Basic scripting help - retrieving inventory items

Hi
I am new to Scripting so I am guessing what I am doing wrong is probably obvious. I have a couple of scripts to get an animation from the inventory to add to an object - ie I am trying to make a pose ball but my script cant retrieve the animation. Where am I going wrong? The function llGetInventoryType returns false even though I know the animation is there. I am thinking that I dont have to specify the pathway to the animation - that just the name should be enough...


string ANIMATION = "nameOfAnimation";

init()
{
if(llGetInventoryType(ANIMATION) != INVENTORY_ANIMATION)
{
if(llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_ANIMATION) == 0) // Make sure we actually got something to pose with.
{
llWhisper(0,"Error: No animation found. Cannot pose.";
animation = "sit";
}
else
animation = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_ANIMATION, 0);
}
else
animation = ANIMATION;
}

If I do this:

string ANIMATION = "nameOfAnimation";
string animation;

init()
{
    if(llGetInventoryType(ANIMATION) != INVENTORY_ANIMATION)
    {
        if(llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_ANIMATION) == 0) // Make sure we actually got something to pose with.
        {
            llWhisper(0,"Error: No animation found. Cannot pose.");
            animation = "sit";
        }
        else
            animation = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_ANIMATION, 0);
    }
    else
        animation = ANIMATION;
}


default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        init();
        llOwnerSay("Animation = " + animation);
    }
}

And I put an animation in the object named: nameOfAnimation

This result prints: Object: Animation = nameOfAnimation

Which seems to be correct.

The Inventory functions refer to the object's inventory not yours.

thanks for such a quick reply - I tried this but I still have the same problem - it compiles but fails to find the animation ie spits out "Error: No animation found. Cannot pose";

thanks Newgate that makes more sense then - and begs the next obvious question how do i put the animation into my objects inventory - perhaps this is where I need to go and do some more reading first!

OK GOT IT WORKED OUT!