Help with finding an offline agent's name

Hi,

I am writing a lotto script that will payout to a user when the user is offline ...

Currently the script stores a key representing the last winner. I would like the llSetText() to display who the last winner is but when I do an llKey2Name(last_winner), if the player is offline, I end up with nothing...

How can I find the name of an offline player if I have his key?

Thanks every so much,
Jack Lambert

Use the dataserver luke....

llRequestAgentData, is the function you want IIRC.

-Adam

llKey2Name only works if the user is online AND in the same simulator as the scripted object.

See: http://www.badgeometry.com/wiki/llKey2Name

Use llRequestAgentData and the dataserver event instead.

See: http://www.badgeometry.com/wiki/llRequestAgentData

What Adam said!

I did actually try that a bit before coming here...

key lastwinner = {long key string};
string temp = llKey2Name(llRequestAgentData(lastwinner, DATA_NAME));

llSetText("Last winner: " + temp, <255,255,255>, 1.5);


...


I still end up with nada in the SetText()

llRequestAgentData will request data from the dataserver, and will return a unique value representing the request, not the information you are looking for.

You have to then use the dataserver event handler to actually receive the requested agent data. See the wiki example at...

http://www.badgeometry.com/wiki/llRequestAgentData

example

key requestID;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetText("Initialized", <1,1,1>, 1);
    }

    touch_start(integer num_detected)
    {
      //Get the key of the person touching the prim
      key id = llDetectedKey(0);
      
      //Request the name of the agent
      //Useful for when the agent is outside of the sim or not online
      requestID = llRequestAgentData(id, DATA_NAME);
      
      //Note, yes yes you can use llDetectedName to get the name!
      //This is just a simple example illustrating the use of llRequestAgentData
    }
    dataserver(key queryid, string data)
    {
      //If this is the dataserver request we made, display the name
      if (queryid == requestID)
      {
        llSetText("Touched By: " + data, <1,1,1>, 1);
      }
    }
}

Ahhhh, that did it. Thanks ever so much

--Jack