D'niWeb

[Mac_Fife]

Is it possible (/technically realistic) to just open up the default browser? I mean, it wouldn't have too many bugs or hacks and wouldn't slow down the game too much?

I regularly had a browser open while I was playing and would often go "AFK/BRB" to check a forum or whatever, so I don't believe slow down would be much of an issue unless you've lots of other processes running or a sub 1.5GHz processor. In any case would it matter that much? - If you're looking up a news item, are you really paying that much attention to what the avvies around you are doing?
It'd be easy enough to do if you're running URU in windowed mode, more of a challenge in full screen, unless there's a way to open in a frameless window that you can integrate into in-game imagery.

[JWPlatt]

The Uru client captures control of the desktop in windowed mode, making it difficult (relatively, for a user) to switch to the desktop or other windows. It's also annoying the way it takes control of NumLock. I've always thought it rather rude of the Uru client to do these things. Software should respect the chain of command; user control over their own computer comes first. The Second Life client, for example, is polite in contrast. So I think some fundemental work to overcome the reasons why Uru takes this control away from the user will need to be studied and a resolution implemented in the client code.

[Gehn, lord of ages]

f you're looking up a news item, are you really paying that much attention to what the avvies around you are doing?

Oh yeah. So the only things to worry about slowing it down is the browser (IC realism for underground internet connection? ) and perhaps the in between times (because it would be nice to just be able to get up and go around [after checking the laptop] without waiting for the program to get back up to speed).

The Uru client captures control of the desktop in windowed mode, making it difficult (relatively, for a user) to switch to the desktop or other windows.

So can the Uru client switch to the desktop or other windows (to theoretically open them from in-game controls)?

[realXCV]

So can the Uru client switch to the desktop or other windows (to theoretically open them from in-game controls)?

Yes. But where's the point of having an IC internet if it's to use it through normal browsers ?

[Mac_Fife]

Oh yeah. So the only things to worry about slowing it down is the browser (IC realism for underground internet connection? )

And you can also factor in the effect of the laptop on the local chronon density: Everyone knows that computers induce a chronon rarified atmosphere around them, making the passage of time much slower when you are close to an operating PC. This explains why when you think you've only been on your PC for ten minutes, your family think you've been there for hours or have simply died.
This effect was little understood back in the 1980s, but goes a long way to explaining why Sinclair appeared to have such a poor delivery record on the early ZX-80 machines: The staff actually thought they were delivering within two weeks, it was just that to the rest of the world it was nearer two months...

[realXCV]

And you can also factor in the effect of the laptop on the local chronon density: Everyone knows that computers induce a chronon rarified atmosphere around them, making the passage of time much slower when you are close to an operating PC.

Does it apply to Macs too ?

[Mac_Fife]

Of course. I used the abbreviation "PC" in it's original generic meaning of Personal Computer rather than specifically an i86, IBM derived architecture . Do you think time passes any more quickly at a Mac?

[realXCV]

No idea. I never noticed it.

[rarified]

No, but it certainly passes faster when working to a deadline.

[D'Lanor]

Opening the default web browser from within Uru is easy. Cyan did it in MOUL to lead visitors to the account registration page. Make an in-game clickable (hyperlink) that calls a Python file. In that Python file import the webbrowser module (it is included in the MOUL Python pak). Add the usual Uru clickable Python stuff and then make it do something like this:

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webbrowser.open_new("http://forums.openuru.org/index.php")

That should do the trick.