llListenOnce please?
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Eggy Lippmann
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07-29-2004 05:32
I find that more often than not I use llListen to get a single command from the user, and then immediately remove it to avoid adding to the lag. Thing is, what with Cory's love of verbosity, and having to type llListenRemove 1000 times too many, on top of all the variables needed to store the listener IDs, I'm on the verge of getting RSI  Plus I'm just lazy. Can't I just get an llListenOnce command that acts like llListen but automatically removes itself when the listen event handler is fired? It would be a lot more useful. I mean, you have both llSensor and llSensorRepeat. It seems only logical. |
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Kris Ritter
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07-29-2004 05:39
When I started reading that I thought 'why?. But the more I think about it, the more useful it sounds.
So I'm with ya on that one. Being lazy, I mean.
Oh. And the listener thingy whatsit idea. Thats good too. We should have those.
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Hank Ramos
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Join date: 15 Nov 2003
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07-29-2004 08:32
Try using states...
default
{
state_entry()
{
state running;
}
}
state running
{
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
state listening;
}
}
state listening
{
state_entry()
{
llListen(0, "", NULL_KEY, "");
}
listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
{
llSay(0, "You said: " + message);
state running;
}
}
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Kris Ritter
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07-29-2004 09:04
From: someone Originally posted by Hank Ramos
Try using states... We do, Hank. Thats why I was originally hesitating and wondering why it was necessary. Now take a script that is 10 to 20 times more complex than yours below with multiple listeners, and I'm sure you'll see that it'd still be useful. So no harm in it, eh? |
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Ryen Jade
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07-29-2004 09:17
errr.... state_entry() { llListen(0,"","",""  ; } listen(integer c, string n, key id, string m) { if(m) { llListenRemove(); } } }
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Hank Ramos
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07-29-2004 09:23
From: someone Originally posted by Kris Ritter
We do, Hank.
Thats why I was originally hesitating and wondering why it was necessary. Now take a script that is 10 to 20 times more complex than yours below with multiple listeners, and I'm sure you'll see that it'd still be useful. So no harm in it, eh? No, no harm at all. I think it would be a nice addition to LSL. Just pointing out another way if people didn't know about states, and how they *can* help in this situation. |
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Hank Ramos
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07-29-2004 09:24
From: someone Originally posted by Ryen Jade errr....
state_entry()
{
llListen(0,"","","");
}
listen(integer c, string n, key id, string m)
{
if(m)
{
llListenRemove();
}
}
That definately won't compile. |
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Ryen Jade
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07-29-2004 11:22
I know, I put it together in about 2 seconds 
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Eggy Lippmann
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07-30-2004 03:19
Lol. I guess I miss the old fgets and stuff. It's amazing how much we manage to ignore the sheer wackiness of LSL when compared with real programming languages.
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Strife Onizuka
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08-01-2004 23:17
I support this in full.
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Catherine Omega
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08-02-2004 02:39
This would be useful, if only for the sake of completeness. For most tasks, I would still want to use llListen/conditional llListenRemove, though. That's not to say that llListenOnce wouldn't have its place though.
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