[opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

[Andromeda Quonset]

Sighs.  I see you misunderstood.  Perhaps I have, too, in usage of 
the word "Resident".

In my post, where I referenced "Andromeda Resident", change that to 
"Andromeda DisplayName"

In a script that has been compiled to use a new function, presumably 
compiled under a 2.X viewer, when an AV that is logged-in under a 1.X 
viewer, and activates the script compiled under 2.X, will need to 
have results returned to him based on a 1.X compilation, and not a 
2.X compilation in order to not cause a runtime error.

I doubt I will be doing any scripting anytime soon in a Client 2 
environment, given the major issues I have with viewer, like the 
entire world being a 4 x 4 inch area to work from in the middle of my 
22" widescreen with great big blacked-out edges to fill-in around 
that 4 x 4 inch area.  And there is the issue of the script editor 
being seriously broken.  Can't edit scripts without a script 
editor.  And there is the issue of doing an uninstall of the 2.X 
client, and having it delete 5 years of chat dialog as it tidies up 
after itself.

Best thing as I see it is to not implement it.  Maybe in 2012 we can 
look revisit it.

At 04:54 PM 8/17/2010, you wrote:
>This is correct. Andromeda Quonset will be Andromeda Quonset forever.
>At some point, new residents won't be able to choose a last name -
>only these will be "Resident"
>
>No existing script function will return different results than it does
>today. New script functions are added for fetching/referencing Display
>Names.
>
>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Erik Anderson
><erikba at odysseus.anderson.name> wrote:
> > My interpretation of what was said is that the script using a 2.X viewer
> > would NOT say "Andromeda Resident", SL is just stating that users in the
> > future will not be asked for a last name when they sign up, all new users
> > after that point would have a last name of "Resident", which the 
> 2.X viewers
> > would likely hide.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Andromeda Quonset
> > <andromedaquonset at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It appears to me that if I create a script using viewer 1.X, it will
> >> show as being created by Andromeda Quonset.  It also appears to me
> >> that if I create the same script using a 2.X viewer, that it will say
> >> it was created by Andromeda Resident.
> >
> >
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