Rainbow Viewer

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Ana Lutetia | No Comments

Boy Lane has been working on a viewer based on the official Second Life® viewer but some of the functionalities of the Cool Viewer, basically the Worn Tab (the one I can’t live without any more). The Rainbow Viewer has released a few days ago and it has been my viewer ever since.

Rainbow Viewer logo

If you want to see the Worn Tab implemented in the official SL™ viewer, just vote for it:
VWR-508 | VWR-2199
That’s what jira is all about: making our wishes come true.

Release Notes for Rainbow Viewer Release 1.22.11.0 R1 Windows April 28th 2009
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http://my.opera.com/boylane (Windows)

Patches by Henri Beauchamp (released under GPL v2 license):
* AllowDiscardForCreator: enables the “Discard” button in the notecards that you created and that are given to you with llGiveInventory(). Fixes the VWR-2290 bug.
* CommonDateAndTimeFormats: allows to configure the time and date formats and to use them coherently everywhere in the viewer (fixes VWR-721 among others).
* DefaultToFmod (for v1.22): under Linux, makes sure the Fmod sound wrapper is used by default (this can be changed back by editing the “secondlife” wrapper script), since the new OpenAL support is still very flacky on most hardware/distro.
* HideIMinChat: allows to optionally prevent IMs to show in the main chat. Implements the VWR-3060 feature.
* HideNotificationsInChat: allows to optionally prevent the notifications (those small messages appearing in a blue box on the lower right corner of the viewer window) to show and be logged in the main chat.
* InventoryDoubleClickActions v2: defines double-click actions in inventory for objects (wear as attachments or remove if already worn), and clothes/body parts (wear when not worn, or remove when worn). Implements the VWR-1752 and part of the VWR-1825 features.
* InventoryDoubleClickActions v2_RestrainedLife_addon.patch.bz2: addon patch to apply when the RestrainedLife patch is also used (see below).
* KeepCachedSounds: cures the sound problems in -multiple mode, and allows to keep cached sounds over sessions. Fixes the VWR-2876 bug.
* LandmarksDiscardButton v2: restores the “Discard” button in the new landmarks floater. Fixes the VWR-3616 regression.
* LargePrimsAndHavok4SimHeight_v2: allows to build large prims (up to 128m large) in OpenSim and above 768m high (and up to 4096m) in SL. Also allows to TP above 1000m.
* MaxNetworkBandwidth: unleashes the maximum network bandwidth, preventing the repetitive throttling by the viewer (which slows down rezing compared to what it can be on high speed connections). Note: setting the max bandwidth to 4Mbps or so should be more than enough as I never saw more than 2.5 Mbps used by the viewer (the bandwidth is also limited server side anyway as it depends on the number of residents in the sim and on the network link speed for this sim).
* MonoBackport_v4 (for v1.19.0.5 only): backport of the v1.22 script engine with Mono compilation and new LSL functions support (note that although the new LSL functions will compile thanks to this patch, most of their effects will be invisible to the patched v1.19.0.5 viewer as they involve features implemented in later viewers, such as the render glow, the extended parcel media, etc).
* MoonBrightness: corrects the brightness of the moon, allowing to actually see it, especially when it’s close to the horizon.
* MUposeStyleAndOOCautoClose_v2: allows to use the MUCK/MUSH/MUX/MUD pose style (VWR-3093) and allows to auto-close double-parenthesis (Out Of Character) chat/IM poses.
* NewNotecardSaveButton: adds a “Save” button to new/received notecards.
* NoMultipleLocaleWarnings: prevents messages such as “WARNING: LLLocale: Failed to set locale en_US.utf8″ to appear hundreds of times in the log file (any locale loading failure now appears once only in the log).
* OldTrackingDotsInMinimap: reinstates the “old” (pre-v1.18.4) mini-map icons for “above” and “below” avatars. Fixes the VWR-2808 regression. Set the “UseOldTrackingDots” flag to TRUE, and restart the viewer to enable this feature.
* ReinstateOldSearchTabs (not needed for v1.19 and older): reinstates the “All (Old)” search tab as well as the old style (non-web) Groups search tab (why the Hell LL keeps making things harder and slower with searches ?).
* ReinstateShowTextureUUID: reverts the “fix” for VWR-1919: security by opacity is a delusion: removing this feature would not prevent pirates to steal your textures, while it would prevent you to verify that some object has been textured with your own textures. And by the way, there are much better (much more efficient) ways for a pirate to steal the textures (by using the cached files, for example)…
* ReinstateStatusbarBandwidthAndPacketsLoss (for v1.19. This patch is part of the RevertUIchanges one for v1.20): gets rid of the search box in the status bar and reinstates the bandwidth and packets loss indicators. Fixes the VWR-3156 regression and fullfils VWR-3089.
* RememberMinimizedFloatersPosition: Fixes the VWR-5530 regression (minimized floaters not remembering their position).
* SaveScriptsAsMono (for v1.22, part of MonoBackport_v4 for v1.19): Allows to save scripts in inventory as Mono scripts instead of LSL2 (when the SaveScriptsAsMono setting is set to TRUE). Fixes VWR-8827.
* TeleportHistory_v2_RestrainedLife_addon_v2: addon patch to apply when both the RestrainedLife patch and the TeleportHistory patch are used (see below).
* CoolPreferences: for the v1.19 to v1.22 series of the Cool SL Viewers: it adds a “Cool features” tab to the Preferences panel and allows to switch on and off the various features of the Cool SL Viewer without having to use the geeky “Debug settings” (hey !… but I’m a geek !). If you build your own viewer, please note that it only makes sense to apply this patch “as is” if all the patches of the Cool SL Viewer have been applied.

