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llInputBox
Strife Onizuka
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Join date: 3 Mar 2004
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12-20-2005 13:09
key llInputBox(key avatar, string msg, string default, integer hide)
If the user presses "submit", a dataserver event is triggered; the dataserver key is the key used to create the input box, the dataserver string is the data entered in the input box.

CODE

//Silly example script
key query;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        query = llInputBox(llGetOwner(), "Please input your favorite animal species", "cabbit", FALSE);
    }
    dataserver(key queryid, string data)
    {
        if(queryid == query)
        {
            if(llToLower(data) != "cabbit")
                llOwnerSay("How could you like "+data+"s more then cabbits? Cabbits are the best.");
            else
                llOwnerSay("Aren't cabbits the greatest?");
        }
    }
}


CODE

llInputBox(llGetOwner(), "Please enter your password", "Monkeys", TRUE);
llInputBox(llGetOwner(), "Please enter your search term", "Cabbit", FALSE);
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12-20-2005 18:39
I sure want that much :D
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Cid Jacobs
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12-20-2005 22:28
Great idea. <stamp>
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12-21-2005 11:39
Alternate design, to be more consistent with llDialog, and to also allow cross-script use (I often use llDialog to generate messages for other scripts, many of which I don't have the source to and which only listen to llGetOwner()) and cross-object use without relays.

llInputBox(key avatar, string msg, string default, integer channel);

This would work like llDialog, when you click submit the message would be sent on the named channel.

Alternatively:

llInputDialog(key avatar, string msg, string default, list buttons, integer channel);

This would extend the existing llDialog to include an input box above the buttons.
Haravikk Mistral
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12-21-2005 12:36
Wouldn't it be easier just to keep llDialog and use a constant in place of the list of buttons?

CODE
llDialog(llGetOwner(), "Please enter your username", INPUTBOX_TEXT, channel);

AND

llDialog(llGetOwner(), "Please enter your password", INPUTBOX_PASSWORD, channel);


Although ideally if they were doing this, they should replace the listens required with a simpler dialog() event which is called when the dialogue choice is made.
The function would simply return what the user entered as it's message to the listen (or dialog) event.
SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-21-2005 13:23
How bout including a flag to allow restricting input to Anything, Integer, Float?

Toss in some range limits and field lengths, save people coding time and make scripts simpler.
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-21-2005 14:50
From: Haravikk Mistral
Wouldn't it be easier just to keep llDialog and use a constant in place of the list of buttons?
That would work, you could enter the text and then have another dialog drop down with the buttons. I'd rather be able to combine the buttons with the dialog (like [submit reply] and [preview post]).

I like having llDialog listen-based, because it lets me automate scripted objects and attachments that I already have using the dialog.
Haravikk Mistral
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12-21-2005 15:17
Hmm, I didn't think about that...well I suppose it would have to a be a new function anyway as many scripts would break nowadays. So llDirectDialog can deal with that stuff then :)

I kind of get what you mean about buttons, but I'm unsure how useful it would be beyond having surveys with an "Other (please specify)" option. But yeah, definitely would like this idea!
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12-21-2005 16:24
From: Haravikk Mistral
I kind of get what you mean about buttons, but I'm unsure how useful it would be beyond having surveys with an "Other (please specify)" option. But yeah, definitely would like this idea!
How about this dialog? There's a lot of scripts that take commands like "hug Avatar" or "bite Avatar"...

CODE

Enter the name of the avatar you want to...

[                                         ]

( Hug )     ( Bite )     ( Noogie )
( Ignore )


So if I had a touch-script in a HUD that did:

llInputDialog(llgetOwner(), "Enter...", ["Hug ", "Bite ", "Noogie "], last_avatar, 1);

And if I entered your name and clicked "Bite" it did the equivalent of "/1Bite Haravikk", I could use the "Dark Gift Bracelet" I got at some Goth store SO much more easily...