Message to group?

There's not a way, in LSL, to cause an object to send a message on a group channel, is there? And, assuming that I'm right, and there's not, what's the suggested workaround for that?

(And before anyone gets on my case about spamming group channels, yes, I own the group.)

*posted stupid non reading post post so i edited it*

Strife, what are you on about? It's a scripting question. I'm attempting to write a script that will allow an object to send a message to a group. Last I checked, this was the forum for silly scripting queries...

i'm totaly sorry i somehow missread your entire post. A don't believe there is at present a nice way of IM'ing an entire group. One way you *could* do it is to keep a list of all group members ie have them click the object. (do a same group check and keep the detected keys in a list)

something like this should work... just have all the group members touch it while they have the group title selected.

list members;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llListen(0,"",llGetOwner(),"");
    }
    touch_start(integer a)
    {
        key b;
        for(b=llDetectedKey(--a);a + 1;b=llDetectedKey(--a))
        {
            if(llSameGroup(b))
            {
                if(-1==llListFindList(members,))
                {
                    members+=b;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    listen(integer a, string b, key c, string d)
    {
        if(llGetSubString(d,0,2)!="gm "
            return;
        d=llDeleteSubString(d,0,2);
        for(a=-llGetListLength(members);a;a++)
            llInstantMessage(llList2Key(members,a),d);
    }
}

*wanders off to stick head in oven (oh shoot it's electric)*

::chuckles:: Thanks.

*bump*
look up



haven't tested it but it *should* work.

That would work with small groups where you can tell everyone to click the object.


What about large groups - is there a way to communicate with all members of the group without using the Group IM?

I'm assuming the answer is still no.

Works like a charm, so far, Strife. No "state" before "default", though. ;> Now to twist this script to my own considerably deranged purposes! ::mad scientist laugh::

Er, ::coughs:: pardon, "perfectly valid business purposes".

sorry about that, i wrote the script without testing it. It will need a way to remove people from the list...

It would be much better to convert it to send out notecards, that way you could know that everyone got the message. It would of course require a bit of interface work.