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Resources: hippoVEND: Vendor and Server API

If you’re a scripter wanting to add functionality to your vendors, you might find the following details on the limited API built into our vendors useful. Note that not all of these API functions are available on catalogue vendors.

Vendor Navigation

Linked Message Integer Linked Message String Linked Message Key
Left arrow Clicked 401
Right arrow Clicked 402
Side panel clicked -8009000 (string) panel number Key of the person clicking


Vendor Offline/Online

Linked Message Integer Linked Message String Linked Message Key
Vendor goes offline 6005001 "off^name of the vendor"
Vendor goes online 6005001 "on"


Data Fetched From Product Database
(e.g. when the main panel is loading up a product to show)

A linked message will be sent with integer value of 502 and the string value a list of items separated by ^. If you turn this to a list (e.g. list temp = llParseStringKeepNulls(message, ["^"], []);) you'll find the following data items held in the various values of the array

0 Product number (with 1 being the first in the collection loaded in the vendor etc.)
1 Product name
2 Product description
3 Inventory item your server would deliver if this is purchased
4 Server information
5 Server information
6 Server information
7 Name of the product information notecard on the server if there is one available
8 Server information
9 Server information
10 Server information
11 Key of the texture to be used to display this product
12 Price
13 Currency (L for Linden, U for US dollars)
14 Miscellaneous internal flags and data
15 Miscellaneous internal flags and data
16 Miscellaneous internal flags and data


Product Sale

Linked Message Integer Linked Message String Linked Message Key
-147900 A series of data items separated by ^ ...

Key of the payer + ^
Name of the payer + ^
Key of the friend if being bought as a gift + ^
Price paid in L$ + ^
Name of the product



Server Deliveries

There is one useful API function built into the server. When it makes a delivery, it will send a linked message like this one:

Linked Message Integer Linked Message String Linked Message Key
-147900 Name of the object delivered Key of the recipient


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