Client Tweaks: Snapshot Upgrades.

Well after the recent blog post I did on my Jira posts, Dedric Mauric pointed out about editing the xml to achieve what I was wanting with the Email addresses on the snapshot menu. Mainly that would be a) default to your sign-up address and b) multiple entries.

The Jira post for this is VWR-12822. As you can see Dedric points out that…

Talia, I’ve been doing this myself for a few years. In the email address, type in multiple addresses separated by a semicolon. In fact, I even modified my skin XUI files (floater_postcard.xml) to automatically populate this for me since I always post to the same addresses – pics@slbuzz.com;pics@slpics.com;pics@bloghud.com

Now I get exactly what he is talking about there but from teaching people the accuracy tricks for the client I am guessing that most people don’t get the later part of that.

Email Snapshot Image

Now I am sure everyone is familiar with this. Those flickr and koinup junkies especially.

The first tip I guess as Dedric mention is multiple addresses. It is as simple separating them with a semi-colon. eg

TaliaTokugawa.*****@post.koinup.com;talia.tokugawa@googlemail.com

(( I did double check this))

Now personally I find it very annoying having to copy and paste the same email address in for each time I want to send a postcard, especially as it’s to the same place 99% of the time. There is however an easy way to set this if you don’t mind mucking around with the xml files for your skin.

  1. First Navigte to your Secondlife directory.
  2. The goto the /skins/default/xui/en-us folder in your Secondlife directory. (Pick which ever language is appropriate for the last bit)  [for macs that will be /Applications/Second Life.app/Contents/Resources/skins/default/xui/en-us/floater_postcard.xml Thank you RangerMickey Burner]
  3. In this folder you are looking for a file called “floater_postcard.xml”, once you find it open it in a text editor.
  4. On lines 8 and 9, you should see       <line_editor bottom_delta=”-6″ follows=”left|top” height=”20″ left=”120″ max_length=”254″
    name=”to_form” width=”150″ />
  5. Now to add an email address already filled out you need to replace the “/>” on line 9 with “>email@somehost.com</line_editor>”.
  6. You should be left with something like     <line_editor bottom_delta=”-6″ follows=”left|top” height=”20″ left=”120″ max_length=”254″
    name=”to_form” width=”150″>TaliaTokugawa.******@post.koinup.com;talia.tokugawa@googlemail.com</line_editor>
  7. If you are currently in Secondlife you will need to restart for this to take effect.
  8. Enjoy ^.^

[Edit: Just made this tutorial into a Koinup Story board]

[Edit: Adding info for mac users]