Describe Chatter

Introduction

Your avatar in second life is differently anonymous than yourself in real life. Any other avatar and any thing can ask what your avatar's name is, what your avatar's date-of-birth is, whether payment info is on file for your avatar, etc. The Linden servers discuss your avatar in these ways without asking you for permission and without notifying you.

If you can see who is chatting, then Profile > 2nd Life will tell you things like Currently Online, Born mm/dd/yyyy, No Payment Info On File. If you don't know that, or if you can't be bothered to go there, or if you can't see who is chatting, then this script will tell you those kinds of things too.

Sample Results

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J Doe

Born 2007-09-01

Has no money

Online

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Code

// Chat to see yourself as others do
// http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Describe_Chatter

key theDataNameKey;
key theDataBornKey;
key theDataPayInfoKey;
key theDataOnlineKey;

integer sendableKeyings = 4;
integer receivedKeyings;

string theDataNameString;
string theDataBornString;
string theDataPayInfoString;
string theDataOnlineString;

// Say why chat with this script

startup()
{
    scrubKeys();
    llOwnerSay("You chat at the mirror, mirror, on the wall ...");
    list lines = [llGetObjectName(), llGetObjectDesc()];
    string label = llDumpList2String(lines, "\n---\n");
    llSetText(label, <1.0, 1.0, 1.0>, 1.0);
}

// Forget old chat

scrubKeys()
{
    llSetText("", <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>, 1.0);
    
    theDataNameKey = NULL_KEY;
    theDataBornKey = NULL_KEY;
    theDataPayInfoKey = NULL_KEY;
    theDataOnlineKey = NULL_KEY;
    
    receivedKeyings = 0;    
}

// Float an image of the chatter above the object

receiveKeys()
{
    string text = ""
        + "---\n" + " \n"
        + theDataNameString + "\n" + " \n"
        + "Born " + theDataBornString + "\n" + " \n"
        + toPayInfoEcho(theDataPayInfoString) + "\n" + " \n"
        + toOnlineEcho(theDataOnlineString) + "\n" + " \n"
        + "---\n" + " \n "
        ;
    vector color = <0.0, 1.0, 1.0>;
    float opacity = 1.0;
    llSetText(text, color, opacity);
}      

// Convert to string from PAYMENT_INFO

string toPayInfoEcho(string data)
{
    integer payInfo = (integer)data;
    if(payInfo  & ~(PAYMENT_INFO_ON_FILE | PAYMENT_INFO_USED))
        return data;
    integer not_has = !(payInfo & PAYMENT_INFO_ON_FILE);
    integer not_used = !(payInfo & PAYMENT_INFO_USED);
    string out = "Has ";
    if(not_has)
        out += "not ";
    if(not_has == not_used)//use the proper conjunction
        out += "used but does";
    else
        out += "used and does";
    if(not_used)
        out += " not";
    return out + " have payment info on file";
}

// Convert to string from DATA_ONLINE

string toOnlineEcho(string data)
{
    integer online = (integer) data;
    if (!online)
    {
        return "Not online";
    }
     return "Online";
}

// Receive an image of the chatter

catchKey(key queryid, string data)
{
        if (queryid == theDataNameKey)
        {
            theDataNameString = data;
        }
        else if (queryid == theDataBornKey)
        {
            theDataBornString = data;
        }        
        else if (queryid == theDataPayInfoKey)
        {
            theDataPayInfoString = data;
        }
        else if (queryid == theDataOnlineKey)
        {
            theDataOnlineString = data;
        }
}

// Ask to receive an image of the chatter in pieces

sendKeys(key who)
{
    theDataNameKey = llRequestAgentData(who, DATA_NAME);
    theDataBornKey = llRequestAgentData(who, DATA_BORN);
    theDataPayInfoKey = llRequestAgentData(who, DATA_PAYINFO);
    theDataOnlineKey = llRequestAgentData(who, DATA_ONLINE);
}

// For each reset ...

default
{

    // Listen to all ordinary chat
     
    state_entry()
    {
        startup();
        llListen(0, "", NULL_KEY, "");
    }
    
    // Ask to receive an image of the chatter in pieces
    
    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
    {
        if (llGetAgentSize(id) != ZERO_VECTOR)
        {
            scrubKeys();
            sendKeys(id);
        }
    }
    
    // Receive every piece of an image of the chatter
    
    dataserver(key queryid, string data)
    {        
        catchKey(queryid, data);   
        receivedKeyings += 1;
        if (receivedKeyings == sendableKeyings)
        {
            receiveKeys();
        }        
    }

}

Instructions

Add the script to an object and start chatting with a friend. See the object remember who chatted last.

See Also

Functions

llDumpList2String - insert new lines (or whatever you wish) between strings

llRequestAgentData - ask to receive an image of an agent, such as a chatter, in pieces

llSetText - float text over a prim