effect on right-click, effect on buy

Hi,

I've always thought it was impossible.. but the other day in a store I noticed a particle effect when I right-clicked, then I clicked buy which opened the normal buy dialog... when in that dialog I clicked "buy" another particle effect showed!

How did they do that? I've waited for a while to see if it was just random particles... but it wasn't...

Mmmhh, maybe it was the "effect" effect, like when you are editing an object. When a script is running you can see som little balls going round the objects.

Anyway when you click on "Buy..." the "Money" event is triggered: http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=money

and there you can do anything.

The "money" event is triggered by "pay", not "buy". "Buy" doesn't trigger anything unless the item is set "for sale: original", in which case it triggers changed(CHANGE_OWNER), but things aren't commonly set that way.

If the particle effect you saw was spinning white particles surrounding the object, that's built into SL and happens whenever a scripted object speaks.

There is a great chance the object had a particle system that had a defined lifetime using PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE. The effect of that is, the particle system will burst when it first comes into view, and last for so many seconds before stopping, but right-clicking/selecting the object will cause it to burst again.

Interesting... I'll check later today and I'll also post a slurl to the shop

As I recently stated in another thread, changed( CHANGED_OWNER ) is raised in an object whether it *or* a copy has been taken/purchased.

Thank you, Deanna--I thought I was losing my mind and was driven to actually test this again with an alt. (I realize this does not assure much about my mental state, however. )

As the wiki explains, one interesting twist about buying a copy is that the copy also gets the CHANGED_OWNER event when it's first rezzed, so to have different effects in the original and the copy, the script has to test the identity of the new owner against some record of who owned it previously (like llGetCreator, if that applies).

huh???

when someone buys a copy of my item, the original item changes owner?


i dont think so.


i HOPE NOT!


or do you mean the 'changed owner' change happens, but the owner doesnt actually change? do you have a link to the particular wiki page/post that explains this one?

--never mind, found it. still dont understand it.... but found it.

heehee CREATOR doesn't change

No, but the changed event is raised with the CHANGED_OWNER value passed to it.