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Allegory Malaprop
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Join date: 8 Jul 2005
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10-01-2007 23:12
I've got an attachment I want to distribute, that I would like to have give out items to whoever touches it. I'd love to have the items given out be transfer/no copy (for a number of reasons including I think it would be more fun if you have to actually give the item away to pass it around). I'm not sure how you'd set up the permissions for this though, since if the items in the object's inventory have to have both copy and transfer permissions to be able to be given out infinitely (as long as I understand the theory correctly). Or is there some other way to have an object give out selected contents?
(For clarification, it's a Halloween treat bucket you carry around, and I would like the candy it gives out to be transfer/no copy so people have to keep touching it to get more candy.)
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Lyn Mimistrobell
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Join date: 11 Jan 2007
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10-02-2007 07:50
An item in the content folder of an object can be "transfer/no-copy" while the object itself has different permissions.
In your case, make the bucket copy/no-transfer and the candy inside the bucket transfer/no-copy.
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Allegory Malaprop
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10-02-2007 12:26
Ah, I was under the impression that would distribute the contents themselves, not copies of them.
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Ordinal Malaprop
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Join date: 9 Sep 2005
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10-02-2007 12:35
It will, if the bucket is being operated by another person; a piece of candy will disappear from the item's inventory if it is handed out, because the owner does not have copy permission on the candy. (If _you_ are holding the bucket it will be fine as you have copy permission, it is just the next owner who doesn't.)
Hmm. I suppose one way would be to have a networked vendor for the candy, though that is perhaps a little overkill. Or to stuff the bucket full of individual no-transfer candy pieces, and have the owner have to go back to a central "candy dump" (owned by you) to refill it.
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Allegory Malaprop
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10-02-2007 13:45
Hm. That is somewhat troublesome, and sadly what I had assumed was the case. It's a silly little freebie thing, so I don't really want to delve into the deep dark mysteries of networking for it...probably. Unless I get obsessive. I suppose cramming it full of candy, and having the candy visible in the attachment disappear at the end to tell you you're empty might well be the way to go, even if that most likely will require a bit of reworking. I may even be able to convince myself it's a feature, not an inconvenience.
(p.s. Ms. Malaprop, thank you immensely for being one of my teachers by example in learning how to code, as I'd found the documentation to be largely unhelpful to get a decent grounding from which to start.)
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