Accessing User's Inventory

Hi all!

I have a perfectly functional doormat at the entrance to my little domain which greets visitors. What I'd like to do is allow it to give the user that passes over it a notecard explaining the rules of my place, but i only want to do this the first time they visit.

Is there any way to see if the user already has my notecard?

many thanks

You can't view their inventory, as that would cause massive privacy problems. You can, however, keep a list in the script of people who have visited recently-- so it would at least be a rare occurence.

Oooh! A cunning plan!

I like that. I'll give it a go!

While you can store quite a few keys in a script (upwards of a hundred or so), if you have more folks show up, it will eventually fill up the script's memory, and will fail, giving a stack/heap collision error. There are in-world scritped workarounds, like using multiple scripts designed as a "database", but probably the best way is via database storage on a website that you update with llHTTPRequest.

Hmmm...

That's not really feasible. I need to keep it "in world".

Maybe I'll just direct them to go and pick up a copy of the "Rules and Regulations" manually.

Many thanks for your helpful comments, though.

Cheers

Well, you might also do some kind of "cycling" of keys, so that it doesn't give out a notecard to anyone it did recently, but if someone hadn't been to your place in a while, their key would have fallen off of the list, and they would get another copy. Frequent visitors wouldn't get one repeatedly, unless you had over a hundred or so unique frequent visitors.

Basically, a few ways to compromise to give you what you want.