llTextBox

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TextBox

llTextBox

Summary

Function: llTextBox( key avatar, string message, integer chat_channel );

1.0	Forced Delay
10.0	Energy

Shows a dialog box on avatar's screen with the text message. It contains a text box for input, any text that is entered is said by avatar on chat_channel when the "Submit" button is clicked.

• key	avatar	–	avatar UUID
• string	message	–	message to be displayed in the text box
• integer	chat_channel	–	output chat channel, any integer value

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.
• Not supported in official Linden Labs viewers prior to version 2.4, and some TPVs may not support it. Unsupported viewers will display a dialog box with a single option of "!!llTextBox!!".
• There is no way by script to kill a text 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).
• If the listening prim is out of the 20 meter range of the sending prim when the "Submit" 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 7 (Viewer 3) or 8 (Viewer 1) 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. One easy way to create an empty message is to use a line feed, as in <lsl>llTextBox(avatar_key," \n",dialog_channel);</lsl>

Examples

<lsl>integer listener;

default {

   touch_start(integer total_number)
   {
       llListenRemove(listener);//A previous user may not have responded. Make sure we don't leak!
       integer channel = ~(integer)llFrand(1000.0);
       listener = llListen(channel,"","","");
       llTextBox(llDetectedKey(0),"Write something here...",channel);
   }
   
   listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
   {
       llSay(0,"You wrote: " + message);
       llListenRemove(listener);
   }

}</lsl>

Notes

Instead of mouse clicking: "Submit", you can use keyboard keys: press Tab ⇆ and then Enter ↵

See Also

Events

•

listen

Functions

•	llDialog
•	llListen
•	llSay
•	llWhisper
•	llShout
•	llRegionSay

Deep Notes

History

Introduced in SVN:568 r88085 Trunk Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Source

viewer - indra/llcommon/lllslconstants.h <cpp>// llTextBox() magic token string - yes this is a hack. sue me. const std::string TEXTBOX_MAGIC_TOKEN = "!!llTextBox!!";</cpp>

Footnotes

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

Signature
function void llTextBox( key avatar, string message, integer chat_channel );

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