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

[dilly dobbs]

*'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.'*
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The issue above is most likely a display driver issue with your current
configuration. I wouldn't think that this is an issue with the 2.X platform.




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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Andromeda Quonset <
andromedaquonset at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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