MagnaMural: Texture Display & Organizer
Commands Summary
by Apollia Pirandello
For more a much more extensive manual, go to this page: MagnaMural Manual
A zip file of this manual, the Commands Summary, the MagnaMural's and MagnaMural Updater's scripts, and the MagnaMural Main Page is here. (128 KB)
Keyboard commands are formatted like this.
Menus, buttons, and other things you can click with a mouse are formatted like this.
Window titles and other things you don't have to click are formatted like this.
You can activate the MagnaMural to listen for text chat commands and gestures by clicking on one of its panels. (Unless it's in Locked Mode, in which case only clicking Panel 3, the lower left panel, will get its attention).
After that, the MagnaMural will listen for 10 minutes for your commands in both regular "audible" text chat and the silent chat channel it's set to use, and, every time you say something, use a gesture, or click on the MagnaMural, the timer is reset to 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes of you not clicking on the MagnaMural, not using a gesture, and not saying anything, the MagnaMural stops listening.
You can stop the MagnaMural from listening at any time by saying the command off.
The gestures included with the MagnaMural will only work if the MagnaMural is set to listen to silent chat channel 9, but you can customize the gestures to use other channels, as well as other keystrokes, and you can even create new gestures to issue entirely different commands. (For more details on how, see the manual).
Before the gestures will work, you have to activate them. To do this, go to your inventory, right-click a gesture (for instance, "MagnaMural - F4 - Forward - Channel 9", and choose Activate. The gestures can be used by pressing one of the F-keys on your keyboard. The gesture's name in your inventory will tell you which F-key to use.
The MagnaMural is designed for the personal use of its owner only, so, only the owner can control the MagnaMural. It won't work properly if deeded to a group, so please don't deed it to a group.
How to Say Things on a Silent Chat Channel
Here's an example of how to say a command on a silent chat channel.
At the chat prompt, if you say /9 size, that will say the text "size" on silent chat channel 9. If the MagnaMural is set to listen to chat channel 9, it will tell you its current size.
If the MagnaMural is set to listen to some other silent chat channel, however, you'll have to say your command on whatever silent chat channel it's set to. This is done simply by replacing the 9 in the foregoing command with whatever number is the actual channel. For instance, /12 size would say the text "size" on channel 12.
To find out what the current channel is, you can say ch, which will put the MagnaMural into Silent Chat Channel Select Mode, and tell you what the current chat channel is, as well as allow you to select a new one if you like. (But if you'd rather not, just say x to get out of Silent Chat Channel Select Mode.)
The silent chat channel is also almost always stated whenever the MagnaMural "talks" to you (except when reciting a list of all textures). It is shown toward the beginning of the line of chat, like so: "MagnaMural (9):", where 9 can be any number from 1 to 9999. The number in parentheses is the silent chat channel number the MagnaMural is set to.
Commands
Navigation | Texture Retrieval, Deletion and Info | Resizing and Shape Changing | Other Settings | Manual and Help-Related | Other
The commands below are case sensitive - that is, it matters whether you use capital or lowercase letters in them. The commands below need to be stated exactly as they are below in order to work - minus the commas and dashes, which aren't part of the commands.
Many commands have more than one way to say them. To distinguish between multiple ways of saying the same command, the commands below are separated by commas.
Navigation
Textures within the MagnaMural are in alphabetical order and are numbered accordingly.
If you type in any number between (and including) 1 and the number of textures contained in the MagnaMural, the MagnaMural will go directly to the texture referred to by that number.
d - Move backward one texture before the current texture. Gesture: F3
f - Move forward one texture after the current texture. Gesture: F4
r - Go to a random texture. Gesture: F10
MOST RECENT, m, v - Go to the most recent previously-viewed texture. Gesture: F9
u - Moves the MagnaMural up by 1 m. Gesture: F8
j - Moves the MagnaMural down by 1 m. Gesture: F7
e - Reload current texture. (Quickly goes forward one texture then backward one texture to where you started). Gesture: F5
The Reload command might (or might not) help if the texture is blurry and taking a while to load, and it will definitely help if there are those annoying lines that may temporarily appear in the MagnaMural after you do a resize or change the shape mode. It should also help if, through some fluke of Second Life, a texture hasn't loaded on all panels.
