MacNala

Can anyone point me at a tutorial to enable to assess LSLForge as an IDE for SL scripts.?
I need a really low level of how to do it.

Casey Pelous

Hi, Mac, and !

How much LSL do you already know? I haven't found a tutorial, but just looking at the wiki, LSLForge has a lot of advanced featured aimed at folks doing long, complex scripting projects.

If you're an advanced scripter or adept in other scripting languages, it looks like a great tool. If not, you might see if LSLEditor is still available. Not as advanced but, I'm guessing, MUCH easier to learn. If you do find it, it doesn't install. It's one .exe file. Just dl it to your desktop, double click, and commence scripting. If you can work Notepad, you can easily get started with LSLEditor.

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MacNala

Thanks Casey for your input.
I think of myself as an advanced user of LSL. However even sometimes the complexity of the projects I work on causes me concern. It is all very well putting in debug statements like
if(debugging) llOwnerSay("some text");
But you have lots of interactions to deal with and event driven scripts are the devil to check whether you have catered for all of the possibilities (which button clicked first, second, what input) and all at the same or near same time.
I have used LSLEditor but it seems to be languishing in the doldrums some serious errors are being reported which are not present if the same code is presented to LL Mono compilation. I thought that LSL Forge might be a replacement. It is so dependent on Eclipse it has been borked by the latest release of Eclipse - Juno. I have solved that by going back level in Eclipse pro tem. What I now need is a quick intro to how to use LSLForge and I hoped someone here might know of such a resource to help me and perhaps others who are not experts in Eclipse.
Thanks again.

Casey Pelous

Ah - yes, I definitely hear you about all those OwnerSays ... Some days I've almost talked myself to death.

I'm no use on LSLForge (if that isn't already obvious) but maybe this little thread bump will scare up a user.



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Nika Talaj

Are you sure you have the most recent version of LSL editor? They broke the update function at one point ...

It's truly open source now, so one can hack around any problems you encounter.

http://lsleditor.sourceforge.net/

MacNala

Which is all very well but I thought you might have guessed from the comments I am not up to hacking around problems.
I expect a system to be offered which has been tested to work with the minimum of adjustment to preferences and folders to be used.
If it doesn't I ask for help and so far have received none except a previous poster who had so much trouble they went back a level to get it to work. I too have gone back level but have not had the time to get to grips with a system for which the help is an unformatted set of html pages with no visible means to search through them for meanings and key words.
I am now seriously concerned that LSLForge is not worth the trouble.

Innula Zenovka

I think Nika was picking up on your comment that I'm using the latest version of LSLEditor (not LSLForge), which is 2.46, released at the end of April, which I downloaded as a simple .zip file from LSL Editor Community Edition. Just extract it into a folder and you're good to go.

I find that perfectly adequate for everything I need, and far less hassle than LSLForge (which I would really only bother with if I was working on a large collaborative project, I think).

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MacNala

Have you tried a script which has more than one state?
I think you will find that it may be up to doing what you want but it certainly does not cope with multiple states!

Innula Zenovka

Yes, I use multiple states all the time in LSLEditor without difficulties. What problem do you say you have in LSLEditor with them?

Nalates

I have used LSLEditor with multiple states and multiple scripts. Setting up a PROJECT adds considerable depth to LSLEditor's ability. I've not seen a good tutorial on Projects for LSLEditor. I had to figure it out... tedious, but not too bad.