Creating a 50-panel OnRez Viewer

I had an idea of something to try out with the on-rez vendors. The panels were simply named “Thumbnail 1″ through “Thumbnail 8″ and all contained what appeared to be teh same script. I had an idea to add more thumbnails and see what would happen. The worst would be that I would end up with two thumbnails showing the same pictures.


To my pleasant surprise, the vendor displayed the extra items on the new thumbnails. It also paged for all 16 thumbnails instead of eight at a time.


I took it a step further and made 100 panels since 100 items was the limit a vendor could hold. I had some problems linking everything together and the vendor was smart enough to notice some panels were not linked. It wasn’t smart enough to tell me which ones though.

You have 95 thumbnails set up, but one thumbnail is numbered 100. Please make sure your thumbnails are labeled 1-95 or set up all 100 thumbnails to ensure proper operation.

One I got everything linked properly I had a lot of stack-heap collision errors with all of the messages going back and forth. This usually happens when there are over 64 link messages in the que. I also saw a custom message stating that the limitation was 20 panels.

Only 20 thumbnails can be used.

Bah! I could care less about limitations. I wanted to test past the limits and boldly break this thing where no avatar has broken it before. After playing around, it seemed that I couldn’t get any more than 50 panels to display without getting the stack-heap collision. The results paged find and clicking on the panels showed the correct item for sale.


I am a little confused why I get the message about a limit of 20 thumbnails. 50 works just fine. Perhaps there is much more in the works later on.