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