IM & LSL connection

[scoman81]

This is the absolute top of my personal wishlist for a text client: a way for me to write LSL script to handle incoming instant messages. This would allow creating a very smart bot using a standard text client. There are two aspects to this suggestion ... getting IMs into LSL, and sending IMs from LSL. The 2nd part is already covered in Radegast with the send_im command. Hopefully that will be sticking around. As for the first part ...

The only way (that I know of) for a script to hear an avatar, is via say. So my suggestion would be to expand the LSL interface to Radegast with a command such as "im_channel" which allows the LSL to tell the client what channel to use. The client would then repeat incoming IMs via say on the specified channel, including av name, av key, and IM text.