[sldev] Various questions on the viewer.

[Lawson English]

Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote:
> Jason:
>
> I don't (yet) know the answers to your questions, but I can tell you 
> that starting next week, I'm going to be working on a project (along 
> with a couple of other people) called "User Interface Cleanup" that 
> includes, among other things, a reworking of the way we handle 
> callbacks and a reorganization of XUI. We expect to spend most of the 
> next quarter on it.
>
> SL grew a bit more organically than any of us would like -- but now 
> we're trying to apply some good engineering principles. So hang in 
> there and we'll keep you posted.
In the long run (probably doesn't apply to the cleanup project), it 
would be good for everyone to keep in mind the consensus of the open 
source community appears to be that the GUI should be at least as 
scriptable as WOW.

In the very long run, the GUI and viewer library could be closely or 
loosely coupled depending on what capabilities are desired, and a client 
might consist of zero or more camera views of the SL interacting with a 
GUI that is merely a set of elements controlled by a script that 
interacts with the viewer library.

L.