Archive for January, 2009

I <3 Second Life Gestures

Gestures are Awesome.

I am working on a chat app like many other apps in SL and was having the issue of user’s using wrong channel to comm with me.  So a friend did a little search and found one of those JRA posts requesting a feature that lets you set the channel you are chatting on and let it remain between requests.  In the posted responses, one inventive chap posted that making a simple Gesture like /? and hooking it to the channel you chat (/1234) on works nicely. (https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1330)

1 drawback i’ve found is found in all of Second Life material, once its out you can’t update them easily.  So before I’m going to implement the gesture for real, I need to make my channel nearly hardcoded. (unless i can put some code in a gesture that lets it read a notecard or something, but i doubt it.) This is mega rambly at this point, but If you come across a similar problem, Gestures may save the day.

John – Giggy Karu

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Second Life Garbage Collection

I’ve done a little experimenting with my dev code and i’m realizing that once a list is populated, the space is never cleared.  It appears to reuse the space but it never frees it back to the script for use somewhere else. There does seem to be some long standing existence growth that kinda sucks too.

Has anyone figured out how to shrink lists after they aren’t needed back to null?

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