Texture Retrieval, Deletion and Info
GIVE TEXTURE, g - Gives you a copy of the texture on display.
k - Tells you the UUID key of the texture on display. (For more info on what a UUID key is, see this page: http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=UUID ) This feature will probably only be useful to you if you're into scripting.
tdel - Deletes the current texture on display. This asks you to confirm by saying "y" before anything is actually deleted.
NAME/NUM, name, n - Either displays the texture's name and number in floating text above Panel 2, or hides it if it's already on display.
sn - Shows the texture's name and number in floating text above Panel 2.
hn - Hides the texture's name and number.
LIST, list - Prints list of all textures inside. If there are a lot of textures (like, hundreds or thousands), this will take a long time.
Resizing and Shape Changing
RESIZE, resize, rs - Puts the MagnaMural in Resize Mode, which allows you to reesize the MagnaMural by saying width and possibly height (if the MagnaMural is in Freeform Shape) in chat.
SQUARE, sq - Puts the MagnaMural in Square Shape.
SCREENSHOT, ss - Puts the MagnaMural in Screenshot Shape (which is correctly proportioned for 800x600, etc. screenshots).
LONG RECTANGLE, lr - Puts the MagnaMural in Long Rectangle Shape, which is half as tall as wide.
FREEFORM, ff - Puts the MagnaMural into Freeform Shape, so you can set the width/height of MagnaMural any way you like.
When issuing the commands above, you can also include the width (and possibly height, if the MagnaMural is in Freeform Shape) all in the same line.
Example: sq 5 will make the MagnaMural into a 5m x 5m square.
size, s - Causes the MagnaMural to state its current size.
x - Exits Resize Mode, or Text Color Change Mode, or Silent Chat Channel Select Mode.
e - Reload current texture. (Quickly goes forward one texture then backward one texture to where you started). Gesture: F5
The Reload command might (or might not) help if the texture is blurry and taking a while to load, and it will definitely help if there are those annoying lines that may temporarily appear in the MagnaMural after you do a resize or change the shape mode. It should also help if, through some fluke of Second Life, a texture hasn't loaded on all panels.
Other Settings
TEXT COLOR, color, col - Puts the MagnaMural in Text Color Change Mode, in which you can change the color of the floating text optionally displayed above Panel 2 by stating three numbers in RGB (Red Green Blue) format ranging from 0 to 255. "255 255 255" = white, "0 0 0" = black.
CHANNEL, channel, ch - Puts the MagnaMural in Silent Chat Channel Mode, in which you can change chat channel on which you can silently give commands.
x - Exits Resize Mode, or Text Color Change Mode, or Silent Chat Channel Select Mode.
ve - Puts the MagnaMural in Verbose Mode, which means the MagnaMural will copiously describe most everything it's doing. It's in Verbose Mode by default.
br - Puts the MagnaMural in Brief Mode, which means the MagnaMural will not spam you as much with descriptions of what it's doing. Particularly useful when you have multiple MagnaMurals around.
ph - Puts the MagnaMural in Phantom Mode, so you can walk through it.
so - Puts the MagnaMural in Solid Mode, so you can't walk through it.
hi - Puts the MagnaMural in Invisible Mode, which makes the MagnaMural completely transparent.
(If you forget where your transparent MagnaMural is, go to the View menu, and select Highlight Transparent - or, press Ctrl, Alt, and T on the keyboard all at the same time - and your invisible MagnaMural will be highlighted in red).
sh - Puts the MagnaMural in Visible Mode.
lo - Puts the MagnaMural in Locked Mode.
ul - Puts the MagnaMural in Unlocked Mode.
off - Makes the MagnaMural no longer listen for text chat and gesture commands.
Manual and Help-Related
COMMANDS, commands, co - Gives you the "*-Astroblahhh.Com MagnaMural Commands Summary - Public Domain" notecard.
HELP, help, h - Gives you the full manual in the form of a notecard. You can also browse the manual on the web - http://magnamural.astroblahhh.com/manual-pd.shtml
HOME PAGE, www - Go to the MagnaMural's home page at Astroblahhh.Com, http://magnamural.astroblahhh.com/
DONATE, donate, do - Go to a page of info about donating to me, Apollia Pirandello - http://astroblahhh.com/donations.shtml
Other
gest - Gives you a folder called "Astroblahhh.Com MagnaMural Gestures", containing the default gesture set, which uses silent chat channel 9.
DEMO, demo - Gives you a MagnaMural demo you can give away.
reset script - Resets the entire script. There is purposely no shortcut way to say this, because I think it should be hard to do unintentionally.