Back again, with a question about lists

i'am I am not sure if this is the correct area to post this question in, but I am going to as I think it relates to scripting. I am trying to make a list of people (contacts) from the calling cardes. Thing is, how do I go about doing such? and how do I implememnt it into a script?

You cannot interact with your inventory from a script at all, other than by giving objects or folders to an avatar. You would have to compile such a list of people manually.

Okay, that makes since. Where could I find a GOOD tutorial for the manually making a list of contacts?

What I'd do is to select each calling card individually, right-click it, select rename, copy the name, and then paste it into whatever list I was compiling - but my calling card folder is quite small. I don't know of any easier or cleverer method than this, nor can I think of any good tutorials that teach you how to do this. Having said that, perhaps taking a screen-shot of your calling card folder and using an OCR program to convert that to text would save time and effort if the list is large enough.

Hi, i don't think you could manipulate the calling cards to get the list. Calling card is not an existing valid inventory type in LSL. All scripts have to run in an object's content and it's a SL limitation that you can't drag and drop calling cards into object's content.

However, though, you could always write the names on a notecard and use a notecard reader or similar to get the names onto a list.

I am thinking that the OP is referring to "lists" in general. If she means the LSL data-type list, then I'd use the copy/paste or OCR method to create a notecard, which could be then be read by a script. (Actually, I'd probably copy/paste the names directly into a list declaration - my calling card folder is small.)

The question I would ask is how do you want to use this information? Inputs and Outputs. You have contact information as input... what do you want as an output? Are you thinking about having a HUD with a contact database? Do you want to sort thru specific information about your contacts? If you just want a general list, the folder in your inventory is already doing that for you.