Basic Question - Script that says something on a chat channel?

I'm guessing this will either be, so easy it's stupid, or no you can't do that!

All I'm after is:

To creat a prim, then when I (and only I) click on it, it then effectivly says:


/99menu


Into local chat.

This (I'm hoping) would then trigger something else nearby that's listening on the /99 channel.

Easy?
Not possible?

Thanks

Excellent, and many thanks.
Made a prim, put the code in, and got it to work (click and it says /99menu) meaning it comes up at the bottom left of my screen in green type.

However, there must be something different between what this is doing and actually typing it into local chat by hand.

As I say, there's a script that is listening on channel 99 (in this case) and when you type "/99menu" in local chat, this other script pops up a menu

However, when this script says it's "/99menu" in green. Nothing happens (the other script I guess cannot hear it?)

Any thoughts?

Why not use channel 99?

touch_start(integer num)
{
    if (llDetectedKey(0) == llGetOwner()) llSay(99," menu");
}

Thanks for this.

The 1st suggestion by Ron, did actually put the text (in green) /99menu on the screen, though it did not trigger the other local item to "hear" the word "Menu" on channel 99

I tried your suggestion of using 99 in the 1st place, but nothing at all seems to happen.
Nothing comes up on screen (I guess cos it's not on channel 0" and the other item that's listening for the "menu" work on 99 does not pick it up.

Obviously (at the moment) it seems that typing into local yourself

/99menu

Is doing something different than the suggestions so far.

Unless being new I've messed up the script layout? (It could well be !!!)

Here is the total I put in the script (based on the 2nd idea)

==========================================

default
{
touch_start(integer num)
{
if (llDetectedKey(0) == llGetOwner()) llSay(99," menu";
}

}

==========================================

it's probably only listening for the owner.

try this

default
{
touch_start(integer num)
{
if(llDetectedKey(0) == llGetOwner())llDialog(llDetectedKey(0),"click a button",["menu", "cancel"],99);
}
}
}

of course the cancel button isn't needed, as it doesn't really do anything

You have a leading space in front of " menu".

However I suspect Ruthven has the correct approach.

Absolutly FANTASTIC.

Works perfectly

Many many many MANY thanks

hmm, Suezanne, that IE script you have linked in your signature, i just installed it, but it doesn't seem to be working

That script works with IE Pro, not IE.

IE7Pro is an add-on to Internet Explorer 7 that, along with a number of other functions, allows Javascript userscripts in Internet Explorer, similar to how Greasemonkey allows userscripts in Firefox. Once you've installed IE7Pro, you should then be able to install the userscript for fixing up our broken forum vBCode.

So IE7Pro works with IE, and the userscript works with IE through IE7Pro.

I have a thread started in Resident Answers on that topic, so either that thread or the BBCode Emulation sticky thread would be a better place to discuss it than this thread. Fortunately the OP's question has been answered.

The thread I started in hopes of getting some BBCode relief for Internet Explorer users is at /327/e0/306236/1.html , titled "Help with BBcode for IE7 users".

Note that I did not write the javascript, it was written by SL user Protector Cone . Since the source code is viewable Javascript, it can be modified, so if it's not working for Ruthven then perhaps it can be made to work.

i did install IE7Pro. i checked to make sure everything is enabled. i can look at the same page in firefox and it's formatted correctly, but on IE i still see the php tages and all that. i also don't like how IE7Pro opens a new tab when i type an address. maybe i didn't read into it enough to see if i could turn that off. i just installed it real quick before i headed to work. it's all good though, i'll just stick with firefox.

php tags and quotes are not built in to that scripts. It is barebones basic and will enable urls, images, bold, underline and italic:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Second Life Forum BBCode Parser
// @namespace    http://iescripts.org
// @author       Protector Cone
// @include      http://forums.secondlife.com/*
// @description  Parse BBCode on the Second Life fora.
// @date         6-2-2009
// @version      1.0
// ==/UserScript==


(function(){

var div, content, mat, reg;
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
for (var i=0, j=divs.length; i<j; ++i){
  div = divs;
  if (div && div.id && div.id.slice(0,13) == 'post_message_'){
    content = div.innerHTML;
    if (content){
      // URL
      content = content.replace(/\[url\](.+?)\[\/url\]/gi,'<a href=$1>$1</a>');
      content = content.replace(/\(.+?)\[\/url\]/gim,'<a href=$1>$2</a>');
      // img
      content = content.replace(/\[img\](.+?)\[\/img\]/gi,'<img src=$1>');
      // b
      content = content.replace(/\[b\](.+?)\[\/b\]/gi,'<b>$1</b>');
      // i
      content = content.replace(/\[i\](.+?)\[\/i\]/gi,'<i>$1</i>');
      // u
      content = content.replace(/\[u\](.+?)\[\/u\]/gi,'<u>$1</u>');
      div.innerHTML = content;
    }
  }
}
})();

The thought of people switching from Firefox to IE never entered my head.

Ha ha ha, people switching from FF to IE, whoo hooo!!!! LOL!

The script is for people who for whatever reason don't want to switch from Internet Explorer.

sometimes it freezes up and/or takes forever to load a page, i really only switched to firefox so i could install greasemonkey.

You could try chrome, if memory serves, you can install a Greasemonkey for Chrome, and Strike's script, one that works in Firefox, will work there.

I wish that Strife would give a try to working on a "BBCode in Text for IE" script, but I think he may dislike Internet Explorer enough to make that unlikely.