Timing problem

Thanks everyone.
With the help of the Ping Pong thread I got a way of making something move up and down by voice command and touch. I have one problem. I want it speed up or slow down. The script is presently set for five speeds but it only travels in one.

Here is the script. Any suggestions?

vector whereamI;
vector Imgoingwhere;
vector Imnowat;
integer attarget;
integer listen_handle;
float thingspeed;


    movethething()
    {
        if (attarget == 0)
        {
            llSetPos(Imgoingwhere);
            attarget = 1;
        }
        else
        {
            llSetPos(whereamI);
            attarget = 0;
        }

    }



default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        attarget = 0;
        thingspeed = 0;
        whereamI = llGetPos();
        Imgoingwhere = whereamI + <0,0,0.3>;
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,TRUE);
        llSetAlpha(0,ALL_SIDES);
        llListenRemove(listen_handle);
        listen_handle = llListen(3006,"",NULL_KEY,"");
    }

    timer()
    {
    movethething();
    }

    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
    {
        if (message == "move 1")
        {
            llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES);
            llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,FALSE);
            thingspeed = 4;
            llSetTimerEvent(thingspeed);            
        }
    else if (message == "move 2")
    {
            thingspeed = 2;
        }
        else if (message == "move 3")
        {
            thingspeed = 1;
        }
        else if (message == "move 4")
        {
            thingspeed = 0.5;
        }
        else if (message == "move 5")
        {
            thingspeed = 0.001;
        }
        else if (message == "stop")
        {
            thingspeed = 0;
            llSetPos(whereamI);
            llSetTimerEvent(0);
            llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,TRUE);
            llSetAlpha(0,ALL_SIDES);
        }
        else if (message == "show")
        {
            llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES);
        }
    }


    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
    if (thingspeed == 0)
    {
        llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES);
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,FALSE);
        thingspeed = 4;
    }
    else if (thingspeed == 0.001)
    {
        thingspeed = 0;
        llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,TRUE);
        llSetAlpha(0,ALL_SIDES);
    }
    else if (thingspeed == 0.5)
    {
        thingspeed = 0.01;
    }
    else
    {
        thingspeed = thingspeed / 2;
    }
    }
}

As always, thanks for your help.

Owner

Move the llSetTimerEvent(thingspeed) out of the first if-block and place it after(!) the last if - block that asigns a value to the 'thingspeed' variable. That would be the "stop", in your case.

You can deal with the last if-block seperately.

//...
       if (message == "move 1")
       {
            llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES);
            llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,FALSE);
            thingspeed = 4;
            //llSetTimerEvent(thingspeed);          <== not needed here
       }
       //...rest of "move X" messages ...
       else if (message == "stop")
       {
            thingspeed = 0;
            llSetPos(whereamI);
            llSetStatus(STATUS_PHANTOM,TRUE);
            llSetAlpha(0,ALL_SIDES);
       }

       llSetTimerEvent(thingspeed);  <== put it here,

       if (message = "show")
        {
            llSetAlpha(1,ALL_SIDES);
        }
       //...

The only problem with that it is that it will reset the timer each time there is a message on the channel you specified (even if it's a wrong message), but since thingspeed doesn't change it shouldn't cause a problem (just a quick pause, probably).

Basically, you need to reset the timer each time the thingspeed variable changes to see an effect.

BTW, llSetPos and a bunch of other calls have a built in sript delay, so your fast speeds probably wont work anyways.