Zac Bowling’s Blog

After hearing from Miguel back in September, talking about Second Life was currently planning on using Mono’s VM to embed into Second Life and switch their system over to compile Second Life’s scripting language (LSL) into CLI, I was floored. The thing was that I had just had my first run at Second Life a few weeks before that and just had recently became addicted.

To be completely honest, I was sort of annoyed with it at first. It has a bit of learning curve. However after working at it for 30 minutes, and giving up, I kept coming back to it. It’s like a drug. I couldn’t really get over what I was looking at (and if it was real), it is HUGE. Well since then I spend at least 6 hours a week tinkering around in my Second Life world. It’s amazingly addictive. You can pretty much do anything you can program. People have made casinos for gambling, fully working air fields, clothing stores, houses and reality for sale, elf farms, dance clubs, and some women running around in some very skimpy clothes. Though, I don’t think that I was really hooked until this one guy. This one who thinks he is Santa, who flys around in Sleigh he created, around his ice palace, creating toys for all the kiddies. He created everything himself. Anyways, everyone has a Second Life story.

Anyways. Here is an amazing video presentation the guys at Second Life gave to the guys at Google. Its a good hour to watch so here is a good tip: jump to 14:50 to hear about the scripting technologies and at 15:34 you will hear about how they are using Mono.

(No, I won’t tell you how to find me in Second Life. I keep my personal, work, and Second Life completely seperate :-) ).

Everyone likes freebies, so here is a somewhat simple example on of how to do p/invoke callbacks in C# and C with Mono. Enjoy. (Of couse, it requires a mono+mcs, a C compiler, and make)
http://www.polystimulus.com/PinvokeCallbackTest.tar.gz

Keywords: pinvoke, delegates, function pointers, callbacks