too many Listens??

Ive got this scripted car and suddenly it says 'too many Listens' with a part of the prims not responding (logically). I didn't change anything, tried to strip but still gives the same error. Had a friend trying it with the same result... I don't know what Im doing wrong.

Can anyone help me out?
thx

..You probably have too many listens. Go into the script, and look near the state_entry events (they're usually there) or you could use the Find feature to find the llListen function. Removing them from the script will make it compile and you won't get the error, but it will most likely break the script. See if you can get a hold of whoever scripted it and ask them to rework it.

Each time llListen is called it will add a listen even if it is called with the same channel number. LSL will support 64 listens (I think) before it will break with the 'too many listens' error.

Check where your code is setting up any new listens and why.

My guess is that your code looks something like this:

on_rez (integer p)
{
  .. etc ..
  llListen (0, "", llGetOwner(), "") ;
  .. etc ..
}

The problem with this is that whenever the on_rez event is called, it will create a new listener. This will seemly work okay, until you rez the vehicle the 65th time and then the number allowed listeners is exceeded. IIRC, listener filters are additive for the entire primset, so it's 64 maximum per set.

One solution is to capture the handle returned by the listener filter and then remove it every time:

on_rez (integer p)
{
   .. etc ..
   llRemove (gListenHandle) ;
   gListenHandle = llListen (0, "", llGetOwner(), "") ;
   .. etc .. 
}

Or, even simpler, just have your on_rez reset the script and set up your listener on the state_entry event.

Ive noticed. I tested it with pushing the reset button a couple of times (Ive got a listen functon in state_entry which sends the random channel to +-10 children.

Adding

on_rez(integer n)
{
      llListenRemove(channel);
}
state_entry()
{
     llListenRemove(channel);
}

helped.

Thx

Unless Channel is the ID returned by llListen that wont work.

soley a resetfunction on rez doesn't help, at least it didn't prevented getting those error messages.



I used channel as an integer. haven't received any script errors since.

He he Terminology, , I just meant that it shouldnt be the channel that you are listening on, rather that it should be the return value (an integer id) from llListen i.e.
This is wrong

llListen(Channel,"","",""); 

...

llListenRemove(Channel);

It should be

Listening = llListen(Channel,"","",""); 
...

if(Listening > 0) llListenRemove(Listening); 
Listening = 0;