LlDialog

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Dialog

llDialog

Summary

Function: llDialog( key avatar, string message, list buttons, integer chat_channel );

247	Function ID
1.0	Forced Delay
10.0	Energy

Shows a dialog box on the avatar screen with message and buttons.

• key	avatar	–	avatar UUID
• string	message	–	message to be displayed
• list	buttons	–	button labels
• integer	chat_channel	–	output chat channel, any integer value

When a button is pressed, the avatar chats the text of the button label on chat_channel.
The position of the chat is where the prim was when the dialog button is pressed.

Button Order 9   10 11 6 7 8   3 4 5 0 1 2

Channel Constant Description DEBUG_CHANNEL 0x7FFFFFFF Chat channel reserved for script debugging and error messages, broadcasts to all nearby users. PUBLIC_CHANNEL 0x0 Chat channel that broadcasts to all nearby users. This channel is sometimes referred to as: open chat, local chat and public chat.

Caveats

• This function causes the script to sleep for 1.0 seconds.
• Messages sent on channel zero^[1] and DEBUG_CHANNEL are throttled to a rate of <200/10sec, per region, per owner/user.
  • Once the rate is exceeded, all following messages on channel zero or DEBUG_CHANNEL will be dropped until the send rate is again below 200/10sec for the previous 10 sec. Dropped messages, despite being dropped still count against the limit.
• There is no way by script to kill a dialog box.
• There is no way for the script to detect if the user clicked the small "ignore" button (no chat is generated as a result of pressing this button).
• There is no way to distinguish the input from a dialog box and regular chat made by the same user.
  • It is important to expect that the response may not be one of the buttons.
• If the listening prim is out of the 20 meter range of the sending prim when a button is pressed, it will not be able to hear the response.
  • This limitation affects attachments too if the wearer moves more than 20 meters from where the listener is located.

message limits

• If it exceeds 8 lines a scroll bar will appear.
• message must be less than 512 bytes and not empty. Otherwise it will shout an error on DEBUG_CHANNEL.

buttons limits

• If buttons is an empty list, it will default to as if it were ["OK"]
• An error will be shouted on DEBUG_CHANNEL, if...
  • there are more than 12 buttons.
  • any list item is not a string.
  • any list item string length (in bytes) is zero or greater than 24.

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Examples

<lsl>integer channel = 1000;

default {

   state_entry()
   {
       llListen(channel,"", "","");
   }

   touch_start(integer count)
   {
       llDialog(llDetectedKey(0), "This is a test dialog.\n\nPlease choose one of the below options.",
                ["Yes", "No", "0", "1"], channel);
   }
   
   listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string mes)
   {
       if(id == llGetOwnerKey(id))//won't listen to objects unless they aren't in the region.
           llSay(0,name + " (" + (string)llGetObjectDetails(id, (list)OBJECT_POS) + ") chose option " + mes);
   }

}</lsl>

Useful Snippets

<lsl>//Compact function to put buttons in "correct" human-readable order integer channel;

list order_buttons(list buttons) {

   return llList2List(buttons, -3, -1) + llList2List(buttons, -6, -4)
       + llList2List(buttons, -9, -7) + llList2List(buttons, -12, -10);

}

default {

   state_entry()
   {   // Create random channel within range [-1000000000,-2000000000]

channel = (integer)(llFrand(-1000000000.0) - 1000000000.0);

llListen(channel,"", "","");

   }

   touch_start(integer total_number)
   {
       llDialog(llDetectedKey(0),"\nPlease choose an option:\n",

order_buttons(["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"]),channel);

   }

   listen(integer _chan, string _name, key _id, string _option)
   {
       llSay(0, _name + " chose option " + _option);
   }

}</lsl>

Notes

It is a good idea to use a very negative channel (if never more negative than the most negative 32-bit integer that is -2,147,483,648), e.g., <lsl>// Create random channel within range [-1000000000,-2000000000] integer channel = (integer)(llFrand(-1000000000.0) - 1000000000.0);

llDialog(llDetectedKey(0), "Please choose one of the below options:",

   ["Yes", "No", "0", "1"], channel);</lsl>

Negative channels are popular for script communications because the client is unable to chat directly on those channels ("/-xxxx message" won't chat "message" on channel "-xxxx", it will chat "/-xxxx message" on channel zero). The only way to do so prior to llTextBox was to use llDialog which was limited to 24 bytes.

See Also

Events

•

listen

Functions

•	llListen
•	llTextBox
•	llRegionSay
•	llWhisper	–	Sends chat limited to 10 meters
•	llSay	–	Sends chat limited to 20 meters
•	llShout	–	Sends chat limited to 100 meters
•	llInstantMessage
•	llOwnerSay	–	Sends chat to the owner only

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Footnotes

1. ^ Channel zero is also known as: PUBLIC_CHANNEL, open chat, local chat and public chat

Signature
function void llDialog( key avatar, string message, list buttons, integer chat_channel );