Remove Second Lifes Typing Animation

I've just started using Second Life, and one of the most annoying things about it, is the default typing animation, that everyone starts with, when inside of Second Life. The first question posed is, "How do I remove the typing animation in Second Life?" Well the answer's remarkably simple, because it's just a command inside of the Second Life viewer that's set to "true".

1) Open the Second Life viewer, and log into Second Life.
2) Once inside of Second Life, if you press Ctrl+Alt+D, you will get the Second Life advanced menu, appearing at the top of the Second Life viewer.

3) Click on the Advanced menu, and then select "Debug Settings" near the bottom.
4) You should now see a small box appear within the Second Life viewer, called Debug settings. If you click the drop down arrow in the first box, you will see a large collection of Second Lifes commands, but for now the only command we're interested in is "PlayTypingAnim".

5) Once you have located this command, you will see a breif description of what the command does, and the word "TRUE", which if you now change to "FALSE", and save. You will see that the typing animation in Second Life will now be stopped.

So jump back into Second Life, and have fun. My avatars name is "Nightfaller Aeon", for those who wish to know.

Regards,
Sycrid.

PHP Coding - Country Flags

This is a short piece of code that was developed for the YoYo Tech Gaming Group, in a recent project. The code simply drags out the name of a country from the database and takes that variable and drags the image with that variable as a name, with the extension of jpg or gif at the end. Then echos this image to the screen.

< src="">.png" width="18px" height="12px"/ >

As you can see we are telling an Image to appear with the "img src" opening the directory that the countries flags are stored within, in this instance it is "Flags/" and then we are jumping into the php.

We open up the php command with the usual ?php then we are echoing the variable which is stored in the database in the field Country, closing the php statement and then finishing the line of code with the file extension, which here is .png

Once run through a browser this will appear as ...

< src="Flags/USA.png" width="18px" height="12px">

Amazingly, this is a rather simple piece of code, and I will admit I got stuck with it, because before hand I was using if statements and it became a very long and extensive piece of coding, which was both a waste of my time and inefficient. However after it was pointed out to me on Coding Forums.com I did feel like slapping my self in the face because it was such an obvious solution.

Anyway the finalised product can be seen at the following location. YoYo Tech Developed Coding.

PHP truly does rock this world!
Sycrid