simulate touching event

hi,

is possible to simulate the "touch event" from another object ?

I have a sphere and a blackboard. I wouldl iike the sphere to simulate the touching event on the blackboard (or to call a function inside a script of the blackboard).

thanks

Definitely not enough info here... is that sphere an attachment? Is it just loose in the world? Does it move? What event happens to the sphere that is supposed to actually simulate the touch event... I don't understand and I don't think anyone else will unless you are more specific and clear either.

The sphere and the blackboard are 2 different objects in the world. They don't move.

The sphere is touched for the first time and then it should have a timer to send messages to the blackboard every 20 seconds.

I would like to simulate every 20 seconds what usually happen when I touch the blackboard.

I probably have to send a message and call the function inside the blackboard script which is usually called then I touch the blackboard.. this is the easier way to do it.

thanks

Touch the sphere - it talks. The blackboard listens.

Take a look in the wiki at 'llListen'

this is where user functions come in handy.... your blackboard will have one that is triggered from both the touch and the listen event, so that it does the exact same action regardless of which input method is used... eg

//-- blackboard
userFunction( key vKeyAv ){
  llSay( 0, llKey2Name( vKeyAv ) + " touched me" );
  return;
}

default{
  state_entry(){
    llListen( -42, "Ball", "", "" );
  }
  
  listen( integer vInt, string vStr, key vKey, string vStrMsg ){
    userFunction( (key)vStrMsg );
  }

  touch_end( integer vInt ){
    userFunction( llDetectedKey( 0 ) );
  }
}

and

//-- Ball
default{
  touch_end( integer vInt ){
    llSay( -42, (string)llDetectedKey( 0 ) );
  }
}

or why not llDetectedName?

because i'm too lazy to rewrite it and I figured that a key would be more likely for other uses (not that there needs to be an variable)