[sldev] Speaking object's owner and location logging coming soon to my viewer

[Alissa Sabre]

> I'm working on a viewer modification to know the owners of speaking
> objects and their location for IMs.

The feature sounds great.

> Since the avatar's name may not be possible to know immediately,

> A problem here is that the IM message only includes the sim key, but the
> grid doesn't seem to have any key -> sim name lookup functions. The way
> I "solved" this is by taking advantage of that connecting to a sim gives
> you both the key and sim name, and made a libsecondlife bot that
> teleports like mad over all the grid creating a database. Currently
> nearly done.
> 
> This approach isn't 100% perfect of course, as the DB will always be a
> bit out of date, and some sims will be down/inaccessible, so a key won't
> be possible to gather.

Reading this explanation makes me feel this is a wrong way.  We need
to change the server/messages to implement this feature.  I know at
this moment, however, what we can do is just combining existing
pieces.

If we (sldev developers and LL employee developers) are already
working in a collaborative manner, this type of issues could be
handled better, say, first by exchanging ideas through some
communication channel (mail, in-world chat, wiki,...), then by
co-working with server-side development by a Linden and viewer-side by
a non-employee dev.

How we can achieve this?

    Alissa
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