How do I get a say command to wait a few seconds

How do I get a ||say command to wait 2 sec before executing the next ||say?


or any set interval...the timer function doesn't look like it would work.

llMinEventDelay looks like it might work but not sure or llSleep



thanks in advance for any help...

The llSetTimerEvent() command should work.

Or, if you use llInstantMessage, that delays 2 seconds automatically.

default
{
state_entry()
{
llSetTimerEvent(2.0);
}

timer()
{
llSay(0, "2 seconds have passed";
}
}

default
{
     touch_start(integer number)
     {
       llSay(0, "In two seconds I'll say 'Hi'");
       llSetTimerEvent(2);
      }
      timer()
      {
       llSay(0, "Hi");
       llResetScript();
       }
}

Would cause a script to warn its going to say hi, then pause two seconds and say hi... so I think the timer event would work fine for you!

ok I got the event timer to work on waiting for one say...but when I try and put 2 or three together...like for a counting down chat...it wont go to the next say and wait 2 sec then next say and then so on...


but I am headed in the right direction LOL

will use okiphia`s example for the sake of no loop

integer countdown;

default
{
touch_start(integer number)
{
countdown = 5;
llSay(0, "Starting count down from"+ (string)countdown);
llSetTimerEvent(1);
}
timer()
{
if (countdown > 0)
{
llSay(0, (string)countdown);
countdown--;
} else {
llSay(0, "Resetting";
llResetScript();
}
}
}

just using 1 sec timer for the example

edit: hard to know exatly what you want but you can control what it says with using a simple check, just define what you want it to say at each state

Took me a bit to figure out what exactly that was doing lol. must be early... anyway

Alicia did a perfect countdown for what you're doing it seems, but can't be sure... well ... she did a good no-state change, no loop countdown anyway.

You can't use a timer, then another time unfortunately, because it is an event... it would just be odd. You'd have two sections that were
timer()
as an event, and they would conflict...

So you have to do workarounds to that.

Also, though not generally recomended, you can use llSleep to pause before doing anything. With short pauses it doesn't hurt much, but longer pauses will queue up weverything and be not so happy... you could do it, but Alicia's method is a bit better.

Alicias will work fine for what I need ty


Still dont quite get why the other didnt work


This was the simple start of what I had


default
{
touch_start(integer num)

{llSetTimerEvent(5.0);

}
timer()
{
llSay(0, "One";
}
timer()
{


llSay(0, "Two";

}
}
I assumed it would wait 5 sec between the timers to do the says based on reading the wiki LOL

that is because there are 2 timers in the same state, only 1 allowed per state

gimme a minute to fiddle around with something

Thanks Alicia...its appreciated

If you look, you have two events called
timer()
with no way to differentiate. This makes it so when one timer runs out.. it tries to do both at oncve, which goes haywire. States are not done in order, they are jumped to. You could have a timer event listed much later in the script, and it would still be executed the same.

integer countdown = 5;
list countdown_list = ["zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five"];

default
{
touch_start(integer number)
{
llSay(0, "Starting count down from "+ llList2String(countdown_list, countdown));
llSetTimerEvent(1);
}

timer()
{
if (countdown > 0)
{
llSay(0, llList2String(countdown_list, countdown) );
countdown--;
} else {
llSay(0, "Resetting";
llResetScript();
}
}
}


if you lookup the llList2String function on the wiki (http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=lllist2string), you can see that i made a list with the numbers as text
calling the corrosponding list entry on countdown to get the text version

when countdown = 5, llList2String(countdown_list, 5 (as countdown is 5 at this time)
when countdown = 4, llList2String(countdown_list, 4 (as countdown is 4 at this time)

have added a "zero" to the list because list entries start at "0", so if you disect the list to numbers you get:

myString = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

so without "zero", you would get:

list countdown_list = ["one", "two", "three", "four", "five"];

countdown = 5
llList2String(countdown_list, countdown)

will return empty as countdown 5 is actually 6th entry in the list
you could simple add a minus in it to save a few bits in memory as the list is smaller

llList2String(countdown_list, (countdown - 1))

this would make countdown 5 call for list entry 4, added the () to it to make it clear something else is happening in that line


edit: with the "zero" in the list, you can use it aswell with changing "if (countdown > 0)" to "if (countdown >= 0)" and remove the llSay(0, "Resetting"; from } else { so after it says "0", the script resets with no message

Thankyou very much


I am still a novice at this scripting


Ty again for the excellent help...)

yw

i`d really recommend bookmarking the wiki to lookup things you want to use but give errors on tries
also there are a good amount of example scripts in the examples and library wich can show how others do stuff that you want to do but have no clue on how to do it

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal
http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage

also here in the library forum there are tons of scripts to look trough