Gestures and Scripts

I've been asked this a couple of times now... how can you trigger a gesture from within a script? My belief is that it's not possible. Clearly you could replace a gesture by scripting it, but is there anyway to trigger a predefined gesture?

llDialog would seem the obvious method and while you can get it to repeat say: /boo on channel 0, the gesture is not triggered.

Anyone know if there's a trick to this?

According to the wiki: http://lslwiki.com/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=gesture

A gesture cannot be triggered by a script.

Thanks for the reference, Jokey, I just wanted to check to see if anyone knew differently... sometimes the manual is wrong.

You can not trigger a gesture. But a gesture is a compilation of sound, animation and chat. So you can use a script to call all 3 individual parts at the same time. I am not familiar with the "boo" gesture but you could easily make a script that when triggered would play sound "boo", animation "boo" and say "boo" in chat.

Can someone lead me to the place where I could cobble together this kind of script, one that imitates a gesture (animation, sound, chat)? Thanks very much.

... though I beleive you CAN make a gesture talk to a script. Imagine making a Gesture to draw a sword. You hit F2, and the script types into chat "/me draws her sabre, and readies it to attack her foe"... then in the next line, it types into chat "/887723 draw"

The scripted sword hears this on channel 887723, and plays the draw animation, and changes the visibility of the sword at your hip, and the formerly infisib;le sowrd on your hand.

It's a way for gestures and scripts to work together.