Open listen

quick question

I've seen tools that listen on every channel I wanted to make something to log object to object/av messages in my testbed using llOwnerSay to as a return avoid looping.

Would be glad if anyone could let me know how to work around this and before anyone prepares a lecture on server load this is for part of a tool not anything for sale or distribution.

there do seem to be tools out there that do this already but I'd like to know how rather than just depend on them

** reading through a little more I hear that this is impossible except in the above mentioned things that somehow do it ;/ is there perhaps some two stage way of doing this? I'm thinking along the lines of one stage identifying the channels currently being used in chat range then tuning into those channels specifically

i forget (nor do i feel like looking it up) the exact amount of possible listen channels but its in the billions? and you can only have 16 listens open at once so its a pretty tall order

then many scripts often set a new listen channel every session, so if i walk up to it i might get -23398472 the next guy could get -9876876

the most optmial solution would be to make a device that listens to the most used channel 1,99 ect but you would have to choose those

If this is for your testbed then you can set a script to listen to the specific channels you choose for your objects (unless they are random of course.) For your testbed, you can easily limit the range of channels used.

Each script can listen to 64 channels, so you would need multiple scripts to listen to more than that.

llListen(1, "", "", "";l
llListen(2, "", "", "";l
llListen(3, "", "", "";l
llListen(4, "", "", "";l

etc.

if you want to listen to every channel at once it's not to hard.... it just requires 268,435,456 scripts at 16 listens per script...... =)

the scripts mentioned above use several listens and cylce through different channels in blocks

How to work around what? Your question isn't at all clear.

Wish someone would post a link to an object that claims it can do this or the in world location of such an object. As noted here and in other threads, it would be impossible to scan all of the 4,294,967,294 channels. A quick search of onrez yielded one scanner that can scan up to 10,000 channels and another that can scan 32,000. Both would use the same techniques as laid out in the answers in this thread and neither would be all that sim freindly. Frankly my take on the object that can scan every channel is that it is a slurban legend

and no one thought 268 million scripts was funny? I need to work on my stand up routine some more... =P

I laughed, it immediately made me think of some griefer trying to build this sim lagger.

Aw Heck! I thought Void was serious!

made me chuckle

your right closest I've found is

http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=396959

the max is 64 listens per object, so have it listen for like 64 1 object 64 onother object ect ect

It is 64 per script, not per object.

ya that what i ment lol

ooo hey now we're down to 67,108,864 scripts... see and they say the forums aren't helpful... that's a savings of 200 million scripts... yay (this is still humor, just in case anyone is wondering =)