08-18-2006 04:14
I would like to have a permissions testing mode. This mode would be a property of the object, set with a checkbox for instance. The effects would extend to all the prims and contents in the object. When it is enabled, the object would work as if the object was used by somebody else.

There should be two modes: owner, for testing how would the object work after it is transferred and non-owner, for testing how would it work for everybody else.

This is how I'd like it to work when this mode is enabled:
  1. In owner testing mode, when you interact with the object, llDetectedKey(0) == llGetOwner(), but llGetOwner() != llGetCreator().
  2. In non-owner testing mode, llDetectedKey(0) != llGetOwner().
  3. llDetectedKey, llGetOwner and similar functions return a key that's not your usual one.
  4. The key returned should point to an existent account, created explicitly for the purpose, so that dataserver functions can be tested correctly.
  5. Permissions apply to you as if you weren't the creator, with the exception of the testing mode flag.
  6. To prevent confusion, the permission testing flag is automatically cleared on transfer.



I believe this would greatly reduce confusion over how permissions work, and reduce the need to ask friends or use an alt to do proper testing.