HELP! Dance Hud

Need some help with a dance hud problem... It is a standard script that you drop the dances in the hud and it gives you a menu (11 total) of dances. That all works fine.

The problem is if I give it to a friend we are in the same channel....
Each time I use it it has the permission pop up to ok animation and visa versa for my friend... If I go in and change the channel on mine then the pproblem goes away.

HOW do I get around this with out having to manually change the channel number each time I want someone to have it???
Can the chat channel be random generated or ????? or can the channel be read from a notecard, at least that would be easier... help....

I really don't have that much code experiemce, a novice... and dangerous...

Here is the code....

// Just add this script into a prim with up to 11 dances and touch the prim to start

list attachPoints = [
ATTACH_HUD_TOP_RIGHT,
ATTACH_HUD_TOP_CENTER,
ATTACH_HUD_TOP_LEFT,
ATTACH_HUD_BOTTOM_RIGHT,
ATTACH_HUD_BOTTOM,
ATTACH_HUD_BOTTOM_LEFT
];

string dances;
list dance_buttons;
integer chat_channel = -27;
integer dance_number;

stopAllDances()
{
integer total_dances = llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_ANIMATION);
integer i = 0;
while(i < total_dances)
{
llStopAnimation(llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_ANIMATION, i++));
}
}

default
{
state_entry()
{
integer total_dances = llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_ANIMATION);
if(total_dances > 11) total_dances = 11;
integer i = 0;
while(i < total_dances)
{
dances = (dances = "" + dances + (string)(++i) + " " + llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_ANIMATION, i) + "\n";
dance_buttons = (dance_buttons = []) + dance_buttons + (string)i;
}
dance_buttons = (dance_buttons = []) + dance_buttons + "STOP";
llListen(chat_channel, "", NULL_KEY, "";
}

touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llDialog(llDetectedKey(0), dances, dance_buttons, chat_channel);
}

listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
{
if(message == "STOP"
dance_number = -1;
else
dance_number = (integer)message - 1;
llRequestPermissions(id, PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
}

changed(integer change)
{
if(change & CHANGED_INVENTORY)
llResetScript();
}

run_time_permissions(integer perms)
{
if(perms & PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION)
{
stopAllDances();
if(dance_number > -1)
{
llStartAnimation(llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_ANIMATION, dance_number));
}
}
}
}

Right now it's listening to everybody and everything chatting on that channel. Where it says:

llListen(chat_channel, "", NULL_KEY, "";

try changing it to

llListen(chat_channel, "", llGetOwner(), "";

Now each HUD will only listen for dialog responses from its owner. Should fix you up.

TY, works like a charm... TY again, much appreciated.

Oops one other thing... listening for owner doesn't automatically update to start listening to the new owner if you sell it or give it away, it'll keep listening to *you* until the script is reset. So you might add something like this in your changed event handler:

if(change & CHANGED_OWNER)
llResetScript();

Either that or add an on_rez handler and reset there.

Yes I did find that out LOL and had them do a reset. It worked fine... I am a bit of a novice, like I said dangerous... where in the script would I put the reset snippet? That would make life easier for sure. TY

Simplest way would be to add it right under your other changed() thingy, so it would look like this:

if(change & CHANGED_INVENTORY)
llResetScript();
if(change & CHANGED_OWNER)
llResetScript();

There are other ways to do it but that way keeps it simple and easy to read - if Thing A happens, reset, oh by the way if Thing B happens reset too lol

TY... Try it later.