Remove avatar name from chat?

I got this really cool free attatchment on SLex. When you type on the specified channel, you do not see the avatar name. For example /7 Reno smiles would output Reno smiles, as apposed to Reno Katscher: Reno smiles

Can someone point me in the direction to start with this?

integer hListen;

Listen()
{
llListenRemove(hListen);
hListen = llListen(7, "", llGetOwner(), "";
}

default
{

state_entry()
{
Listen();
}
changed(integer change)
{
if(change & CHANGED_OWNER)
{
Listen();
}
}

listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
{
string firstword;
string remainder;
integer firstspace = llSubStringIndex(message, " ";
if(firstspace == -1)
{
firstword = message;
remainder = " ";
}
else
{
firstword = llGetSubString(message, 0, firstspace - 1);
remainder = llGetSubString(message, firstspace + 1, -1);
}
string name = llGetObjectName();
llSetObjectName(firstword);
llSay(0, "/me " + remainder);
llSetObjectName(name);
}

}

EDIT: Day Oh must have had more caffeine then me. All of that code and he still beat me

Per the wiki:

"Like avatars, objects can use "/me" on channel 0. Thus, if an object named "Your dog" had a script with the line:
llSay(0, "/me wants steak.";

The chat output would be:
Your dog wants steak."

So using that as a guideline, you could see that if the name of the object was blank then that same line of script would output: "wants steak". Sooooooooooooo next logical step would be to do this:

string obj_name;

default {
    state_entry() {
        obj_name = llGetObjectName();
        llListen(7, "", llGetOwner(), "");
    }
    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message) {
        llSetObjectName("");
        message = "/me " + message;
        llSay(0, message);
        llSetObjectName(obj_name);
    }
}

That temporarily erases the name of the object so that when you type into chat:
"/7 Mary had a little lamb" it will output:
"Mary had a little lamb" with no object name preceding it.

Disclaimer: Don't use something like this for greifing. Anyone with half a brain can find where the text is coming from and can abuse report it

But to be sim freindly, you don't really won't to be walking around with an open listen on a common channel like 7 all day long. It is better to so that when you touch it, it will open a listen for a set amount of time and then remove the listen when it times out:

string obj_name;
integer handle;

default {
	state_entry() {
		obj_name = llGetObjectName();
	}
	touch_start(integer n) {
		llSetTimerEvent(20.0);
		handle = llListen(7, "", llGetOwner(), "");
	}
	listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message) {
		llSetObjectName("");
		message = "/me " + message;
		llSay(0, message);
		llSetObjectName(obj_name);
	}
	timer() {
		llListenRemove(handle);
	}
}

Thanks guys!

No worries...I won't be griefing...thinking more along the lines of some private emoting

And is there a way to make the text output not green? I know that is a client setting to have objects talk in green but anyway to set it to white?

An owner-only filtered listen on channel 7 wouldn't be a problem.

An owner only message will still have to filter every message said on channel 7 in the simulator. 1st by distance and then by key.

I lose though, for not just setting the object name to ""

There's no way you can do so for other people, but I believe each user can do so in his/her preferences. That's a security measure, so that you can easily distinguish a resident from an object used to speak in someone else's name.