llBreakLinks permission

HI -

I'd like to enable any user to touch an object and break all links in that object. So far, I have been stymied by the need to ask the owner's permission to break all links. Is there a way for me (the creator) to allow anyone who touches the object to break all the links in it?

As always, thanks much!

I think what you probably need is --- rather than put the permission request in the touch_start - put the permission request in the state_entry and also when you detect CHANGED_OWNER, then just break links on touch.

hmm ... the owner actually doesn't change ...

Uh no, you need to read

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlBreakLink

Excerpt:

Function: llBreakLink( integer linknum );

Delinks the prim with the given link number in a linked object set
• integer linknum – Link number (0: unlinked, 1: root prim, >1: child prims) or a LINK_* flag

Requires the PERMISSION_CHANGE_LINKS permission, granted by the owner, to run.

Added: And this

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlBreakAllLinks

Excerpt:

Function: llBreakAllLinks( );

Delinks all prims in the link set.

Requires the PERMISSION_CHANGE_LINKS permission, granted by the owner, to run.

Right. OK. Thanks. I'll try to figure out a different way.

Until you give it away.

Can't be done without changing owner as the above post clearly points out. Why do you require the link-set to change. Maybe with a bit more info a clearer solution could be worked out.

This has personally bugged me on occasion and I have tried to design many work arounds for this. The down side has been that I have needed a new solution for nearly every new situation. I have not found an "off the peg" solution that fits all.

Can't be done without changing owner as the above post clearly points out. Why do you require the link-set to change? Maybe with a bit more info a clearer solution could be worked out.

This has personally bugged me on occasion and I have tried to design many work arounds for this. The down side has been that I have needed a new solution for nearly every new situation. I have not found an "off the peg" solution that fits all.

What I like to know is:

Is it possible in any way, to transfer the given change link permission to another script?

for example, use a hud to give a command to several linked sets inworld to unlink a certain object from the set, while only giving the permission once and not for each separate module.

Well, you can request the permission before taking the object into inventory, then take it and rez as many copies as you want. The script in each will have its state from the moment you took it into inventory, including the permissions you granted it.

This won't work for keeping permissions between owner changes, though, because part of the script state remembers which avatar granted the permission (i.e. llGetPermissionsKey()), and if it wasn't the current owner, bad luck; won't work. You must re-request permissions.

yeah, and that wont work when they need to be rezzed from a box first either. So I gues there is no way to really do this. Too bad, I'll just have to figure out a way to script around that.

Problem is that I'm making a module building system, and need something to pin out the rotation center of the linked set that makes up the module, wanted to use a box for that which could be delinked and removed afterwards with freezing the module parts. Maybe a better question is:

Is there any way to make something rotate around something other then the center of the root prim?