llSensor and llDialog

Hi there all

I've cobbled together part of a script that puts the names all of the people found in a X radius in a dialog box which is great, the thing I need to figure out is how do I keep myself/ or the object owner out of the dialog box. Basically how do I keep from taking up a button

Here's the part that I have

php

integer channel;
integer i;
string victim;
key target;

default
{
state_entry()
{
// Create random channel
channel= (integer)(llFrand(-1000000000.0));
}

touch_start(integer num_detected)
{
if (llDetectedKey(0) == llGetOwner())
{
llSensor("",NULL_KEY,AGENT,20,PI);
}
}

sensor(integer num)
{
list targets;
integer i;
if(num > 12)
num = 12;
for(i=0;i<num;i++)
{
targets += [llGetSubString(llDetectedName(i), 0 ,23)];
}
llDialog(llGetOwner(),"Batter Up",targets,channel);
}


}
/php

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

~Lyndz

Change this bit

 for(i=0;i<num;i++)
 		{
 			targets += [llGetSubString(llDetectedName(i), 0 ,23)];
 		}
 

to this

 for(i=0;i<num;i++)
 		{
 			if( llDetectedKey( i ) != llGetOwner() )
 			{
 				targets += [llGetSubString(llDetectedName(i), 0 ,23)];
 			}
 		}
 

And to keep from asking the simulator the same thing multiple times declare it a global like so for llGetOwner:

integer channel;
integer i;
key owner;

default {
	state_entry() {
// Create random channel
		channel = (integer) (llFrand(-1000000000.0));
		owner = llGetOwner();

	}

	touch_start(integer num_detected) {
		if (llDetectedKey(0) == owner) {
			llSensor("", NULL_KEY, AGENT, 20, PI);
		}
	}

	sensor(integer num) {
		list targets;
		if (num > 12)
			num = 12;
		for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
			if (llDetectedKey(i) != owner)
				targets +=[llGetSubString(llDetectedName(i), 0, 23)];
		}
		llDialog(owner, "Batter Up", targets, channel);
	}

}

If the owner is wearing the object, it will never sense the owner..... just FYI

That was the whole point of the question

Thanks for the help, I'll make th changes when I get in world.



I hadn't decided yet if it was an attachment or what so I just wanted to prepare of whatever I wind up doing with it

Thx,

Lyndz

NP and you got to learn 3 things from 3 different people in the process.

Keep on scripting and keep on learning!

just wondering, what is the reason for the random channel in the state entry? wouldn't it be better to generate that in the touch start?

I'll have to admit that I don't know, it's just the way I saw it done once and have done it that way since, though if it is better to do it on touch I'm willing to change my ways

Good question If you put it in the touch_start event then the simulator is having to generate a new random number every time it is touched. The same reason behind suggesting making llGetOwner a global variable.

Personally I always try to reduce the impact of a script as much as possible. To take it a step further; For scripts that are strictly for my own use I just enter a minus sign and hit a bunch of keys on the number pad to generate my own random number, it makes for just one more thing that the simulator doesn't have to do.

i know it's just an example script cause it doesn't have anything to use the names for. but the reason i ask that is because, the state entry only runs once, until you reset/save the script again. so depending if you have it scripted correctly, multiple instances of the script in the same area would interfere with each other because they all have the same channel derived from the state entry.