Inventory drop question

Is there any way to tell who dropped the object into my object's inventory? I'm assuming I become the owner of that object once it's dropped into my object?

I havent written any code around this, but you should look at LlGetInventoryCreator() http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=LlGetInventoryCreator

Look around the LSL wiki under Inventory for various functions that might work towards your goal.

Geuis

This is to attempt a product update function, where the customer could come drop the old version in, and get a new version. I'll be the creator of the old version, so that won't help.

It's not full proof, but you could sensor it. and give to the first detected avatar. As you can tell there is the possibility that you'll sense someone who didn't drop the item.

I would think it would involve http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=Changed

Perhaps you could have two linked prims, one empty to accept the old item, then on changed see what the dropped item title was, then send a link message to the other prim to offer a new updated item to whoever touched it next within a timed window.

You could use llSetText or whisper to tell the user what to do.

hth

Ed

ps, can't tell you how pumped I am about offering a suggestion to Ziggy Puff!

Yes, I considered that... the person touches the object to start a 'transaction', then he drops the inventory within a time window, I could turn AllowedDrop on and off based on touch/drop/timeout to minimize the chance that someone who hasn't touched it first puts something in there.

But, that's not foolproof, and so it probably won't work for what I was thinking of. This is for a store, and there are likely to be multiple people around.

I also thought of having them rez the old object in world, I could sense that and check name/owner/creator and verify its legit. But then there's no way to ensure that they've deleted it, is there. No, I did not script a hidden "kill yourself" function into the old version

I considered sticking a script pin into the object for tackling such things in the future, but they're sold no-mod, so that's no good either.



LOL!!!

Ziggy: what's the context here? The items are transfer/no copy, so allowing them multiple copies (as in, they don't bother trading in the deprecated item but still get the new one) is a bad idea?

Yes, they are transfer/no copy, and the old ones will still be functional. Also, people sometimes buy multiple copies of the same item to later give out as gifts. Both of those mean I can't do this with "OK, you have one, so I'll give you another one".