Comments on: LL killed AjaxLife

By: Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy

Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:07:32 +0000

Thank. That worked great!

By: Thraxis Epsilon

Thraxis Epsilon — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:58:58 +0000

This should work to allow you to specify position in the region:

function addRegionMarker (regionName, rx,ry, storeImage, popupCode)
{
var SLMap = this;

// Add a dynamic script to get this region position, and then add a market and popup there
var varName = �slRegionPos_result�;
var scriptURL = �https://cap.secondlife.com/cap/0/d661249b-2b5a-4436-966a-3d3b8d7a574f?var=� + varName + �&sim_name=� + encodeURIComponent(regionName);

// Once the script has loaded, we use the result to center the map on the position
var onLoadHandler = function ()
{
if (slRegionPos_result.error)
{
//alert(�The region name �� + regionName + �� was not recognised.�);
}
else
{
var x = slRegionPos_result.x + (rx/256.0);
var y = slRegionPos_result.y + (ry/256.0);

var pos = new XYPoint(x, y);
yellow_dot_image = new Img(storeImage,60,45);
yellow_icon = new Icon(yellow_dot_image);
all_images = [yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon, yellow_icon];
marker = new Marker(all_images, pos);
mapWindow = new MapWindow(popupCode);
mapInstance.addMarker(marker,mapWindow);
}
};

slAddDynamicScript(scriptURL, onLoadHandler);
}

By: Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy

Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:14:43 +0000

Okay, so I’ve created a hack for the lack of SLPoint support using a region lookup service Linden provides. You only get resolution to the region, but its better than nothing.

function addRegionMarker (regionName, storeImage, popupCode)
{
var SLMap = this;

// Add a dynamic script to get this region position, and then add a market and popup there
var varName = “slRegionPos_result”;
var scriptURL = “https://cap.secondlife.com/cap/0/d661249b-2b5a-4436-966a-3d3b8d7a574f?var=” + varName + “&sim_name=” + encodeURIComponent(regionName);

// Once the script has loaded, we use the result to center the map on the position
var onLoadHandler = function ()
{
if (slRegionPos_result.error)
{
//alert(“The region name ‘” + regionName + “‘ was not recognised.”);
}
else
{
var x = slRegionPos_result.x;
var y = slRegionPos_result.y;

slAddDynamicScript(scriptURL, onLoadHandler);
}

By: Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy

Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:39:20 +0000

So, they seemed to have removed the SLPoint region name resolution support. Its boldly NOT IMPLEMENTED anymore, and it used to be. I hate when features disappear.

By: Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy

Nat Mandelbrot of Cruxy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:27:36 +0000

Yeah, announcements would be nice… our Music Map (http://cruxy.com/sl/map) has been down for days without us noticing and WITH us sending clients, users, etc to check out, well… nothing but an empty map. That’s no fun.

Heading over to wiki for new API info…

By: Katharine's Second Life

Katharine's Second Life — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:24:38 +0000

AjaxLife revived…

No thanks to Linden Lab, I’ve fixed AjaxLife. It no longer relies on the map API – it instead builds up the missing data based on MapBlocks. It was already doing this to fix capitalisation, but was also assuming that sims already existed in the m…

By: Alister Harrington

Alister Harrington — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:23:22 +0000

Argh. Fix it! >_>
Or….get LL to fix it…..or……….something?

*dies of SL withdrawal during vacation*

By: Melodee McMillan

Melodee McMillan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:52:37 +0000

Never ceases to amaze me how communicating can be so hard for companies like LL.

Thumbs up, Katharine! Hope you’ll be able to revive AjaxLife.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:30:04 +0000

Philll, I’m aware it changed. I found that after searching JIRA a bit, and also found that they would make a “wide announcement” before killing the old one. However, since the new one fails to include the sim names, it’s not very helpful to me. And, as I said, I refuse to have “Powered by Google” in the corner of my map.

It seems possible that it’s broken. But it’d be nice if LL actually told someone that.

By: Ezhar Fairlight

Ezhar Fairlight — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:14:14 +0000

Actually to me it looks like the generator that creates that script (to include the sim names/coordinates) simply broke. Most likely due to the number of sim names exceeding what the generator can handle.