Collaborative work:
* GestureMissingError (for v1.19, fixed in v1.20): based on a patch by by Nicholaz Beresford, this improved works around the “missing gesture” bug (by me) and improves the error message when the gesture is actually missing (by Nicholaz). See VWR-333.
* LinuxShortcuts: based on a patch by Khyota Wulluf, this improved patch changes some shortcuts which collide with Linux console switching keys (CTRL ALT Fn shortcuts are turned into CTRL SHIFT Fn). See VWR-2085.
* LlhttpclientMemLeak: based on a patch by Carjay McGinnis, this patch plugs a couple of memory leaks (VWR-9400).
* LlmediaImplGstreamerFixes: aggregates patches from Tofu Linden (VWR-10370), Aleric Inglewood (VWR-10759). and, for v1.19.0.5 viewers a crash fix by me.
* MoreGridsDynamic (for v1.21 and newer): with code from JB Kraft and Robin Cornelius. This patches implements dynamic grids list loading (from grids.xml) to allow choosing between SecondLife and OpenSim grids from the login screen (VWR-7531).
* RestrainedLife_v116g: based on a patch by Marine Kelley, this improved patch implements the RestrainedLife features. Set the “RestrainedLife” flag to TRUE, and restart the viewer to turn it into a RestrainedLife viewer. See the RestrainedLife Readme and the RestrainedLife API for more details. If you are curious about the functional differences between Marine’s and Henri Beauchamp’s patch, have a look at http://sldev.free.fr/Marine_Henri-diff.txt.

Trivial backports by Henri Beauchamp (these patches only contain differences between older and newer versions of the viewer (no code added/changed by me beside trivial adaptations to the older code), i.e. the actual authors of the fixes are Lindens):
* AbortTextureFetch (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a fix to a problem with textures loading.
* BvhLoaderVisualisation (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a fix to a problem in how BVH animations are visualized before being uploaded (VWR-996).
* FileAccessSecurity (for v1.19.0 and older): backport from v1.20.17.0 of a file access security fix.
* FloaterInspectCrashFix v2 (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a fix for the inspect floater crashes (VWR-10823).
* LlFloaterUpdateButtonsPossibleCrashBug (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a fix for a possible crash bug.
* LlMediaImplGstreamerPossibleCrash (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a potential crash bug fix.
* PossibleCrashChangingGraphicSettings (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a potential crash bug fix.
* PossibleCrashViewerObject (for v1.19.0 and older): backport from v1.19.1.4 of a potential crash bug fix.
* SecurityFixBackport (for v1.19.0 and older): backport from v1.20.16.0 of the L$ transactions (and a couple other server messages) security fix.
* SnappingChildPrimRebuild (for v1.21 and older): backport from v1.22 of a bugfix dealing with scripted child prims moves (VWR-3871).
* ScriptsInSelectionError (for v1.21, included in MonoBackport_v2 for v1.19.0): backport from v1.22 of a bugfix dealing with scripts compilation/resetting failures in some selected objects (SVC-2771).

