Thanks to LL's web developer Jeffrey Carl Faden, who recently about it on Twitter, yesterday I discovered MIT's Sikuli:
http://sikuli.org http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/screen-shots-0120.html Using Sikuli, in a few minutes I did something that I never managed to do before - basically, "get a snapshot out of SL without directly using the viewer GUI". http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=431873 It's a sort of hack, but it actually works. The Sikuli script starts the SL viewer, wait for buttons to appear and automatically click them in a predefined sequence. AFAIK, bots can't do snapshots - so the only way to do something like was is to automate the use of a traditional viewer. Sikuli lets you do in a very very easy way. According to your setup and your operating system, this obviously can be remotely controlled. For example, one could set up an LSL HTTP-in script that detects the presence of an avatar. A second script on your computer periodically can call that script and ask if anyone is around. If the answer is positive, a third script (the Sikuli one) is started: it runs the viewer, logs in-world, take a snapshot, sends it via email and logs out. This kind of tools has obviously much more vast implications than what I'm specifically talking about here - I also guess they will be soon abused in creative ways... :| bye Opensource Obscure -- http://slurl.com/secondlife/LOL/12/34/56 _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
