No worries, we appreciate the time you can put into SL Viewer Life Support.
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| Henri Beauchamp wrote: The original scanner is Emrald's. Meerkat is reusing it, and improved it a little, but from what I can see, there is still a lot of work to do on it to remove some Luskwood specific features, clean up the code, and make it less laggy... Not sure I will implement it, especially since there are good scripted scanners/trackers in-world (I'm not speaking about cheap sensors, of course) and also since with v1.23, you can get the name of the avatars in the sim you are in and the neighbouring sims with the mini-map (hovering the mouse pointer above the dots: and from there you can also view there profile, and therefore IM, freeze, etc...). | |
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After I posted this request, I found another thread in the forums here where you mentioned the minimap tooltip.
I read release notes for the viewer and don't remember seeing that... once you mentioned it, I tried it out.
It does bridge the gap. I could live without the full floater, but having used both the tooltip and the floater version (from Dale Glass/Meerkat/Emerald) - for busy sims or multi-sim estates, the float is still nicer to have... the Meerkat version allows you to track avs well past normal viewer range, and that has been helpful. However, if its a giant pain to patch in, then support, I understand completely.
Anything I suggest is "nice to haves" .. and honestly, I didn't use it enough to merit switching from Cool SL Viewer to Meerkat anyway.
The tooltip is usable, especially with tracking "T" dots because they are larger and easier to "pick" with.
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I saw that... already downloaded and running. This is GREAT. Why am I not surprised you managed to clean it up some too.
Meerkat looks interesting, but the base version and some other things still seem pretty unfinished with it (the database tab? what?).
I looked at it when a friend suggested it for the backup piece... ran it for an hour... went back to Cool SL Viewer. I mostly use SecondInventory for bulk backups, and one feature in Meerkat wasn't enough to lose all the other features and fixes in CoolSLV. Plus, RLV is a must for me, and Meerkat and other GPL-strict viewers won't touch it.
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Maybe its just me - I use mute a lot (sim adminning, it happens) - and I run across Lindens pretty regularly visiting welcome areas, or "event" sites. I was lurking in Daden Space on the 20th (Happy Moon Landing Day!) and a whole gaggle of Lindens came by sight-seeing.
So, yeah, maybe it is just me. Again... just suggestions... in the weight of features vs. speed, I gladly defer to your judgement. I can't even hardly make my eyes read the LL$ code, so... you definitely know better than I do =)
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No worries, another feature that would only be of limited use for sci-fi roleplayers, anyway.
I live in a sci-fi sim and when I was reading the feature lists of many third-party viewers on the LL$ wiki, that was a feature that jumped out at me as useful for sci-fi sims. No harm in asking, right?
So far, I am *loving* 1.23 with the Cool SL Viewer patches.
Everyone around me seems to be crashing every few minutes from some network bugs that appeared as server 1.27 rolled out, but I keep rolling on happy as a clam - and I know who to thank for that... so, THANK YOU!
I need to visit a store again and find more stuff of yours to buy as a way to say thanks.
In fact, will do that now.
Thanks again for all your hard work!