Addition to Notecard Dispenser

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CX, I am very new to scripting myself but the first script I wrote from start to finish (yay me) was very much like this except it gives an object rather than a notecard. Following the guidance of other scripts, I put in a state_entry{} event with a call to llSetText that places text over the object at all times. I hope that helps. Here's the full script it you are interested:

// Give a single object in inventory
// a simple script that assumes there is only a single object in the inventory
// by Madhu Maruti


// text to display to users - modify as you like
string display_text = "Touch for a glass\nof masala chai"; // text displayed over giver
string touch_text = "Enjoy your glass of masala chai, "; // said to user upon delivery

// other variables
string item;
key user;



// states
default
{
state_entry()
{
llSetText(display_text, <1,1,1>, 1.0);
item = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_OBJECT, 0);
}

touch_start(integer total_number)
{
user = llDetectedKey(0);
llSay(0, touch_text + llKey2Name(user));
llGiveInventory(user, item);
}
}

ConductorX, I have notecard givers with hovertext on them all over the place. If you contact me in-world, I'd be happy to give you the 2 compatible scripts I'm using.

The hovertext script is one I got from searching either the forums here, or the wiki. It's a color-change one.

Though the script Madhu posted here are good, yours looks ok too, CX.

What do you mean when you say the script crashes? Are you sure that the inventory of the object that your script is in also contains a notecard named My Notecard?

edit: might also want to do something like this..

touch_start(integer total_number)
{
	integer noteCount = llGetInventoryNumber (INVENTORY_NOTECARD);
	integer noteNum;

	for (noteNum = 0; noteNum < noteCount; ++noteNum)
	{
		string noteName = llGetInventoryName (INVENTORY_NOTECARD, noteNum);
		integer user;
		for (user = 0; user < total_number; ++user)
		{
			llGiveInventory(llDetectedKey(user), noteName);
		}
	}
}

...which I haven't even compiled (at work here) let alone tested.

It will give anybody who touches it all notecards in the object inventory and you can add/change notecards without having to reset the script.

I am writing the script inworld, when I save the script with my changes I get a compile error. So it doesn't actually crash... it just never compiles.

I'll try out everyone's script and report back. I appreciate the help.

"CX"

Oooohhh..

edit: never mind.. crap advice..

/me does not see a problem with it. Can you post the entire script again? What error does it say when the compile fails?

What I posted works fine. It is my changes that mess it up. I didn't keep a copy because I never could get it to function.

"G"

Hopefully you do know about LSLEditor, writing offline and checking with lslint?

I have the editor, just haven't used it much.

I loaded Madhu's script and when I touch the cube the right info comes out but the script tries to give me the cube itself instead of the note card. So I am doing something wrong.

"CX"

Typo in that script. Change INVENTORY_OBJECT to be INVENTORY_NOTECARD.

edit: well, not really a typo - the script is for giving objects. If you want it to do a notecard instead, you need to tell it so by using INVENTORY_NOTECARD.

It is those tiny little things that make programmers pull their hair out. Luckily mine grows back.

Sorry, I should have been clearer - I think I said my script was for an object rather than a notecard, but I should have also told you how to change it for a notecard. :/ Sorry!

(and it wasn't a typo at all ... )

Madhu, it was easily fixed, no harm, no foul.

The dispenser works great and it gives out a New Joke everyday. I set up another one to dispense notecards about my mall.

"G"