Couple of quickies

1. For the past few weeks (as long as I've been playing SL), if I drag an item out of my Objects folder, that gets rezzed. When I "Take" it, a copy goes on top of my object list (becomes the first one in my folder). I got used to this and it makes sense. Sidetrack: is there a way to see on your inventory list the date/time of objects without clicking on properties? Note, there are multiple revs of the same object with the same name, just different iterations.

anyway, what started happening last night: I drag an item from the top of folder A out to be rezzed or even from folder B. The item that gets highlighted in my inventory is an item in either a different folder or an item further down the object list. When I take it, it does not go to the top of my folder as a copy as expected. Is there some sort of size limit in folders that causes problems?

2. As #1, but with an attachment. I drag an item from folder B onto the ground. It auto attaches on rez. But, the item it is showing me wearing in my inventory list is in folder (same name).

3. Does anyone know a way to check a multiprim object someone gave me for scripts? I can easily tell if the root prim has a script but if it's a 20 prim object, and the prims are small, how can I be sure there are no hidden scripts?

1&2.) In your inventory menus, there is a way to sort by either name or recentness. Could this be messing with what you are used to? Unfortunately there is no way to get received date except in the properties window.

What you attach objects directly from your inventory, they are essentially still in your inventory while attached. Actually what happens is SL keeps track of which inventory item was rezzed and attached, and saves its state back to that inventory item when the attachment is detached, but in any case you will not get a new inventory item from simply attaching and detaching. However, if you rez IN WORLD, you are creating a NEW COPY, and when you attach an object to yourself from in-world (whether by script or pie menu), it is added to your inventory just like any object you pick up.

When you take or receive a completely new object, it goes into your Objects folder. But if you rez an object and then take it again, the new copy goes into the SAME folder in your inventory where it was right before you rezzed it (incidentally this is true for 'Take' but NOT 'Take Copy'). That might be true of object rezzed and then attached from in-world, but I'm not entirely sure (I honestly haven't paid attention to that scenario, and have forgotten if ever I did notice which way it went).

3.) What you CAN do is see if there are ANY scripts in the object. The object's hover tip tells you that. You might want to turn hover tips always on for all objects (I believe it is View -> Hover Tips -> Tips On All Objects and something like Always On; might be worth it just to turn on all the options in that submenu); I find this very useful myself.

However, if you know there are some scripts in an object and want to know if there are more, or if you want to see WHAT scripts and other inventory items there are in the object, you're going to have to examine every prim. This is easiest if the object has modify and copy, because you can rez a copy, start tearing it apart by moving, rezzing, and maybe even unlinking prims, etc. Otherwise, well, be very careful and methodical or choose to use/not use your friend's object based on trust.

Hope that helps.

Is this statement just true for the current batch of viewers, or would it be possible for someone to construct a viewer that was able to show your inventory in a manner similar to Explorer, with object name, properties, date and time etc?

Rock

That's true of the official viewer. I'm sure it is POSSIBLE for a viewer to do this. PROBABLY it has received date loaded for each item, since it sort based on that data, but it is possible that the sorting is done server-side and it takes individual requests to load some of that data from the server, so it MAY not be an efficient design. I haven't looked at the protocol for this (viewer source code) so I can't tell you for sure. Maybe someone else will come along who has.