In SL, IM is used for a lot of things besides actual IM. We at some point decided to try and use more specific messaging/APIs to accomplish our communications goals. I've adhered to that in my core contributions but my out of core work does use IM as transport and it works like a charm.
IM is, because of this agreed limitation, a pure client <-> sim thing, as we translate the IM things (like friend stuff) into the above mentioned more specific APIs. However, there is nothing that prevents external services to query presence and inject "IM" using different IntantMessageDialog values into the last known sim the user is in, leveraging the "hunting" mechanism IM already has, to deliver a message from a service to a client. >From all appearances, that's not too different from what LL do. Melanie On 14/03/2014 02:01, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: > I think IM is just viewer <-> simulator and simulator <-> simulator or am I > wrong? > > On 14/03/14 00:50, Diva Canto wrote: >> >> On 3/13/2014 5:48 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: >>> I think this would be the first case of service -> simulator comms. >> >> Except for IM itself... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
