Detecting when you run out of L$. It's really impossible, isn't it?

From browsing these forums and the LSL wiki, I've determined the following:
- llGiveMoney always returns zero; it doesn't give any programmatic notification that your avatar is out of cash if you try to give more than you have.
- The Lindens say this is because the data's not immediately available, even though most of us are quite used to dataserver events and could certainly use such an event if LL would give it to us.
- An object cannot llGiveMoney to another object, so you can't use the money event to determine if the giving avatar actually has the right amount of cash.

Is this still the case? Is there really no way, in this enormous virtual economy, for a script to determine whether its owner doesn't have enough money to give someone else?

I ask because I have an alt who owns objects that give money to newbies. That account has no income source, and I only learn that she's out of cash when people start IMming me, saying "hey I clicked ur thing and I never got my lindonz!!!" This happens frequently, and it's really beginning to bug.

Scrape your alt's user page for the account balance.

You could set up a variable that is set at the start to the exact amount of linden's on the alt. Then, when it's clicked on, you subtract the number of lindens given out from the variable at the same time as the linden's are given. When the variable == 0 or variable < 0, you change it to state that there are no more linden to give out at that time. As well, you can have it IM a user when the variable < 100 to know that it's running low.

Damn, that's actually a pretty good idea. Seems like it might be a little bit of a challenge since that information is account-specific and password-protected, but I think I might know how to get to it.

That's a good idea too, and something that I'd considered. The problem I saw with it was that if I transferred money to the alt from my main, the item would get out of sync. I think she also pays some group debits too, since she's a co-owner of some of my groups. *hrm* I could probably fix that, though. However, thinking about it... my main account could have an object that let me reset the amount that my alt's money-countdown object whenever I sent the alt money. I would just tell the transmitter how much I had transferred, and the remote object would increment that amount.

Just have the script have a manual reset that when you, either as your alt or your main, tell the script a new number and it will reset the value of the variable.