Detect/Sense an object's over text

[NixSteven]

Hi There,

I am new to LSL Scripting and I am wanting to create a script. My idea is to rez a prim (lets say prim 1) next to another prim (prim 2) which has a hover text. And I want prim 1 to detect/sense the prim 2's hover text and send a message to me.

Can you please provide some guidelines how to implement this? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Rolig Loon]

If you can grab the UUID of prim 2 (possibly with a llSensor), then you ought to be able to use the llGetObjectDetails function's parameter OBJECT_TEXT to read its hover text.

[sandi Mexicola]

I didn't know you could do that!  👍

Edited August 25, 2022 by sandi Mexicola

[Quistess Alpha]

20 minutes ago, sandi Mexicola said:

I didn't know you could do that!  👍

It's a relatively new addition to llGetObjectDetails().

ETA: Specifically it was added to the wiki page on April 14th (2022).

Edited August 25, 2022 by Quistess Alpha

[NixSteven]

Thank you so much Rolig Loon. I will try this

[sandi Mexicola]

1 minute ago, Quistess Alpha said:

It's a relatively new addition to llGetObjectDetails().

Ah, OK, then I don't feel so bad! 

 

[Love Zhaoying]

1 hour ago, Quistess Alpha said:

It's a relatively new addition to llGetObjectDetails().

ETA: Specifically it was added to the wiki page on April 14th (2022).

They added it on my birthday, and I missed it!

A lot of us would have answered, "Nope, can't do that!"

Edited August 25, 2022 by Love Zhaoying

[sandi Mexicola]

Just now, Love Zhaoying said:

They added it on my birthday, and I missed it!

Happy (late) Birthday!  🎂

[NixSteven]

Hi there, can someone please explain me why i am unable to capture the hover text on some objects? I was able to capture the hover text of an object using 

 llGetObjectDetails((string)llDetectedKey(0),[OBJECT_TEXT])

But for some objects (which has active script in it) won't detect the hover text. I am confused. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

 

[Qie Niangao]

Possibly the detected object is a linkset and the hovertext is from a child link instead of the root? 

(If so, I don't think there's a way past that barrier with current script functionality. There's a recent accepted jira that would let us gradually walk the links of another object the way we can the scripted object itself, but there doesn't seem to be any development scheduled on it yet.)

[NixSteven]

I can get all the other object properties except OBJECT_TEXT which is very odd. How can I find out if an object is a linkset? Thank you Qie

[Qie Niangao]

Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned that an OBJECT_PRIM_COUNT larger than 1, would indicate a linkset. (Same functionality in a standalone call: llGetObjectPrimCount() but you're already doing an llGetObjectDetails for OBJECT_TEXT so can maybe save a frame.)

It would almost never work, but one function that might return the key of a child prim is llCastRay() if the aim is extraordinarily lucky. I'm not thinking of anything else that ever finds child links of other objects.

[Jenna Huntsman]

5 hours ago, NixSteven said:

Hi there, can someone please explain me why i am unable to capture the hover text on some objects? I was able to capture the hover text of an object using 

 llGetObjectDetails((string)llDetectedKey(0),[OBJECT_TEXT])

 

Using llDetectedKey would only work if:

• The script detecting for the event is in the root (assuming it's detecting for any children firing off an event)
• For events like touched, the prim must be set up to pass touches (default behaviour) - some scripted objects may change this. (See llPassTouches)

[Quistess Alpha]

7 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

Possibly the detected object is a linkset and the hovertext is from a child link instead of the root? 

FWIW I just tested it, and indeed, you only get the text from the specific prim specified, and the function is not limited by restricted permission objects. (There was no indication it would be, but it never hurts to check.)

As far as I can tell though, while you can get some info on a prim's linkset status with OBJECT_ROOT, OBJECT_PRIM_COUNT, and OBJECT_LINK_NUMBER, I don't see any obvious way to iterate through every link in a foreign linkset (in order to get the hovertext of every child).

 

[Qie Niangao]

36 minutes ago, Quistess Alpha said:

As far as I can tell though, while you can get some info on a prim's linkset status with OBJECT_ROOT, OBJECT_PRIM_COUNT, and OBJECT_LINK_NUMBER, I don't see any obvious way to iterate through every link in a foreign linkset (in order to get the hovertext of every child).

That's how I understand it, and why Lucy's feature request jira (cited above) would help. OBJECT_PRIM_COUNT tells how far to iterate the loop (analogous to how llGetNumberOfPrims() does for the scripted object itself) and then llGetObjectLinkKey() would fetch each child to inspect with llGetObjectDetails.

[Lucia Nightfire]

9 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

That's how I understand it, and why Lucy's feature request jira (cited above) would help. OBJECT_PRIM_COUNT tells how far to iterate the loop (analogous to how llGetNumberOfPrims() does for the scripted object itself) and then llGetObjectLinkKey() would fetch each child to inspect with llGetObjectDetails.

I was going to bring up that function at today's server meeting, but the Puppetry talk snowballed any/all other topics of discussion.

[NixSteven]

The problem is resolved now. Someone really kind helped me. The text was hovering above a transparent child prim above the root prim.

Thank you so much everyone