I would think it might affect what the viewer can do with inventory items, such as wearing a skin or a body part or trying to rez an object by drag and drop.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Mic Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks... > > This is for that filesystem-based inventory tool I mentioned to you the > other day. Since I don't have to worry about icons and nice viewer > operations, I think I'm just going to ignore the existence of the inventory > types and stick to asset types. > > --mic > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Justin Clark-Casey < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 13/03/13 12:40, Jeff Kelley wrote: >> >>> At 8:57 PM -0700 3/12/13, Mic Bowman wrote: >>> >>> maybe a better question... are inventory types used for anything other >>>> than to put >>>> the right icon in the viewer (without the need to pull the asset) and >>>> put stuff in the >>>> right default folder? >>>> >>> >>> >>> According to >>> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/**Custom_Libraries<http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Custom_Libraries> >>> >>> « Inventory type is what tells the viewer which sort of icon to show >>> next to the inventory item's name. » >>> >>> >>> It also controls the variable part of the contextual menu ("Open", >>> "Wear", "Attach", "Play", "Teleport") and which >>> editor to use. >>> >> >> Yes, it does seem a messy crossover with much of the inventory type >> covered by equivalent asset type enums. But it's not a subset - inventory >> type has an attachment enum for instance. Although whether that particular >> enum is actually used I couldn't say. >> >> -- >> Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) >> OSVW Consulting >> http://justincc.org >> http://twitter.com/justincc >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/**mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev<https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >
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