Category:LSL Avatar/Name

2011-01-25T13:58:03Z

Freefall Ninetails: /* Modern and Legacy Accounts */

{{Multi-lang}}{{LSL Header}}{{LSLC|}}{{LSLC|Avatar}}[[Category:Display Names]]
===Names===
From an LSL standpoint avatars can have 3 different names.

{| {{Prettytable}}
! Names:
! {{Hl2}} | Description
! {{Hl2}} | Unique
! {{Hl2}} | Get (in region)
! {{Hl2}} | Request ([[dataserver]])
! {{Hl2}} | [[llSensor]]([[llSensorRepeat|Repeat]]) flags
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Detected|detected}} events
|-
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Display Name|Display}}
| The name that is displayed on the screen.
| No
| [[llGetDisplayName]]
| [[llRequestDisplayName]]
| [[Display_Names/LSL#What_about_an_AGENT_BY_DISPLAY_NAME_flag_for_llSensor.3F|NA]]
| {{HoverText|NA|Use llGetDisplayName in conjunction with llDetectedKey.}}
|-
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Username|User}}
| The name the users logs in with.
| Yes
| [[llGetUsername]]
| [[llRequestUsername]]
| [[AGENT_BY_USERNAME]]
| {{HoverText|NA|Use llGetUsername in conjunction with llDetectedKey.}}
|-
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Legacy Name|Legacy}}
| An interface predating [[Display Names]].
| Yes
| [[llKey2Name]]
| [[llRequestAgentData]]
| [[AGENT_BY_LEGACY_NAME]]
| [[llDetectedName]]
|}
{| {{prettytable|style=float:right;margin-top:0;}}
|+ <h4>Name Formats by Account Type</h4>
|
! {{Hl2}} | Modern
! {{Hl2}} | Legacy
|-
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Username}}
| "username"
| "firstname.lastname"
|-
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Legacy Name}}
| "UserName Resident"
| "FirstName LastName"
|-
! {{Hl2}} | {{LSLGC|Display Name|Display}} Default
| "UserName"
| "FirstName LastName"
|}

=== Modern and Legacy Accounts ===
* Modern accounts are created by choosing a user name, which consists of one name (no spaces).
* Legacy accounts were created by choosing two names: first and last names. These two names are used together to form the username.

To maintain compatibility with legacy scripts (that expect two names), modern accounts are given the legacy last name "Resident".

The default value of the Display Name depends upon the type of the account. For legacy accounts, it's the Legacy Name. For modern accounts, it is the Username (but capitalization used at registration time is still preserved).

<lsl>string LegacyToUsername(string legacy)
{
list name = llParseString2List(llToLower(legacy), [" "],[]);
if(llList2String(name, 1) == "resident")//it's not a legacy account.
return llList2String(name, 0);//first name is username
return llDumpList2String(name, ".");
}</lsl>

=== Legacy-Name Only Functions ===

These functions only take Legacy Names and there are no alternative functions available.

* [[llCollisionFilter]]
* [[llListen]] - likewise the [[listen]] {{LSLGC|Events|event}} only has a Legacy Name parameter.

===FAQs===
There are a couple of FAQs that go into much more detail about this:
* LSL FAQ: [[Display_Names/LSL]]
* General FAQ: [[Display_Names]]

Talk:LlListFindList

2010-01-07T00:41:01Z

Freefall Ninetails: /* Keys are seen as strings */ new section

Is this case-sensitive?

[[User:Sayrah Parx|Sayrah Parx]] 17:23, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
:Elements need to equal in type and value. Since strings are case sensitive and since variable names are case sensitive, [[llListFindList]] is case sensitive too.
:[[Image:Zai_signature.png|45px]] '''[[User:Zai Lynch|Lynch]]''' <sup><small>([[User talk:Zai Lynch|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Zai Lynch|contribs]])</small></sup> 17:47, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

== Keys are seen as strings ==

If you have a haystack list of keys in which you try and find a needle key, you have to convert the needle to string because llListFindList sees keys are strings, not sure why.<br>
[[User:Freefall Ninetails|Freefall Ninetails]] 00:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

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