is this even possible?

I want to make object giver that will give out an object if the person puts in the right note card, so basically a person comes up to the object drops in their note card and gets the give an object.

How would I go a bout scripting this?

Thanks

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible but it would be an absolute pain to code. If you want someone to script this for you then go to the products wanted forum and ask since that's the proper place to ask, it probably won't be cheap though.

It doesn't have to be very difficult. But first, what is the right notecard? Is it the name of the card? Or is it what's in it?

Allow give intentory so that someone can drop the notecard in.
If you want to read the notecard use llGetNotecardLine
You might also want to put in an inventory clean up function to delete bad notecards
You will also need to either use touch function to find out who drop the card in since you cannot tell from any inventory functions.
If it's a one time give, do a giveinventory, wait a couple of seconds then die.

You can use llGetInventoryCreator

The problem with that approach is that a lot of folks get notecards from other people. No really. They do.

actually creator along with properties and content sould be a good way of limiting 'right' to cards created by a single person, and given out with specific information... like say gift certificates? getting the source of the drop is still an issue though.

Just in case you missed what Void said, I'll translate.

When you give an inventory item to a box, The owner of that inventory item changes, to the same as the owner of the box. Meaning that there's no way to know who dropped the card in the box.

Worse.. if you give out example notecards.. like say membership applications.. 99.999% of the time, they're going to enter their details into your notecard, so the creator will be you.

Notecards are a terrible way to do gift certificates, because notecards can be read, copied, and reconstructed. How hard is it to get a full perms notecard from the same creator, then just paste the right text into it?


I don't know what the OP's intended function is.. but an inventory drop on an object is a really "lacking" area of LSL.. there's got to be another way to do what the OP is after without relying on the inventory drop.

first, I would make sure that it is clear to the people dropping the notecards to stick to specific format. This would be the biggest issue I think you would encounter: Making sure that something that is the human-readable right answer is script-readable as such.

the basic outline I would follow would be

on start- clear any dropped inventory, verify that there is something to give out.
(reads in answer key if it is in a separate notecard)

user clicks object
object requests notecard from user, locks out all other users
allow the object to receive inventory
check for notecard item
read notecard to list
string compare each list element against answerkey
Correct? Then give item. Else, tell user "sorry, wrong"
delete notecard
unlocks for any user to use

Use llSensor to see if the creator is nearby, and if not then llWhisper a message?

yeah, I dunno about you guys, but I've been having the worst time with llGetInventoryCreator lately..the script can't see it..and neither can you when it's in the object's inventory..maybe broken?