Please help with this argument error

Hello,

I am a newbie in this coding, I am trying to get owner name from this code but it gives me "Function call mismatches type or number of arguments" error can someone please help me correct my code?


key owner;

key user = NULL_KEY;

if (notecount == 1) {
owner = llGetOwner();
if (status == OFFLINE) llInstantMessage(user, + owner + "offline.";
else llInstantMessage(user, "message sent to " + owner + ".";

}

I need to get the item owner name.

Thank you

There is llKey2Name if the avatar is online and in the sim.

Since it looks like you are more interested in offline stuff, you will be better off using llRequestAgentData to pick up DATA_NAME. You will have to rearrange things a little so that the instant message goes out from the dataserver event, but it will do the job. You can stash this away in a variable if you are only interested in the owner's name.

[your error message will be in trying to use owner as a string, it's a key so you would have to cast it as (string) owner in that instant message. But never mind that, since you really want to print the name and not the key =)]

Error in:
llInstantMessage(user, + owner + "offline.";
try:
llInstantMessage(user, owner + "offline.";

and owner is a key, but you need a string. Try llKey2Name(owner). That will work if the owner is in the region. If not you must request a dataserver for the name, see:
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llRequestAgentData

HI, thanks for the answer, yes I need to detect off sim owner.

llInstantMessage(llKey2Name(owner) + "offline."; <-- this works but need off sim.

I have visited the link but I cannot understand how to convert the owner key to a name.

Hmm I think I will make it simple I just want to print out the item name owner regardless he is online or not.


How can I convert the owner key to name?

key owner;                  
            
key user = NULL_KEY; //Can't send an instant message to NULL_KEY, so
     this better be given a real value somewhere. 

if (notecount == 1) {
        owner = llGetOwner();
            if (status == OFFLINE){ llInstantMessage(user, llKey2Name(owner) + " offline.");}
        else ){llInstantMessage(user, "message sent to "  + llKey2Name(owner) + ".");}

That ought to do it. BTW, get in the habit of using curly brackets even when they aren't technically necessary. It's small insurance against the day when you edit a script, add a line and forget that the brackets aren't there when you needed them.

llSetText(llKey2Name(owner) + " is online ", <0,1,0>, 1);

ETA: And if the object is in another sim, you just have to get "owner" from llRequestAgentData instead of llGetOwner(), as Dora said.

is not doing what you think it is it returns a key which you must use in a dataserver event. Besides you need one more request for the name. The one you have is for the Online status.
try this:

integer onlinestatus;
string ownername;
key querystatus;
key queryname;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        querystatus = llRequestAgentData(llGetOwner(), DATA_ONLINE);
        queryname = llRequestAgentData(llGetOwner(), DATA_NAME);
    }
    dataserver(key queryid, string data) 
    {
        if (queryid == querystatus) onlinestatus=(integer)data;
        if (queryid == queryname) ownername=data;
        if (onlinestatus) llOwnerSay(ownername+" is ON line");
        else llOwnerSay(ownername+" is OFF line");
    }
}

This will work. It is NOT the way I would make an online detector, but an attempt to guess what you want