themselves. The question was; can multiple website be shown at the same time and how to show a slideshow of web pages on a prim (allowing the user to choose which page is shown via buttons).

A simple method to allow users to choose the website they see is to paste a URL into the description of each button... then use a script in those buttons to set the parcel URL.

default {
touch_start(integer num) {
llParcelMediaCommandList([PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_URL, llGetObjectDesc(), PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_TYPE, "text/html", PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_PLAY]);
}
}

Users can only view one media stream (website) at time. Although, two users on the same parcel can view separate streams. Technically, an external server could encode two or more webpages into a single video stream... and your SL script could split that stream onto multiple prims... allowing a single user to view multiple pages at the same time.
Rolig Loon
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03-27-2009 17:13
From: DoteDote Edison
Rolig, maybe you're too eager to be a shill. The person above isn't interested in showing videos. So your advertisement of the product is irrelevant.

Besides, this is a scripting tips forum. People are generally here to learn how to do things themselves. The question was; can multiple website be shown at the same time and how to show a slideshow of web pages on a prim (allowing the user to choose which page is shown via buttons).
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Sorry. It wasn't intended as an advertizement but as an illustration that a version of the problem had been solved elsewhere. Still, I apologize for having veered from the OP's basic question with my enthusiasm. Your response is, of course, quite correct.