Monomania

So here's the deal: I press the 'New Script' button in the 'Contents' tab, start to work on a script and, after maybe a day or two spent slamming my head off a brick wall, I manage to get the "Compile successful! Save complete" message.

The little 'Mono' box is checked and everything, which makes me extra happy since I'm planning to use the script over and over again and any number of copies of that script will use the same amount of sim resources. Right?

So I drag a copy into 'My Inventory' but what the heck!? I forgot to add llShout(0, "Woot! Woot! It works!!" so I open the 'My Inventory' copy, make the vital correction and replace the original script in the object with this much more functional and informative version.

I open this new version in the object, just to check the correction is there, and find the 'Mono' box isn't checked anymore!?

Not to worry, least said, soonest mended, I say to myself as I check the 'Mono' box and recompile the script - just to be sure - before dragging another copy back to 'My Inventory'. There's no need to correct this version so I rez a new object in-world and drag the script into it. When I open this version, however, I see that the 'Mono' box is still checked.

So I'd like to know was the first version of my script recompiled in LSL when I corrected and saved it again in 'My Inventory'?

Because scripts in your inventory cannot be compiled to Mono, only scripts in objects can and it's freaking annoying as hell. There's a technical reason why this is the case and I'm sure someone will be along shortly to inform us of it.

Compiling code in an objects inventory has the two options: mono and NOT mono; Mono is default. Compiling code in inventory ( not an objects inventory ) is NOT in mono. For all I know and that was what you verified, no?
Edit: Now I think I understand the question
If you compile the code in Mono in an object and drag it to your inventory it will still be mono when you drag it back on other objects. Only when you compile in your inventory that is spoiled.

Thanks for confirming that, folks. Basically, we need to edit and save a script in an object if we want to maintain it as a 'Mono' compilation. It's ok to store it in 'My Inventory' but it shouldn't be edited there if it is important to maintain the 'Mono' compilation.

Sheesh.

Hi! Greenlife Emerald compiles inventory scripts to Mono so I run that.

Thanks for that, Cerise. I wonder why the official releases don't do this?

I think not all the Lindens know how the new compiler works. It was was a client function and now it is a server function. We need the right Lindens to see the request!

VWR-8827 has a patch! I hope that it is added.

and just for fun, i wrote a function that tells you what VM a script is running under...

integer isLSO(){
  return (llToLower( "Ü" ) == "Ü");
}

You got me there (which isn't hard - like fooling Homer Simpson with a rubber doughnut). How does the conversion of U diaeresis to lower case show the version?

LSO operates in the ascii character range, MONO in the UTF. LL has stated they have no intention of updating that behavior for LSO... so conversion fails in LSO, but succeeds in MONO... other characters would work too... the relevant jira is https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-3760

Very clever. Don't ya just luv Unicode?

You can compile scripts in inventory?? Cool.

While LSL does not use all the features that Mono supports, allowing already compiled scripts to be uploaded would leave all Mono features open to attack; not just the ones that LSL uses. Currently LL is waiting on the Mono code verifier to be completed and thoroughly tested, when that happens they can verify the integrity of uploaded scripts to ensure they won't try and root the system.

Very very off topic, but can anyone else post a topic here? it wont let me, so im just posing in another thread, sorry I get http://www.homepagez.org/gfxhome/untitled.bmp when i try to post a topic, in firefox too.

see this jira entries (and the related entries, I'll assume that's a "Not Found" message) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-917

Sometimes the forums break.

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Here is another way to determine the VM at runtime.

integer isLSO(){
  return llGetListEntryType((list)((key)"")) & 1;
}

integer isMono(){
  return llGetListEntryType((list)((key)"")) >> 2;
}

This relies upon SVC-1710.
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1710

hah I forgot all about that one...I remember when it popped up, but missed the "wont finish"

must test speed and byte size soon