Kit: BOP Summary. Browser-on-Prim. Web-on-Prim. Shared Media.

BOP.  Browser-on-Prim.  Web-on-Prim. Shared Media.
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I call it BOP.  That makes for an easy search in my inventory.  Linden Lab calls it "Shared Media."   In earlier days, when we were wishing for it, people called it web-on-prim.
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Browser-on-Prim: 

Blog Posters

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What is it?
A feature that lets you turn a prim into a live web browser in Second Life.  People using a BOP-enabled viewer can see the web page as they walk by.  The web page can show videos, play music, take you to other pages, and do most of the things that you expect to do with a browser.  If the source page is updated, the BOP is also updated the next time it is read.
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Why don't I see these web pages on prims?
You have to be using a BOP-enabled viewer.  At present, that means a viewer built from the Second Life Viewer 2 code-base.  The best known of these are:

• Second Life Viewer 2.x
• Firestorm.   

  Phoenix Viewer - Home

How do I make a prim browser to show my web page?
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Quick Trick (in Viewer 2.7, maybe Firestorm)

• Open your browser to the web page
• Make a cube
• Left click and hold down on the web page address bar
• Drag the cursor onto the prim and release the left key
• Wait a bit -- the web page will appear on the face where you dropped it 
• Adjust the shape of the prim to suit you
• Make Full Bright and Phantom if you want
• Use an existing, pre-sized prim, if you prefer
• You can drop another url on the prim to replace the one showing.

Thanks to Torley for showing how to use this

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Caution.  You can drop a web page on any prim you own.  When you do this on a prim you have out for other reasons, you will want to remove the media.  To do this:

Right click on the object -- Edit -- Texture -- Bottom of texture window--

In media control area, click on trash can.

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Poster displays
For a poster display, you will want a way to restore your url when people take the browser to another page.  I use scripted posters to do that.  You can pick one up at Cookie Hobo Helpers HQ.  There is a shelf there with a row of kits.  Take any one of the kits.  They all have BOP posters in the contents.
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Right click on a kit and select Take Copy.  Rez the kit and edit it to see the contents.  Drag the BOP poster and anything else you want into your inventory.
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Once you have a BOP poster, you can follow the instructions here:
Script Modding 101: Use scripts without knowing how.
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The script sets the BOP to a specified url every 15 minutes.  All you have to do with the script is replace the url in it with the url you want it to show.
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The Full Linden way
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Shared-Media/ta-p/700145

BOP controls- Texture window

Create: Make a poster

Building 101 Start learning how to build

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How to Use a BOP
You can recognize a bop when you get close to it, because a control bar will float over it.  The bar will give options that you expect a the top of any browser.  And one other option: open the website in your main browser.
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Click on the face of the prim to start using it. Other people will probably see the web page also, but if not, they need to check their media settings.
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Portable BOPS for event calendars and the like

You can make a prim browser wearable.  Then the owner can wear it anywhere and look at it whenever they need it.  Here ia how:

• Virtual Outworlding: Pocket calendar
• Virtual Outworlding: Kit: Wear objects/ edit them

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Related Articles
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Virtual Outworlding: Browser on Prim, Update

Scripting. Meet LSL, object oriented, event driven and other concepts

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Posterize your blogs in Second Life
Preferences: Media. Sound. Prim browsers. Video
Control the multimedia in Viewer 2.7

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