Menu to Communicate - Multiple Objects

[Biscoito Bonetto]

Hello,

I'm new in scripts and I'm trying to make a menu that will change the textures of multiples objetcs.

For example: For object01: texture01, texture02 and texture03. For object02: texture04 and texture05.

My question is how to communicate these objects to a menu?

To test it, I put this script in one object to make the menu:

list texturechoices = ["texture01", "texture02", "texture03"];
string msg = "Please make a choice.";
key ToucherID;
integer channel_dialog;
integer listen_id;
     default {
    state_entry() {
        llSetScriptState("texturedefault", TRUE);
    channel_dialog = ( -1234 * (integer)("0x"+llGetSubString((string)llGetKey(),-5,-1)) );
  }
  touch_start(integer total_number) {
    ToucherID = llDetectedKey(0);
    llDialog(ToucherID, msg, texturechoices, channel_dialog);
    listen_id = llListen( channel_dialog, "", ToucherID, "");
  }
}

 

And this script in other object to receive the commands of the menu:

default
    {
    state_entry()
    {
        llListen(-1234,"","",""); 
        llOffsetTexture(0, 0, -1);
        llSetTexture("texturedefault", ALL_SIDES); 
    }
    on_rez(integer start_param) {
        llResetScript();
        llOffsetTexture(0, 0, -1);
        llSetTexture("texturedefault", ALL_SIDES);  
    }
    listen(integer c,string n,key id, string m)
    {

        if(m == "texture01")
        {      
                llOffsetTexture(0, 0, -1);
                llSetTexture("texture01", ALL_SIDES);

        }
        if(m == "texture02")
        {
            llSetTexture("texture02", ALL_SIDES);
        }
        if(m == "texture03")
        {      
                llOffsetTexture(0, 0, -1);
                llSetTexture("texture03", ALL_SIDES);

        }
    }
}

 Sure, It didn't work. But I think that the problem is only with menu and how to communicate it with multiples objects using llListen.

Thanks for your time!

[Rolig Loon]

Well, yes.... You are sending a message on a channel that is equal to -1234 times a hefty number based on the sender's UUID but the receiving objectis listening for a message on channel -1234.  It will never hear a thing  If you want it to hear on channel -1234, you have to send on channel -1234

If you are dealing with unlinked objects, this is one way to change textures and colors. If your objects are linked, though, it is much better to use llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast to do the job  It's faster, and you save the sim overhead on running several scripts when one will do

[Dora Gustafson]

Take a look at this contribution in the Scripting Library.
It is for linked prims.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

May I say 'well done' on the way you have asked this question.  By showing us the code we can spot the problem.  "It doesn't work" could have been better but at least we were able to read and check.  Many other people are only saying "I can't get my script to work, what do I do?" or similar, without showing us what they have.  Not a lot we can do for them :-(

[Void Singer]

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PeterCanessa Oh wrote:

May I say 'well done' on the way you have asked this question.  By showing us the code we can spot the problem.  "It doesn't work" could have been better but at least we were able to read and check.  Many other people are only saying "I can't get my script to work, what do I do?" or similar, without showing us what they have.  Not a lot we can do for them :-(

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to this I say, "amen"....

if anyone is reading this, and thinking of asking for help... PLEASE post up the code of at least the portion you are having trouble with.... preferably the whole thing.... or a simplified version that also has the same problem. you get help and done so much faster this way....