Does llDialog shout or not?

I live on two adjoining, but separate, parcels and I created a script to change the radio station by choosing from a menu of selections. I'm relying on llDialog shouting on a chosen channel so a second prim with the same script on the next parcel hears it and changes the station accordingly.

It works fine as long as the two prims containing the script are within 20 meters of each other. But my workshop, where I want prim #2 to be located, is 30m from the main building, where prim #1 is. And when the prims are more than 20m from each other, they don't communicate.

According to the wiki, llDialog shouts the menu selections on the channel, but that doesn't seem to be working for me here. I can make it work by shouting the command myself on the channel from much farther away, and I guess that would be the workaround for the script. But I don't understand why, if llDialog is supposed to shout the command, it's not working.

I was planning to use the concept to run a number of things on my two parcels. Having to repeat the menu commands with llShout seems like a lot of extra coding.

Is the wiki wrong or am I missing something?

Yeah it should be say, no idea why someone recently changed the wiki text to shout. At least, the 20 meter thing is something I've run into.

Ah, so it is the wiki.

Thanks Viktoria. I'll adjust my script accordingly.

There were some old "shout" typos in the wiki that were propagated, now it matches what happens in world =)

Dialogs have some odd properties, if you open a dialog on an object, then TP to a new sim, the object in the original sim will still receive the answer. I'm guessing this is related to the fact you're still a child agent. But It also indicates it's not quite the same as a normal Say.

And some more possibilities...

I think that the lslwiki.net "no longer true" comment might have been about attachments that try to send a dialog response to a stationary object. I've been farting around today with prims that send dialogs and listen to themselves and one another, moving them around to different points while attached and sitting by themselves, trying the moves at different points in the sequence, to get the SL wiki's entry in line with reality.

And yeah, the user interaction part does have nice properties. The behavior described at lslwiki.net seems to be right (same region to start, anywhere else until logout) but wants a little more testing.

One thing I've noticed before is that if you are moving REALLY fast (flight assist, or when orbited), often an attachment will not be able to hear a dialog response. Just a little tidbit to ponder/mess with. Don't know how much this is still true; the last time I noticed it was on the order of months ago.

That makes sense, from the way the Lindens explain how listens work. If you moved more then 20 meters between the dialog getting its chat out and the message getting through the queue to your listen event (yay lag), you would be out of luck.

Hmm, even in a prim zooming around with warppos within a region, menu listens seem to hold up very well. Near region crossings, it's pretty easy to make them fail just with some flight assist. So missed listens are looking more like regular SL borkage than any limitation in llDialog.

It does an llSay as if it were coming from the avatar, but it does it from the position of the receiver script so that even if an avatar were out of range when they pushed the button, the script will always hear it.

Yep that's well established, Hewee's observation was about an object that can't always hear things originating from itself. And region crossings do mess with that.