vector,s please help

Been trying to get teleport location from a obects name 1am here given up ,
hope from the code you can see the idea ,quite a good chance im doing it totaly wrong

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
         // string fred= llGetObjectName();
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
      //vector test=<1.0, 2.0, 3.0>;
      vector test= llGetObjectName();// TO OBVIOUS AND EASY TO EVER WORK ! 
  
         
     // vector test = fred // thought maybe make object name a string 


llOwnerSay((string)test.z); // Outputs 3.0

 
    }
}














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Er, well, llGetObjectName won't get you the object's position. Hence the name of the function.

What you want to use is a function which gets the object's position; llGetPos is the usual one, if the script is in the object you want to find the position of.

Typecasting is your friend! Here is a little test script that shows how it works. It is taking the current position and saving it to object name. When you touch the prim it will move 1 meter higher then it was.

default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		llSetObjectName((string)llGetPos());
	}
	touch_start(integer total_number)
	{
		llSetPos((vector)llGetObjectName() + <0,0,1>);
	}
}

cracked it !!! only 4 hrs head scratching this time , would of taken 4 months without your input Jesse

so thank you

Welcome to the wonderful world of scripting. Only gets worse before it starts to sink in and get better. Wish I was joking. Lost umpteen jillion hours of sleep the first couple of months. Extremely frustrating and yet even more rewarding! Made a 50 year old feel pretty good to slowly figure out all of this crap like all the youngins.

Never hesitate to pop in here and ask questions. We don't mind at all.

well jesse my brain is pritty old 41 tommorrow ,and half as smart as yours i think

i down loaded lsl editor yesterday what a god send that is

iv got this code to compile and work "eurika ! " i said, but toulk it back to sl and will not complie

setpos returns didgets beyound the dec point ,trying to round them


p.s am on the right track here? is this a example of typecasting? or sigh have i missed the point altogether

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
       llSetObjectName((string)llGetPos());
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        ///
        
        vector test=((vector )llGetObjectName() ); 
        
integer x = llRound(test.x);
integer y = llRound(test.y);
integer z = llRound(test.z);

     llSetObjectName((string)"<"+x+"."+y+"."+z+">"); // problem line compiles and works in lsl editor , dont work in sl 
  
        
    }
}


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You have to typecast each value individually:

uhm.. wouldn't it be a tad easier this way? or can the x/y/z-values of a vector not be rounded? Can't test this right now, but I thought, since llGetPos() returns a value without too many zeroes, it might work as well?

test.x = llRound(test.x);
test.y = llRound(test.y);
test.z = llRound(test.z);

llSetObjectName((string)test);

It's not _that_ different - it's just easier to read, I guess (if it works at all

I tried it like this earlier after Yumi's post. Even though it does round each axis up to just an integer, when you typecast it back to a string it will show the zeroes again as in:

<123.0000,123.0000,123.0000>

But the OP's now corrected attempt works:

<123,123,123>

except that Yumi didn't catch the OP's other mistake:

llSetObjectName("<"+(string)x+"."+(string)y+"."+(string)z+">";

need to replace the two period's with comma's.

llSetObjectName("<"+(string)x+","+(string)y+","+(string)z+">";

Why are you trying to typecast the objectname into a vector ?

Did you mean to get its position maybe ?

using object name and discription as a data store , to answer your question , seems you can,t write to a note card ,