Argent Stonecutter wrote: > I've been speculating about this for years, though not using the > parcel media, or the overhead of VNC. It should be possible to make SL > act as a window manager, and have local media textures (only visible > to and set within the viewer) render locally executing programs > without this kind of rigamarole. > _______________________________________________ >
Certainly possible with Squeak smalltalk since you can direct the rendering to an offscreen buffer if you want. Unfortunately, I'm not so hep on how to take the shared buffer created by the SL plugin and pass it on to the squeak-side plugin. I guess just pass the address in with a POST to the localhost URL A more interesting situation will result when you start to manipulate packets via a gridproxy (or preferably an external event handler plugin so you can have more fine-grained control) and use a webpage or in-world GUI for the programming interface to an IDE. You can also use the same principle to feed a view-only stream to a regular media stream so that others can watch as you program (or combine things as Aimee suggests with a remote VNC server). For me, the ultimate prototyping/hacking SL plugin will be the combo I'm trying to work on: a seaside localhost webserver that can manipulate packets via gridproxy, and provide control surfaces for packet interfaces via localhost webpages and/or interactive Squeak windowing done through the media pliugin. http://www.seaside.st seaside is a smalltalk-based webserver that maintains server-side state for each webpage in a session, and comes bundled with all manner of goodies like blogs/wikis and of course squeak itself. Perfect for private database/blogging/diary/programming/asset managing/content creation/etc/etc stuff. And if you have a need to share your work with others, you can use smalltalk to provide P2P communications with other clients, or send whatever you want to share to an external media server for normal viewing via SL media URLs. Of course, other programming languages and IDEs could be used instead of squeak, but there's just this thing about "Croquet on a Prim" as a multi-media P2P IM system that appeals to me (not to mention that smalltalk is about the ultimate prototyping language if you don't need maximum speed since you can modify the entire system on the fly). Lawson _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
