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Robins Hermano
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09-14-2008 09:58
Question, I mistakingly had students complete a HW assignment using notecards. My intention was to have a script send me an email with the students assignments so I could grade outside of SL. My script works, finally, but I've run into a wall the the 255 character limitation that llllGetNotecardLine seems to have.
Anyone know of anyway around this, or a different method I might use for reading the information off of notecards?
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Winter Ventura
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09-14-2008 10:01
Is there some reason they can't just send you an email directly?
I mean, I assume these people all have access to a computer.
Similarly, why not have them just send you the notecards with their name on the top line. Then you just copy/paste the contents of the notecard, and email that to yourself.
Sure it's a little labor intensive, but it can't be harder than uploading 12 textures and making 36 different shirts, jackets and undershirts in 12 colours.
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Lear Cale
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09-14-2008 11:58
Why is the 255-character limit a problem?
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Robins Hermano
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09-17-2008 08:40
Since the HW is already done, no they can't e-mail it to me now. Just trying to figure out a good way to get the information already in SL.
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Strife Onizuka
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09-17-2008 20:55
Sadly there is no way around the 255 byte limit (it's bytes, not characters fyi). I've been meaning to harass them about increasing that to something more reasonable like 1024.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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09-17-2008 21:06
If I am reading this right you have a bunch of notecards in your inventory and you want to have the text outside of SL.
Open each notecard, highlight the text, copy the text with Control C, run notepad, create a file, and paste the text into the file with Control V. Save with an apropriate name. Repeat as needed. Adjust instructions as needed depending on your operating system.
If the students still have the notecards in their inventory, they can open the notecard, highlight and copy the text, paste the text into a text file, and email the file to you, or just past the text directly into the email program of their choice.
There are programs that are supposed to save notecards. I think there's one called SL My Inventory Viewer that might be able to do that.
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Hewee Zetkin
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09-17-2008 21:11
But for future assignments...you might want to give them a script that they can use to check their own notecards and warn them if any lines are longer than 254 characters. Hmm. Maybe with some encoding to test byte sizes if you expect non-ASCII characters (bytes? really?!). If you need to you could allow some kind of escape, like a backslash (\) at the end of a line, to get your own script to concatenate lines before sending the e-mail. Oh, and keep in mind the limit on e-mail size (4096 characters, or is that also bytes?) too!  Good luck!  |