Non-speech Chat

On occasions someone in a chat conversation will contribute a statement decribing an action or emotion without their name preceding the text. I have searched for the method of doing this without success. If anyone can help me, I would be grateful.

/me performs an action

It's easy. Just type /me then the action in chat.

For example:

/me smiles

/me can't log in.

Unless I'm wrong.. the /me isnt what they're looking for.. that still preceds it with the name, just no colon.

Ah, I missed the word "without" in the question. Good catch.

I use to have a gadget that allowed me to throw words around without anyone knowing where it came. I've seen it used at clubs by others also. I didn't have any use for it so I deleted it when I cleaned inventory, but I know I picked it up at a freebie place somewhere.

I have an emoter that does it, it works on channel 7. I think I got it Dark Desires

I know scripts listen on different chat channels, and that you can get monitors to let you do the same, sort of like a police scanner. But how would an emoter that works on Ch 7 work? How could other people listen to it?

You're asking the wrong Girl, Hon. I don't know how any of this stuff works. But if I type /7 hello, all you see is "hello"
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You're right. It was called an emoter that I had too. Most emoters that I'm aware of make facial gestures, but this one allowed me to toss out actions like the OP was referring to.

Give me a little bit to try something out, and if I can I'll post the code, but I think I know how to do it.

On object chat I couldn't get rid of the semicolon but I was able to get a simple repeater, that will repeat what you say on a channel (I clearly commented where to change the channel if you want) in general chat. As noted in my comments if you change the object name to a single space it will appear blank before the text other than the semicolon which I don't think can be removed from object text

// Coded by Gordon Wendt, free to reuse, snip, recode, give away, or use in derivative works for all perpetuity, all I ask is that you leave this notice intact, add your name below mine if you add something to the code, and leave this and any other creator's notice intact

// -----
// GORDON WENDT


// ACTUAL CODE STARTS HERE

// Change the object name to whatever you want the message to be prefixed by, replace with a single space to make object name appear blank, though message will still have a semicolon (:) before it

integer chan = 5; // replace with whatever channel number you want the object to listen on

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llListen(chan,"","",""); // sets the listen so that object listens to says on that channel
    }

    listen(integer channel,string name,key id,string message)
    {
        llSay(0,message); // says whatever it heard on channel 5 in channel 0 which is the standard general chat
      
      // ALTERNATE MODES (ADVANCED)
      
      // to use these instead of llSay put two forward slashes (//) before llSay and remove the two slashes from oen of the lines below, to reverse just re-add the slashes to that line and remove the ones from the llSay line
      
      //  llShout(0,message); // if you'd prefer it to shout
      //  llWhisper(0,message); // if you'd prefer it to whisper
    }
}

I've added some extra commenting since I'll add this to the snippets section of my userpage on the Second Life Wiki as well.

it's easy... change the name of an object to a space
then have it repeat what the owner says on an off channel, into chat using /me + what the owner said.... no colon, no name, nada... and it should show up in green by default JSYK, that's how you know it's an object speaking