[sldev] Possible to distinguish client versions via LSL?

Erik Anderson odysseus654 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 17:51:07 PDT 2007


Lol, I'm not convinced that LSL has any way of knowing that there is
actually a viewer on the other side of that avatar...

On 4/5/07, Tobias Lang <tlang303 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Yes, the junk other people see is the point. Would be nice to prevent any
> script actions if it is dealing with an unsupported client.
> In the end a simple LLGetViewerVersion() would be nice...
> -Tobias
>
> Dale Glass wrote:
>
> В сообщении от 5 апреля 2007 22:18 Tobias Lang написал(a):
>
>  is it possible to distinguish versions of SL viewers in LSL?
> Ideally, I would like to give my altered client a different version
> and query it in a script. This way, I could prevent execution of
> code on normal clients...
>
>  The way I do that is by making the viewer speak on a channel. That can
> work for attachments but isn't really good for anything else.
>
> You could also make the object try to talk to the viewer with the
> protocol I described on startup. If it doesn't answer, then it's not
> supported. But then people without the patch see junk on their
> screen.
>
>    -Tobias
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