URL:  Torley’s Video Tutorial

He did a Q&A on the SL Blog today and someone asked about hiding the search box in the upper right corner.  I didn’t know I could get rid of that.  In fact, when I hide it I gain two little black bars to monitor the lag I guess.  Plus he shows how to pop up another lag meter too.  Sweet!

URL:  Related JIRA entry
URL:  Knowledge Base Entry for Uninstalling Second Life™

See the notecards on the left?
That’s 2 notecards opened!

I have a fix that worked for me.  I’m no tech support, but I’ll write down what I did that fixed it and below that write down all the things I tried that did not fix it, but still helped my PC

Check the Knowledge Base for “uninstall” (or use the URL above it it lets you)
Do what it says, doooo it…..

Then I went back to the folder where the cache was at:
Open c:\Documents and Settings\(yourusername)\Application Data\Second Life

Then moved the entire contents of that Second Life folder to a new folder I made on my desktop.

Rebooted, reinstalled the current viewer
Logged back in, my notecards are working once again.

Now, what I found during the several hours of hassling with it!

It started earlier today after having successfully read and used notecards for a couple of hours.  Suddenly, I had an issue.  My  notecards were only showing the edge where the scroll bar was, and sometimes the keep/discard buttons but only rarely.  No text, no whole notecard.  I could not close them, resize them, move them, or get rid of them.  I had been relogging each time, but thanks to Ajira (Hmm I forget how to spell her name!  Sorry!) you can use control-shift-W to close all the windows in the view.

Next, I spoke with two different Lindens (Rika and Rheya, thank you both!) who each consulted with more Lindens on the problem.  Their suggestions were great, although it didn’t fix it, I am very appreciative of their time!  We went over a lot of options, even at one point Rika logged into my account and was able to view the notecards.   I logged into my account on my husband’s PC and sure enough, there’s notecards!  Yoko, out at Kuula was a tremendous help, thank you!

So Rheya’s suggestion was maybe new drivers, so I tried that.  No dice.

I tried the RC/First Look client (which is the same thing at the time I blog this).  It’s shiny, bright, but no notecards at the time!  I uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, even on Ajira’s suggestion got a registry cleaner and did that too.  Every time I did, my login name and password were still filled in for me.  I thought that was odd but it didn’t really sink in for a while.

My PC boots up fast like it used to, thank you! 

So although it took what felt like forever to find a fix, the results along the way were all useful just the same.  Updated drivers, clean caches, clean registry, uninstalled a few random games I didn’t even remember having on my PC.  All good

My head is killing me and I’m still totally frazzled, what a hassle.

I want to send a very, very special thank you to Yokohama Imako.  She worked with me with many suggestions for I’d say at least two hours maybe, out at Kuula.  You are awesome, thank you :)  I think you might be the only person I’ve met that truly enjoys tech support in that magnitude haha!  I appreciate all the time and effort, thank you :)  A big thank you to Rika and Rheya Linden, and to everyone else out at Kuula who helped me out today with suggestions and tips :)  You guys are awesome.  I hope I didn’t forget anyone!

I has a notecard!  Nomnomnom!  I am tired now haha

URL:  LSL Wiki:  ClientAssetKeys

This is interesting!  It’s UUID’s of some generic things in SL™.  Textures, animations, sounds, and I forget what else. I don’t know how to use the UUID of textures on a prim other than tossing a script into the object.  Is there another way?

Here’s what I wrote today to try out some of the textures.  Pretty proud of myself, I didn’t need to look up the llSetTexture to get the format right this time!  No laughing allowed, I’m still learning scripting.  This is big haha

The script below will set the texture of the prim to that UUID (I think this one is one of the grassy textures), on all sides of the prim.

If you want to texture just one side, don’t guess at it.  That’s extra hassle you just don’t need, right?  In the edit window click the “Select Texture” near the top of the edit window above all the little tabs.  Now click the side you want to texture.

Use control-alt-shift-T  and read your chat window.

Now, instead of ALL_SIDES    type the number that spot instead!  See, no problem!

I learned that this week in two different classes.  default
{
state_entry()
{
llSetTexture(”abb783e6-3e93-26c0-248a-247666855da3″, ALL_SIDES);
}

touch_start(integer total_number)
{

}
}

I’m ready to flip out rage cat style.

People will send a message to a group, say for example FashCon.  You dweebs, stop talking in it in the first place it’s not for chatter.  The dweeb will speak, and moments later I get a popup box that I MUST click away about a chat error and then the tab closes.  Another dweeb says “d00d, ur not posed ta talk heer!” and I get another error, and the tab closes again.

Then some other dweeb goes “WHAT IS WITH TEH SPAM!?”

Another error.  Tab closes again.

“spaaaaaaaam….”  and repeat

It keeps on going and going for however long it is until the initial rush of text of people calling the original person a spammer dies off, then it seems to just stop.  The tab doesn’t re-open.  No more errors for a while.

I don’t know if that means people got quiet or if the tab finally just stop freaking out.

People, telling the group that the original typist was spamming does not mean you are exempt from the title of Spam Princess yourself after you scream to the group about how spammy person A was.

But all that is beside the point here (though it does irk me), the point is that annoying pop up error box that completely locks my viewer up until I click it away.  Trying to build with those errors is aggravating.  Take a class, got errors, yeah it is bad then too.  Trying to just explore the grid, bam.. error..   Chat with people, hoo…… errors.

It’s not just FashCon though, it’s unfair to only blame that group.  It actually happens to other groups in which chatter is a welcome event!  Unfortunately, I can’t get Friends of the Shire to work today cause of this stupid error *hiss*

Time to break out in rage cat mode, I’ll slice the error up with cute siamese paws and deadly claws.

Fear me.

Now to go search the forums again and see if there’s any recommended tips for fixing this annoyance.

Are your chat tabs not flashing when you get new messages now that you’ve updated to the new viewer?

In the  NCI chat, Max offered up this very helpful tip:

Under the Client tab (control-alt-d)
Scroll down to Debug Settings
Find ButtonFlashCount and set it to 9999

Here’s a bonus tip too!  You can change the speed of the flashing too by clicking “ButtonFlashRate” in that same Debug window and lowering the number.  I think mine is 1.3