Typing Overrider

i made a quick script to block the Typing anim, but it always manages to squeeze a little bit of typing anim in before it blocks it, am i doing this wrong? is there a better way?


pls excuse my messy code

list listy;
string bob;
default
{
    state_entry()
      {
	llSetTimerEvent(0.0000001);
	llRequestPermissions(llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
        
       }
      timer()
      {
	listy = llGetAnimationList(llGetOwner());
	bob = llDumpList2String(listy," ");
 	if(llSubStringIndex(bob, "c541c47f-e0c0-058b-ad1a-d6ae3a4584d9")!= -1)
	       {
	           llStopAnimation("c541c47f-e0c0-058b-ad1a-d6ae3a4584d9");
	        }
        }
}

Your code is fine. The problem is that the reaction of the animation kicking in is always faster then the script's detection and execution of the the stop-animation command.

The only alternative I can think of to trying and enhance the reaction speed would be to constantly, blindly stop the type animation every timer tick.

Only problem is that this sort of a script would be crude and rather laggy.

The easiest way to stop the typing anim is to actually start an anim with a higher (lower? i always get those confused) priority. You can set the priority during the upload of the custom anim.
If this is applicable to your situation, i don't know.

As of 1.6, there is now a "AGENT_TYPING" value you can check for in the llGetAgentInfo() function. You could use that instead of looking at the Avatar's current animations. I don't know if it would be faster or not, but it would certainly be cleaner code.

Of course, you can do this without using a script. Just type a slash before typing anything else. /Hello will have your av say "Hello", but the av doesn't type.

much much faster because looking for the typing animation requires searching a list which is slow and take more overhead.

But it does use the dataserver event.....I haven't done any testing, does anyone know which way is faster?

Na.. you're thinking of llRequestAgentData() which polls the dataserver for online status, key2name resolve, date of birth, and rates. The llGetAgentInfo() command is instant and returns a bitfield.

Much faster.

Oo, nice.....I was under the impression that is was a dataserver thing, glad I was wrong.