llDialog help??

The docs say that llDialog allows up to 4 buttons, but I have seen as many as 12 (in a really great dance machine).

How is this done? Are they somehow combining multiple dialog boxes into one??

Or are the docs just wrong?

I am at work right now, scribbling up a muli-node teleport net and was hoping to have this ready to drop in by the time I got home, but I have more than 4 nodes in the net.

Each TP node should be able to select any other TP node in the net. All are within 200m of each other, so the method of the TP is not a problem.

I just am trying to save time by drawing on the expertise of this well seasoned group of scripters instead of re-inventing the wheel.

Anyone know the answer?

12 buttons is correct...and you can even have one button pull up a 2nd Dialog-box to give you another 12 buttons....etc...


The only limitation to 4 buttons I've seen is on the new SetPrice function.

The 4 button limit was increased a little bit back to 12. I recommend going to the wiki instead of the included HTML docos for anything LSL. LL is notoriously bad with not updaing their included reference guide. I have noticed large numbers of discrepencies of what the LSL doco has and is actual fact (and agrees with the Wiki).

Cool!

Thanks guys..
This make s things MUCH easier...



Now if we could just dig deeply underground to make bunkers and shelters.

Here's a snippet of code from one of my teleporter scripts. It handles many destinations all with a dialog. the gDest_list list is created by reading data from a notecard, and the index variable is a global variable that keeps track of the currently displayed part of the list and once the user makes a selection will hold the number of the list item.

touch_start(integer num)
{
        string text = "Please choose a destination: ";
        list buttons;
        integer i;
        integer len = llGetListLength(gDest_list);
        index = 0;
        if(len < 13)
        {
            for(i = 0; i < len; i++)
            {
                text += "\n" + (string)(i + 1) + ". " + llList2String(gDest_list,i);
                buttons += [(string)(i + 1)];
            }
            llDialog(llDetectedKey(0),text,buttons,gInput);
            gListen = llListen(gInput,"",llDetectedKey(0),"");
            return;
        }
        else
        {
            buttons += ["More..."];
            for(i = 0; i < 11; i++)
            {
                text += "\n" + (string)(i + 1) + ". " + llList2String(gDest_list,i);
                buttons += [(string)(i + 1)];
            }
            index = i;
            llDialog(llDetectedKey(0),text,buttons,gInput);
            gListen = llListen(gInput,"",llDetectedKey(0),"");
            return;
        }
    }
}

listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string message)
{
        llListenRemove(gListen);
        if(message == "More...")
        {
            integer i;
            integer len = llGetListLength(gDest_list);
            string text = "Destinations: ";
            list buttons;
            
            if((len - index) < 12)
            {
                for(i = index; i < len; i++)
                {
                    text += "\n" + (string)(i + 1) + ". " + llList2String(gDest_list,i);
                    buttons += [(string)(i + 1)];
                }
                llDialog(id,text,buttons,gInput);
                gListen = llListen(gInput,"",id,"");
                return;
            }
            else
            {
                buttons += ["More..."];
                for(i = index; i < (index + 10); i++)
                {
                    text += "\n" + (string)(i + 1) + ". " + llList2String(gDest_list,i);
                    buttons += [(string)(i + 1)];
                }
                index = i;
                llDialog(id,text,buttons,gInput);
                gListen = llListen(gInput,"",id,"");
                return;
            }
        }
        
        index = (integer)message - 1;
}

The index will be the selection from the list gDest_list (-1 of the number because the list starts from 0)