Writing to a Notecard

Can a script write to a Notecard? Or any other way to persistantly save text that can be reaccessed later.

Nope.

Also scripts can't read complex notecards (those which contain anything other than plain text).

No, and I can't think of any bloody good reason why not!

The only thing I can think of is that maybe they are worried that the asshat sever will drown in a sea of notecards if we are allowed to do this.

That's it exactly Nogard. The Asset server is already overburdened with object data, which if you think about it, each object is just a few parameters to keep up with. Compare that to the complexity of a full notecard.

As things are now, WriteToNotecard would be fairly undoable.

However, you might consider .xml and an outside website for data storage?

Or, you can use one of the many hacks - changing an attribute of a prim to store the data you need. We did just get a WriteDescription function - a good amount of text can be stored there. The name's another. If you get creative, you can store data in Color or Size vectors.

Of course, all those hacks require a prim to alter, but, the data should be persistent, even across a sim crash that might reset variables in a normal script.

XML is great, but you have to initiate your communication from the remote server, and it really seems kludgy when implemented... Mind you, i've only messed with it a little bit, but man what a pain in the ass just to securly store some variables without having to worry about my script being reset. Storing info in prims is what i have resorted to, which seems less than elegant, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

About initiating communication from the server:
There are actually three different methods of implementing remote data storage.
You can either poll objects for requests to the server, (not recommended)
You can email out from SL to request XMLRPC polling from the server, which then polls until the object sends an email asking the server to stop.
Or you can go the pure email route.

There arent many nice interfaces out there for email RPC though, so you might be left in the dark as to exactly what you need to set it up. For email RPC I use the JavaMail api, and set it to periodically check an email account I set up purely for SL script emails.

==Chris