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Dialog and Pay?
Puka Sorbet
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Join date: 7 Jun 2008
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06-12-2008 01:36
Hello Everyone,

Your have to excuse my Ignorance on the forum of where to place this - as I'm new to this whole thing. But, I just got into the joy of scripting and was wondering If anyone could give me a hand on a script I'm having a bit of trouble, understanding.

I want to make a Dialog, which people navigate though to buy a product. I think I have the basic understanding of how to do a dialog script - still not sure on that yet - but I don't know how I would embed a buying request into the script, and thus to get what I need.

If anyone has any tips on this, I would be very grateful!
Qie Niangao
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Join date: 24 May 2006
Posts: 7,138
06-12-2008 03:45
Welcome to the forums, and to Scripting Tips.

To keep naughty scripters from swindling the public (any more than we do already :p ), the functions that take money from purchasers are kind of special, and require an explicit action of the purchaser (either "Buy" or "Pay" from the pie-menu). These can NOT be triggered by a script, as from within a series of dialogs.

To use "Pay", the script has to enable the "Pay" button by having a money() event handler. For how this all fits together, one might consult one of the sample "vendor" scripts in the script library.

With "Buy", a script can know after the fact if its object (or copy of its object) has been purchased, using the changed() event, specifically CHANGED_OWNER; see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/CHANGED_OWNER.

(For completeness: Theoretically it would be possible for a scripted object to be given to the intended purchaser, get debit permission from that purchaser, then go through a bunch of dialogs to decide what to give that purchaser and how much money to take from them. This isn't practical, though: purchasers shouldn't be willing to grant debit permission to such things, and even if they did, the script can't know if any llGiveMoney() transfer to the selling agent was successful--e.g., the buyer may not even have sufficient L$ balance for their purchase, and the script would have no way to know.)

Hope this helps.
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Puka Sorbet
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Join date: 7 Jun 2008
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06-12-2008 04:23
From: Qie Niangao
Welcome to the forums, and to Scripting Tips.

To keep naughty scripters from swindling the public (any more than we do already :p ), the functions that take money from purchasers are kind of special, and require an explicit action of the purchaser (either "Buy" or "Pay" from the pie-menu). These can NOT be triggered by a script, as from within a series of dialogs.

To use "Pay", the script has to enable the "Pay" button by having a money() event handler. For how this all fits together, one might consult one of the sample "vendor" scripts in the script library.

With "Buy", a script can know after the fact if its object (or copy of its object) has been purchased, using the changed() event, specifically CHANGED_OWNER; see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/CHANGED_OWNER.

(For completeness: Theoretically it would be possible for a scripted object to be given to the intended purchaser, get debit permission from that purchaser, then go through a bunch of dialogs to decide what to give that purchaser and how much money to take from them. This isn't practical, though: purchasers shouldn't be willing to grant debit permission to such things, and even if they did, the script can't know if any llGiveMoney() transfer to the selling agent was successful--e.g., the buyer may not even have sufficient L$ balance for their purchase, and the script would have no way to know.)

Hope this helps.


I see. Thank you very much for your help!