[sldev] Why hasn't Linden Lab implemented WRITING to NOTECARD?

[Ann Otoole]

script memory limits are incoming. 
It is unwise to assume there will always be plenty of memory for scripts. 
I.e. at some point newly activated scripts in a parcel or in attachments will cease functioning if the memory pool limit is exceeded.
Better to use a web host and use out of grid assets you control for data persistence.




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From: Dzonatas Sol <dzonatas at gmail.com>
To: fire at b3dMultitech.com
Cc: "sldev at lists.secondlife.com >> SLDev" <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:09:29 PM
Subject: Re: [sldev] Why hasn't Linden Lab implemented WRITING to NOTECARD?

Fire wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> just wondering (and I am sure this question has been asked before)
> but why, oh why, hasn't LL implemented the feature of writing to 
> notecards?
>
> Wouldnt this solve a lot of our scripting nightmares?  Ie: List memory 
> limits
> etc?
>
> Give me an early merry xmass LLLD! (lovely linden lab developers)
>
> thoughts... ideas? opinions?  all welcome!
>

Notecards are tied to a UUID. When you edit a notecard, it creates a new 
UUID for each new version of the notecard. It's rumored someone at LL 
decided to prevent a continuous (and possible abusive) creation of new 
UUIDs for each version of a notecard by simplly not implementing the LSL 
command to write to notecards.

If you need a DB like storage, just write a listener/sender LSL-program 
to store values in memory. One LSL program is good for 8K of memory 
(actually more than that is available, but you'll need room to copy 
arrays around to avoid a script crash).
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