[sldev] Re: [META] Permissions - A content creator's view
Callum Lerwick
seg at haxxed.com
Tue Sep 25 09:46:39 PDT 2007
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:23 +0200, Dale Glass wrote:
> Suppose it sounds pretty good, but I'd prefer to have a separate
> functionality for configuration instead.
>
> Something like llGetSettingFloat("Update interval", 5.0);
>
> Notecards are very annoying to parse to get configuration info, and are
> slow too. IMO a specific mechanism would be much preferrable.
>
> Now, not 100% sure how exactly to do it, maybe just store a key/string
> value pair, and let the coder deal with that. Not ideal, but would be a
> huge improvement already.
>
> Perhaps make it store lists directly, that has the advantage of being able
> to store anything losslessly and not needing a function per datatype.
Yes please! On MUCKs, all objects have a property list attached, which
you can edit by hand and access with scripts.
http://www.belfry.com/fuzzball/muckhelp.html#PropHelp
http://www.belfry.com/fuzzball/mpihelp.html#PropFuncs
http://www.belfry.com/fuzzball/mufman.html#PropOps
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