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Question about llDialog, Listen, timer and lag

Kaylan Draken
Registered User
Join date: 2 Dec 2006
Posts: 127
08-04-2008 10:05
I have a question about llDialog, Listen , Timer and Lag.
I don't have a script problem with it but want to understand it better.

Situation 1:
Touch_event
- Start timer 60 seconds
- Set llListen
- Set llDialog

Listen
- handle menu options
- Remove Listen

Timer
- Remove Listen in case user used ignore button

Situation 2:
Touch_event
- Set llListen
- Set llDialog

Listen
- handle menu options
- Remove Listen

I think situation 1 is better in cases when the script is only touched few times a day or less.
And situation 2 is maybe better when the script is touched lot of times a day.

Maybe its better to have a listen_event 'open' when the user click on the Ignore button of llDialog then use a timer_event to close it. I read timer-events causes lot of lag.

Am i right with this?
Or is there a better way to close a Listen after the user touch Ignore?

Thanks in advance
Viktoria Dovgal
Join date: 29 Jul 2007
Posts: 3,593
08-04-2008 10:21
Instead of building and tearing down listens all day, you could use llListenControl to make it trigger events or not as needed.

There is going to be a certain amount of overhead for every event that gets triggered. A timer isn't a bad thing at all, if it stops you from processing listens that you are going to discard anyway.
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Kaylan Draken
Registered User
Join date: 2 Dec 2006
Posts: 127
08-04-2008 10:37
Thanks Victoria,

i didn't know that command.
If i read the lslwiki correctly then i use llListenControl in stead of llListenRemove.
the situation will then look like:

State_entry
- Set llListen

Touch_Event
- llListenControl(handle, true)
- Set llDialog

Listen
- handle menu options
- llListenControl(handle, false)

But in case the user click on Ignore the listen_event will keep 'Open'.
Is it better to let is open or close it with a timer event?

I mean in case the script is touched often a day (15 times a hour or more).