Read Chat messages from llOwnerSay

[Tanatos Tantalus]

Hi Community

I just started learning LSL and decided to write a script that reads the chat and analyses the messages sent by my fishing rod to automatically calculate some income statistics. But somehow I cant get the script to listen to those messages generated by the rod (spoken via "llOwnerSay" i guess).

Using this listener code doesn't trigger a listen event after a fishing attempt gets posted to the chat:

llListen(PUBLIC_CHANNEL, "", "uuid-of-my-fising-rod-here", "");

Am I doing something wrong here? Or is it even possible to listen to those messages?

Thank you for your answers

[Innula Zenovka]

If the fishing rod is using llOwnerSay() then no, you're not going to be able to intercept the messages by script in a listen event (or anything else).    The simulator passes the message direct to the object's owner, and no channels are involved, so there is nothing that could fire a listen event.

There's a couple of other issues with the fragment, too. 

First, PUBLIC_CHANNEL is 0, the public chat channel, which I hope the fishing rod isn't using.   

Second, objects' uuids change each time the object is rezzed, so filtering messages by UUID wouldn't work too well anyway, since you'd have to read, and then enter, a new UUID each time you re-rezzed the fishing rod.

For reference, if you want to filter for messages coming from  particular objects that belong to you, the way to do it is:

integer iObjectChannel = 12345;//or whatever channel the object uses, obviously
key kOwner;
string strObjectName = "Object name goes here";
default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		kOwner = llGetOwner();
		llListen(iObjectChannel,strObjectName,"","");
		//filter for messages on that channel from objects with the correct name
	}

	listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
	{
		if(llGetOwnerKey(id) == kOwner){
			//if the uuid of the owner of whatever just sent a message is the same as the uuid of the owner of the object containing this script
			//then do stuff
		}
	}
}

But that wouldn't help you here.

[Tanatos Tantalus]

Thanks for the quick reply, your snippet looks helpful.

But I guess I'll have to find  another learning project. That golden text looks like it was sent via llOwnerSay.

[Ruthven Ravenhurst]

If you're talking about 7 Seas fishing rods. It does say some of the info on another hidden channel. But I can't remember if the Pro Rod comes with the instructions to us it, or if it's just with the area kit.

[Tanatos Tantalus]

No it is a Magic fishing rod