Some issues with timers

Well the script i'm making at one point has a trigger which enables the prim and it has to be clicked within 3 seconds. I'm not quite sure how to get this to work as my methods have been giving me trouble.

First general attempt:

 touch_start()
 {
 	  if(active == TRUE)
 	   {
 			  llSay(0,"success");
 			  active == FALSE;
 		 }
 }
 //under the listen it has these commands
 if(message == "trigger")
 {
 	  active == TRUE;
 	  llSetTimerEvent(3);
 }
 //under the timer::
 timer()
 {
 	  if(active == TRUE)
 	  {
 			  llSay(0, "failure);
 			  active == FALSE;
 	   }
 }
 

Second Attempt used llSleep in this fashion:

 if(message == "trigger")
 {
 	  active = TRUE;
 	  llSleep(3);
 	  if(active == TRUE)
 	  {
 		   blah blah blah
 		}
 }
 

I didn't really expect the second version to work but it was worth experimenting lol. Either way the problem with the first one is that the touch isn't working and the timer doesn't register the whole 'if' statement it seems, and also keeps infinitely looping and i dunno how to make that stop... I may be using the completely wrong method but those are my general attempts.

/me points to the == (instead of =) on the 2nd line above. You're doing that every time you set it. Use == for testing a value, use = for setting a value.

You'll need to check that the second click is from the agent that first clicked it, and if it's not clear it down after 3 seconds....

key agent = NULL_KEY;
//
default {
	touch_start(integer number) {
		if (agent == NULL_KEY) {
			agent = llDetectedKey(0);
			llSetTimerEvent(3.0);
		} else if (llDetectedKey(0) == agent) {
			// do whatever
		}
	}
	
	timer() {
		agent = NULL_KEY;
		llSetTimerEvent(0.0);
	}
}

hth,
/esc