Need script Help!

Hi, All:

Our research group hopes to do survey in SL automatically. (Let residents fill form, when finish, get payment in SL automatically)

Do you know how to fulfill it? or could you tell me any good examples?

Thanks

use dialogs and an incremented counter, along with a list that stores buth questions and another that stores answers

when the counter hits a certian number (your number of questions) they are done and get paid... you could even store the questions in a note card and read from it, but this will limit you on number of people accessing it at once... best bet is to report results to some other object or web server for accumulation/averaging

thank you very much for your reply.

I am a newbie here. could you recommend a place where I should start to learn how to program? thanks

The GUI for the scripting language is very limited. I think your best bet is to find a developer with both scripting and web programming experience (as related to SL) and have a good long chat with them, then find one or two other developers to get a second opinion. Don't promise a scripting job; your first task should be to survey what is possible in SL first. I think if you posted in Products Wanted and limited yourself to respondents with a long posting history in the scripting forums (and look up what they are saying) you can determine the best way to go about this.

Your options are something "mostly" in SL with results posted to a web server, or a more conventional web-only approach with the only SL component being something that serves up a URL to whoever touches it (a VERY easy task).

You can do a lot with Linden Scripting Language, a lot more than you could do in any other multiverse, but in many respects it is still a toy programming language and won't suit all your needs - just like a shopping cart is great for hauling groceries, but not for moving furniture across country.

there are several wiki's available to get started, however, depending on how you want to store the data, it may be a very complex job, especially if you are not storing it local to SL AND averaging your results almost immediately... if those two are not true you are going to need http calls, access to a web server most likely with php, and a lot of programming.

if you aren't a novice at writing code, it may be feasable to do it yourself, but I wouldn't reccomend it as a starter project even for an programmer experiened elswhere as you will run into several 'gotchas'...

if you have the time and patience for it, by all means, dive in, but as noted above, you'll find a quicker solution talking to someone experienced in the language, and it may be worth more to pay them than the time involved coding it yourself

the official LL Supported wiki is here
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal
and two of the more complete wiki's are

and
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php

NOTE: the last one, while very beginer friendly, and detailed, has an issue where clicking on a word sometimes triggers a link to the edit page (server misconfiguration?).. use right click, open link, to avoid this... there are mirrors of this elsewhere, I don't know their update frequency though.

there are also other wikis if one does a search fo 'LSL wiki'