When is a macro trusted?

Inspired by this discussion I tested several combinations of macro location, player/gm, auto-execute and if the macro is player-editable.

Not all combinations seem to be as expected.

I used this macro

Code:

I am [r: if(isTrusted(), "", "not")] trusted.

It was owned by the player client.

Here is my result chart

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I am at work at the moment so I can't test it, but I believe the player editable flag is ignored on campaign macros isn't it?
If so then the results are what I would expect.
The rules are

Anything the GM types into the input box is trusted.
Anything a non GM types into the input box is not trusted.
Any auto execute macro that is non player editable is trusted.
Any auto execute macro that is player editable is not trusted.
Any non auto execute macro gets copied into the input box to be edited, so results in one of the first two rules
In another 2 months I will be answering this question again

Craig wrote:

In another 2 months I will be answering this question again

Then perhaps we can get CiF to put his spreadsheet image and the text of your post into the wiki for future generations...

I think I can do that

just have to find some spare time.

Maybe the wiki even supports tables better than phpBB, so I might even not use an image to display tabular data

Great -- thanks!

In the meantime I'm going to move this thread to the WIP-UserFAQ subforum as it does seem to come up periodically. And when CiF has it on the wiki, I'll come back and add a link, trim out the unneeded posts, and lock the thread.

I added to the existing Trusted Macro page. Give me feedback if you think something could be done better.

The values in your chart show up as ✓

It appears as a checkmark here. Page is UTF-8 encoded in my browser (macos, chrome)

Anyone else having problems? I surely can change it to some more basic character...

Apparently I don't have Dingbats font on my computer.

aliasmask wrote:

Apparently I don't have Dingbats font on my computer.

That's surprising. You're running Windows, right? And if that's not Dingbats I don't know what is...!?

Okay, I'll wait a couple days to see if we get any other responses, then I'll lock the thread and delete these extraneous posts.

Last edited by aliasmask on Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Okay, I'm confused. I only see the "box" character for the check mark in the browser (both chrome and ie8), but maptool does show the check when I use the unicode there.

Apparently I need to update some of my basic fonts. Windows Vista and newer versions which include IPA symbols with Arial, Courier New, Lucida, Tahoma and Times New Roman. I'll see if I can upgrade those fonts.

What character encoding shows your browser? IIRC a browser can be set to ignore the webpage specified character encoding...

Clueless if thats not it

There is a bunch of MS products that have the font, but I recently did a reinstall and currently didn't have it. After I downloaded arialuni.ttf, I could then see the check marks. But it doesn't come standard with XP.

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