Owner problems

Here's the story-

My combat system/HUD I am making shows text over your head. So I thought maybe it would be easy to make another object that will show the text on your HUD so you can see it in Mouselook. Well, I am having trouble making it so it'll only listen to owner and thats it. When a bunch of people have it on it randomly shows everyone's HP and obviously that doesn't help...

Here's my script for it. I am guessing something is definatly wrong.

integer healthlisten;
integer dead;
string ownername;

default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		ownername = llGetOwner();
		llSetTimerEvent(1);
		llListen(4859,"",NULL_KEY,"");
		llSetAlpha(0.0, ALL_SIDES);
	}
	on_rez(integer start_param)
	{
		llResetScript();
	}
	listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
	{
		if (ownername == llGetOwner())
		{
			healthlisten = (integer)message;
		}
	}
	timer()
	{
		llSetText("Health |  " + (string)healthlisten + " HP", <1,0,0>, 1.0);
	}
}

Also I want it so it'll say DEAD instead of the HP later, but I need to figure this problem out first. The other script communicates with this:

	timer()
	{
		llSetText("Health |  " + (string)health + " HP", <1,0,0>, 1);
		llSay(4859, (string)health);
		if (health <= 0)
		{
			llSetText("Health |  DEAD", <1,0,0>, 1);
			state dead;
		}
	}

llGetOwner() returns the owner's key, not name.

But that's what you want... so, to get what you're looking for:

if(id == ownername)

the id is passed to the event.

If you want to make the filter (the llListen) do the work:

llListen(4859,"",llGetOwner(),"";

then the listen() is only triggered when the owner speaks and you can do away with the if().

Okay I understand what you're saying. I tried both ways and each time it just keeps saying 0 HP. So I am guessing there's an owner issue maybe? Its my own HUD and stuff though ...

What are you saying to tell it its HP?

OK its supposed to display to me the current HP from the other part that says the current HP on channel 4859. But obviously other HUDs will hear it too. What else can I do to fix this?

Ah, well THAT is different. You're not listening for the owner, but for objects owned by the same owner. You can do that. Try this:


Your llListen():

llListen(4859,"",NULL_KEY,"";

your if():
if(llGetOwnerKey(id) == llGetOwner()) {}

Holy crap thank you VERY much! That makes so much sense to, grr, thanks very much!!