Getting textures from a child

Say I have an object built from 5 links prims. Is there a way to store copy/transfer textures in one of the child prims and have a script in the parent prim to extract and view them? The object itself would have only a copy permission.

When I say view, I mean use them as textures on the parent and one or more of the children.

(hope that makes sense) - I'm building a tabloid newspaper type thing.

Yes, that's definitely doable. That's more or less how a lot of vending machines work, for example.

For the specific how-to's, you'll get much better answers in the Scripting Tips forum than you will here in Building Tips. Good luck.

Yep you are correct - I subitted it in that forum - thanks