Patches by Alissa Sabre:
* FilePickerLocaleCrash: fixes a crash bug in the file picker dealing with accented characters and bad locale (VWR-5575).
* LlfontglRenderWrongParams: fixes a wrong parameter list in a llfontgl function (VWR-9517).
* LlrenderWrongTypedef (for v1.21 only): fixes a wrong typedef in the source which may lead to a compilation failure (VWR-9507).
* StyleDropShadow (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes a llStyle quirk (VWR-1352).

Patches by Blakar Ogre (for v1.19 only, not for Windlight based viewers):
* ParticlesDeadCodeAndVWR983: fixes particles update issues (VWR-983) and cleans up dead code.
* ParticlesVWR2164: fixes particles alpha-related quirks (VWR-2164).
* ParticlesVWR418: fixes particles generation issues (VWR-418).

Patches by Gigs Taggart:
* Duckwalk: cosmetic patch for the “duck walk” of AO-less avatars (VWR-1603).
* EditTerrainForce: implements a “force” variable in the edit terrain tools (VWR-2331).
* LostConnectionOnLogin (for v1.21): fixes spurious “crashes” (disconnections) on login (VWR-8783).
* SnapshotsPNG_JPG (for v1.19 only, not ported to v1.20, implemented in v1.21): implements PNG and JPG snapshots (VWR-2491).

Patches by McCabe Maxsted:
* ExpandedBuildTools_v2: adds a “Slice” setting to boxes, cylinders and prisms (VWR-7827), lowers the increments for path cut and dimple to 0.025 (VWR-7877) and for texture offsets to 0.05 (new in v2, by Henri Beauchamp).
* FriendshipAndCallingcardOffersIgnoreButton: adds an “Ignore” button to friendship and calling cards proposal dialogs (VWR-4826).
* MissingKeyword (part of MonoBackport for v1.19): fixes the problem with PARCEL_FLAG_ALLOW_CREATE_GROUP_OBJECTS not being properly highlighted in the script editor (VWR-8454).

Patches by Michelle2 Zenovka:
* JpegGracefulErrors (for v1.20 and older, implemented in v1.21): improves checks and error reports on bad texture uploads (VWR-4022).
* BulkSetPermissions_v2: implements bulk permissions setting (VWR-5082).
* LlMsgVarData (for v1.21 and older, fixed in v1.22): fixes a possible crash bug and leak (VWR-8310).

Patches by Nicholaz Beresford:
* AsstachmentsBug (for v1.19.0, fixed in newer viewers): fixes the “all attachments in the ass” bug (VWR-374).
* DebugSettingsShortcutCtrlAltS: adds a keyboard shortcut (CTRL ALT S) to pop up the Debug Settings panel.
* InventoryNotify (for v1.20 and older, fixed in v1.21): unclutters the give inventory notification dialogs (VWR-1754).
* KeyframemotionLeaks (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20.11.0): fixes bad memory leaks.
* LpecRpecSwapped: fixes the ATTACH_LPEC/ATTACH_RPEC wrong (swapped) constants in the LSL editor (SVC-580).
* PossibleCrashAndLeakAssetStorage: fixes a potential crash and a memory leak.
* PossibleCrashDeadCubemap (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes a potential crash (VWR-2682).
* PossibleCrashDragAndDrop: fixes a potential crash (VWR-2003).
* PossibleCrashGroupVoting: fixes a potential crash (VWR-2543).
* PossibleCrashHudBoundingBox (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes a potential crash (VWR-2685).
* PossibleCrashSpeakerList: fixes a potential crash (VWR-2683).
* PossibleCrashRenderglow (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes a potential crash.
* ShiftEscResetsCameraView: allows to reset the camera view with SHIFT ESC and does not close the chat input line when doing so.
* Statsbars (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes stats bar overshooting and cleans up the texture console layout (VWR-779).
* SlurlMenuMemoryLeak (for v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes a minor memory leak.
* TextureCacheHiccups_v3 (for v1.19, not yet ported to v1.20 and later): fixes texture caching quirks. Also includes the CacheSmallTextures patch by Robin Cornelius (see below).
* TextureConsoleCleanupLayout (for 1.22): Fixed display of texture console (CTRL-SHIFT-3)
* WorkerThreadWhenTerminating: fixes a thread quirk (VWR-1294).

