Puzzled

I have put together these two scripts from various sources, and when I issue the command to turn on, it turns on just for 1 cycle of the particle, then stops. If I use the particle by itself it works fine.

The BaseCommand script is in the base object, which was the last item selected before making the link. The other script is in each child item

Control Script

key owner;
integer listenID;


init()
{
    owner = llGetOwner();       //get owner's key
    llListenRemove(listenID);   //remove any previous listen
    listenID = llListen(1,"",owner,"");    //setup a listen for current owner
}

integer mfCompare(string required, string message)
{
    if (llSubStringIndex(llToLower(message), llToLower(required)) == 0) { return TRUE;}
    return FALSE;
}

default
{
    //state_entry - launches whenever the script is reset (or on change of
    //state but this script doesn't use other states!)
    state_entry()
    {
        init();
    }
    
    //on_rez - launches whenever the object is rezzed
    on_rez(integer times)
    {
        init();
    }
    
    //listen - when something is said that matches the llListen setup in init()
    //this function will run, with message = what was said
    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
    {
        //checks to see if what the owner has said matches the cmd string, if it does then
        //we going inside the if statement
        if (mfCompare("bling off",message)) {
            llMessageLinked(LINK_SET, 0,"BOFF",NULL_KEY);
        }
        if (mfCompare("bling on",message)) {
            llMessageLinked(LINK_SET, 0,"BON",NULL_KEY);
        }
    }
}

child prim script:

integer iBlingState = TRUE;

TurnBlingOn()
{
    llParticleSystem([  7,0.3,0,291,5,<0.04,0.25,0.0>,6,<0.03,0.25,0.0>,9,2,13,0.309999,15,20,17,0.1,18,0.1]);
    iBlingState = TRUE;
}

TurnBlingOff()
{
    llParticleSystem([]);    
    iBlingState = FALSE;
}


default
{
    link_message(integer sender_num, integer num, string sMsg, key id)
    {
        if (sMsg == "BON")
        {
            TurnBlingOn();
        };
        if (sMsg = "BOFF")
        {
            TurnBlingOff();
        };
    }
}

Everything looks like it should turn on and stay on, but it doesn't. Any ideas?

Sorry, I didn't look at this carefully, but I've been nervous about these unnecessary semi colons.

Just a few things that may not be the cause:

- The bitmask for PSYS_PART_FLAGS seems really high in your case (0,291). You're only using scale (and maybe wind, etc).
- You could mess with PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE, although I thought the default if not set was basically infinite.
- Just an elegance question: do you need the iBlingState boolean?
- You might change your particle attributes to the actual string labels (or keep a version of that string around somewhere) - makes trouble shooting a bit easier. At least for me.

I see these other two replies, which may have more to offer for your problem. My suggestions are only coding cleanups.

MM

Thank you all - it was the second IF statement.. and I wasn't seeing it no matter how much I looked at it.

I removed the extra ; also, just in case. The logical's are part of future expansion.. I wanted to get each section working first, and not have to try to debug a huge script. *grin*

Yeah, I figured that might be the case. Wasn't trying to nitpick. Glad you got it working!

MM