Dumb thing I did while trying to redo a script.

I am very new to scripting as can be seen by previous threads.

One of my tenants came up with the idea of having a holodeck type skybox that she could build multiple scenes inside. I wrote a script to handle the basic stuff but i had to go modify the script and add a new section for each scene.

I decided to redo the script to make it notecard configurable and after doing the basic rewrite to create the new menus based on the notecards, i went to install and test the first stage. I pulled a copy of the original script in case something went totally wrong, I could reload the original until I found out what was wrong.

Anyway, every time i pulled up the menu I kept getting two dialog boxes, the new one and the old one. After spending several hours tearing the new script apart and retesting, I realized that the old script (that had a different name) was still running in the holodeck's inventory.

No real question, but I thought it might be useful to us new scripters and a laugh for you here that have been here awhile.

"[x] Running" is your friend. Click your friend.

I thought I had removed the original while still keeping a copy. On of those argh things when you find it after so many hours of fighting strange things in a program.

It's a good practice to put some sort of identifier in your scripts. In the state entry, drop an llSay (0,"my script 1.0"; in and it helps sometimes when you get off track like that. With something like that, you'd have caught your problem much sooner

I have a holo script I give away, full perms. IM me ingame if you'd like a copy, either to use or to compare approaches. It includes a fairly sophisticated notecard reader.

include version and product strings in your script name or code and a simple report feature. I like

if (llDetectedKey( 0 ) == llGetCreator()) { 
    llWhisper( DEBUG_CHANNEL, llGetScriptName() );
}

llOwnerSay() has been invented LOL (sorry I'm not that holy, but both llSay and now llWhisper are suggested in the thread and honestly: only the owner would be interested in that kind of information)

you may have missed that mine was actually set to respond to the creator, not the ower, although a response to a keyphrase such as "getv" might be better, and the same debug output... useful for upgrade inventory gives too.

although I was sloppy, it should be

if (llDetectedOwner( 0 ) == llGetCreator()){
  llWhisper( DEBUG_CHANNEL, llGetScriptName() );
}

why creator? because generally the user only wants to know 2 things... does what I have work, and if not is there a newer version that does?