Strange listen script behavior.

[Altier Verwood]

Hello forums, I have two scripts that talk back and forth at each other, but I can't get the second script to work. 

Here is the message sent by the first script

This script works, it just shouts a region say when touched

        nameTag = llGetSubString(llGetObjectName(), 0, 6);
        llRegionSay(-83951,nameTag); 
        llOwnerSay(nameTag);      

in the second script, the get substring in the listen doesn't seem to work, if i remove that part the script works and it hears the region say. 

 state_entry()  
{
    llListen(-83951, "", "", "");   
    nameTag = llGetSubString(llGetObjectName(), 0, 6);
}
    listen(integer chn, string nam, key id, string msg)
    {
    if (chn == -83951 && llGetSubString(msg, 0, 6) == nameTag)

 

 

[KT Kingsley]

It works for me using these scripts, where I've filled in some stuff needed for them to compile and run:

string nameTag;

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        nameTag = llGetSubString(llGetObjectName(), 0, 6);
        llRegionSay(-83951,nameTag); 
        llOwnerSay(nameTag);
    }
}

and

string nameTag;

default
{
    state_entry()  
    {
        llListen(-83951, "", "", "");   
        nameTag = llGetSubString(llGetObjectName(), 0, 6);
    }
    
    listen(integer chn, string nam, key id, string msg)
    {
        llOwnerSay ("msg " + msg);
        if (chn == -83951 && llGetSubString(msg, 0, 6) == nameTag)
        {
            llOwnerSay ("!!!");
        }
    }
}

The only idea I have is that in your case the first seven characters of both object's names are not identical. (In my example both objects were called "Object".)

Edited May 21, 2022 by KT Kingsley

[Altier Verwood]

Thank you for your reply, wow, i have no idea what changed, but it's working now, thank you for your reply! 

Edited May 21, 2022 by Altier Verwood

[Quistess Alpha]

1 minute ago, Altier Verwood said:

I can't have a space in the name of the object for it to work.

if you have extra spaces before or after, you'd have to use llStringTrim(); or similar to remove them.