Ownership of given items

I have a object that I made listen to the owner and depending on the commands I give
it, it will produce different particles.

Now It works fine but I gave a copy of the item to a friend, (No copy, No modify)
but it will not listen to them.

I was told about a reset option in the script but all attempts have met with
syntax errors.

any help would be appreciated.

You want to add an on_rez event like so:

on_rez(integer start_param)
{
	llResetScript();
}

I was given a bit of code only a little bit different then that but they both give me a syntax error.

I can't quite figure out why yet. Could there be something that the on_rez needs?

Is it possible you're attempting to put the on_rez event inside another event or function or outside a state? It should look similar to this:

default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		llListen(0,"",llGetOwner(),"");
	}
	
	listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
	{
		if (message == "hello")
		{
			llSay(0,"Hello.");
		}
	}
	
	on_rez(integer start_param)
	{
		llResetScript();
	}
}

Note that it doesn't matter the order in which your events (state_entry, listen, on_rez) go, but that they all must be within a single set of braces (curly brackets) inside the state (default). Does that make sense?

Yes!!! ok, it does make sence.

One of those little pesky brackets got past me. Pollock+3-4 hours sleep+lots of code=
poorcode!

ya'll are the best! Thanks

alternately you can set up an initialization function in your state_entry event. call init(), which would include something like this:

key init()
{
    return llGetOwner();
}

state_entry()
{
    key owner = init();
    llListen(0, "", owner, "");
}

it might be useful to do this for various reasons, if you wanted data or settings to persist through owner changes. Unless i'm sadly mistaken, this will work. but i might be sadly mistaken. Please correct my wrongness.