Get a Prim in an Object

I've been delving through the WIKI looking from some sort of command function like:

llGetPrim(x);...where (x) would be the link number of the prim...and the function would simply select the prim of link number (x).

I can't find such a function. Does anyone know of such a function? Or a work around to get the same type of thing?

(script is counting total number of prims in an object, then acting upon certain prims of numbers x, y, z)

I'm not totally sure what you mean by "select", but I think you probably want llGetLinkName. There may be another link function that does what you want, though. See the LSL wiki's "link" page for a complete list.

There's llGetLinkNumber() - you could have each child report itself to the parent, and the parent script would select the highest number, thus the number of prims in the object.
llGetLinkName() is also a possibility (Run through the numbers until you get a NULL_KEY).

Try looking here. You will find llGetNumberOfPrims handy for counting. As for your other problem, Im not sure what exactly you're doing when you say "acting upon prims", so I cant be of much help.
==Chris

Thanks for the help.

Yea, I've already got the llGetNumberOfPrims thing goin'...


That's where the problem lies...take, for example...the following script format:

integer x = 0;
integer prims = llGetNumberOfPrims();

WHILE (x < = prims)
{
x = x +1;
_currentPrim = --FunctionCallI'mMissing--(x);

(Do stuff to the _currentPrim)
}

Can not do that, save for things like llSetLinkAlpha() and llSetLinkColor().

What you'll probably want to do is put a control script in each child prim, and order it to do it's thing with llMessageLinked().

Thanks Jillian. Too bad it's not possible to do that, but there's always a work around. Appreciate it.