Vote Script Help?.

[Cardinia]

Can anyone help me change this so an avatar may vote once per day please?. And say they must wait 24 hours to vote again if they try clicking the prim again?.

 

string g_THANKS_MSG = "Thanks for voting";
// this will be in the hover text over the prim
string g_HOVER_TEXT = "Click here
& Vote for me!";
 
// -- dont need to edit anything below here probably unless you want to change
// how the message is delivered when someone votes. see: touch_start --
integer g_VOTES = 0;
// list of avis that voted
list g_VOTERS;
 
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
update()
{
    llSetText( g_HOVER_TEXT + "\n" + (string)g_VOTES + " votes", <1,1,1>, 1.0 );
}
 
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
integer addVote( key id )
{
    // check memory and purge the list if we are getting full
    if( llGetFreeMemory() < 1000 ) {
        g_VOTERS = [];
    }
 
    // make sure they have not voted already
    if( llListFindList( g_VOTERS, [id] ) == -1 ) {
        g_VOTES++;
        g_VOTERS = (g_VOTERS=[]) + g_VOTERS + [id];
        update();
        return TRUE;
    }    
 
    return FALSE;
}
 
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
default
{
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------
    state_entry()
    {
        update();
    }
 
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        integer i;
        for( i = 0; i < total_number; i++ ) {
            if( addVote( llDetectedKey(i))) {
                if( g_THANKS_MSG != "" ) {
                    // uncomment one and only one of these next 3 lines
                    //llWhisper( 0, g_THANKS_MESSAGE );
                    //llSay( 0, g_THANKS_MSG );        
                    llInstantMessage( llDetectedKey(i), g_THANKS_MSG );
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[Darkie Minotaur]

Do you want the voters to be able to vote once a day (let's say, one ava votes on Monday at 10 p.m., then they should be able to vote again on Tuesday at 0:01 a.m.) or 24 hours after they have voted?

About how many people do think would vote?

[Rolig Loon]

 All you need is a way to record the time when each person voted, and a way to remove voters from the list when they have been on it more than 24 hours.  It should work to just make these changes ...

list g_VOTERS;list gTimes;// ------------------------------------------------------------------------update(){	integer too_old = llGetUnixTime() - 86400; // This is the time exactly 24 hours ago	integer i;	for(i=llGetListLength(gTimes);i>=0;--i)	{		if (llList2Integer(gTimes,i) < too_old)	//Has this person been on the list more than 1 day?		{			g_VOTERS = llDeleteSubList(g_VOTERS,i,i);	//Remove person			gTimes = llDeleteSubList(gTimes,i,i);	//Remove time		}	}	}// ------------------------------------------------------------------------addVote( key id ){	// check memory and purge the list if we are getting full        // This is not really necessary, though unless you have LOADS of people each day	if( llGetFreeMemory() < 1000 )	{		g_VOTERS = [];	}	update();	// make sure they have not voted already	if( llListFindList( g_VOTERS, [id] ) == -1 )	{		g_VOTES++;		g_VOTERS = (g_VOTERS=[]) + g_VOTERS + [id];		gTimes += [llGetUnixTime()];	        llSetText( g_HOVER_TEXT + "\n" + (string)g_VOTES + " votes", <1,1,1>, 1.0 );	}}

 Leave the rest of the sctript alone unless you want to streamline it by removing some other unnecessary bits.

EDIT: Updated, as suggested by Ron  :smileywink:

[Ron Khondji]

What would happen if I vote today, then nobody else for the next 24+ hours and then me again?

In other words; it would  be better to 'update()' the gVOTERS list before checking if somebody is in there. 

[Rolig Loon]

Good point.  Updated above ^^.

[Ela Talaj]

There is no need to purge the list Rolig, make a circular buffer. Basically, we need to store the user id and a unix time integer so we could audit every hour or so. A circular list (buffer) could store up to 500 unique users given these conditions.

[Cardinia]

Is this compiled together already as I do not know how to script. Also by reading it I did not notice it would tell the person voting that they must wait 24 hours to vote again if they tried voting twice.

Could someone please put that all together so I may copy n paste it into sl. Thank you all for your help and suggestions!.

[Rolig Loon]

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Ela Talaj wrote:

There is no need to purge the list Rolig, make a circular buffer. Basically, we need to store the user id and a unix time integer so we could audit every hour or so. A circular list (buffer) could store up to 500 unique users given these conditions.

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That's true.  I was being lazy, though, and trying to show the OP how to get a workable result by adding no more than a few lines to the existing script. As I noted, there are other streamlining steps she should take too.  We're not in the business of creating new freebie scripts on demand in this forum, though, so something has to be left for the visiting scripter to do.