Can't detect child prim touch as different..

Building a few buttons for a HUD (first time). To start testing I made two panels and linked them. So i believe I have a parent and one child. I read that the Parent is the LAST of the linked prims, and put the script there (I've tried it both ways, just in case).

I've tried DetecedKey, getLink Number, Getlinkname, individually, and all together - but

I get the same response (the parent) regardless of which Prim I touch.

What COULD I be doing wrong? Any response would be greatly appreciated.

There's too many underlying assumptions about how you built your object and such..

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Unless the child prim has a script with a touch event in it then all touches are passed to the root prim automatically.

The link number of the prim touched in a touch event is returned by llDetectedLinkNumber(). The event will always trigger in the root prim, though. It will trigger in a child prim if that prim has a script in it with a touch_start() or other touch event.

Thanks for the input guys.

In putting together the script and output to display here - I tried an initialized unreferenced variable in the
integer panel= llDetectedLinkNumber(number);

previously I had the variable total_number from the Touch_end event.

Now it works.

Thanks

Glad to see you got it Tanoosh. Here is a simple, bare bones hud script that might help a little bit. Just create 4 prim, link them and then drop this script into the linkset:

integer prim_num;
string prim_name;
vector color;

say(){
	llOwnerSay( "Prim name: " + prim_name +
		", link #" + (string)prim_num + " touched." );
}
params(){
	llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_COLOR, ALL_SIDES, color, 0.6]);
	say();
}

default {
	touch_start( integer n ) {
		prim_num = llDetectedLinkNumber(0);
		prim_name= llGetLinkName(prim_num);
		if(prim_num == 1){
			color = <1, 1, 1>;
			params();
			llOwnerSay("I am also the Root Prim");
		}
		if(prim_num == 2){
			color = <0, 0, 1>;
			params();
		}
		if(prim_num == 3){
			color = <0, 1, 0>;
			params();
		}
		if(prim_num == 4){
			color = <1, 0, 0>;
			params();
		}
	}
}

I've left one frustration behind to move adroitly on to the next - thanks for code! it's useful now.