Patches by Zi Ree:
* EditKeysInDialogs: fixes a problem with unsupported DEL key in some dialogs (VWR-9127).
* TeleportHistory: adds a teleport history floater (VWR-7913).
* VisitedLandmarks: fixes a long standing bug (dating back from 2007) with landmarks icon failing to turn red after use and with the position beacon failing to appear on arrival on first use of the LM (VWR-7896).

Miscellaneous patches:
* AmbiantMasterVolume (Aimee Trescothick): Fixes the issue with ambiant sounds not being affected by the master volume VWR-4371.
* AttachedParticlesAndLightsKiller (Able Whitman. For v1.20 and older, implemented in v1.21): Allows to “mute” the light and/or particles emissions on attachements. See VWR-6540 for details.
* CacheSmallTextures (Robin Cornelius. For v1.22, part of TextureCacheHiccups_v3 for v1.19): Fixes small textures caching failures. See VWR-12686 for details.
* DeprecatedHttpResponse (Ramzi Linden. For v1.19): aggregates the three necessary patches to make v1.19 viewers compatible with future SL servers. See VWR-12248 for details.
* FlexibleSculpties (by Zwagoth Klaar & Qarl Linden): implements flexible sculpties (BEWARE: flexible sculpties introduce a *lot* of lag on the viewer side: use sparsely !). Implements VWR-9203.
* Fmod (by Marine Kelley): fixes a compilation and linking problem with FMOD under Windoze for v1.21 viewers.
* LeakVoicevisualizer (by Mm Alder. For v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes a memory leak (VWR-3777).
* LLimageTGA_DeleteColorMapFix (by Aleric Inglewood): fixes a memory leak (VWR-10837).
* LLTextureCache (by Robin Cornelius): Enables caching of small textures that were previously discarded (VWR-12686)
* MultiLinesChat (by Tofu Linden. For v1.19: fixed in v1.20): fixes multi-lines chat wrapping issues on the console (VWR-4057).
* OpenJpegChannels (by Carjay McGinnis. For v1.21 and older: fixed in v1.22): fixes a bug showing when using the OpenJPEG decoder (VWR-4070).
* RemembersStatsPosAndSize (Latif Khalifa): allows to remember the stats floater position and size in v1.21 and later viewers (VWR-9540).
* RenderDeferred / obsolete OpenGL libs (Luricos Alderton): fixes OpenGL issues (VWR-12540)
* SaveLoadScripts_v2 (by JB Kraft. Not yet ported to v1.21): allows to save and load scripts from the script editor to local file systems (VWR-5206).
* SendParcelSelectObjectWrongReturnType (by Carjay McGinnis): fixes a wrong type which triggers warnings in the log file (VWR-9620).
* ShiftReturnWhisper (unknown author): implements whispers for avatars via SHIFT+ENTER in the chatbar.
* TPabove1000m (by Peter Lameth. For v1.21): fixes a problem with the world map clamping the max altitude to 1000m (VWR-7331).
* WornInventoryTab (by Vadim Bigbear): Adds a “Worn” tab to the inventory floater. Implements VWR-2199, VWR-508.

Rainbow Icon by Jacek Antonelli

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