[Bf-committers] Trusted blend files and scripted drivers bug and annoyance

[Jace Priester]

I expressed a lot of disagreement with the "Trusted" feature when there was
talk about implementing it, and I'm here to voice a complaint again now
that it has become a problem.

I have created an animation using a scripted expression driver and that
driver's value evaluates to zero. I did not notice the "Continue Untrusted"
button appear at the top right. I've spent hours trying to figure out why
scripted drivers don't work, only to save and reload and then be prompted
to "Reload Trusted". This has been a gigantic waste of my time and is
precisely the reason I did not want this "trusted" junk in the first place.

I am aware of the command line options to disable it, but I never expected
to have to do that. I understand the "Reload Trusted" prompt when opening a
file. However, when I create a brand new driver and enter the expression
myself it should work immediately. In any case, it damn sure should not
show a value of zero without a notice right next to it that it skipped
evaluation entirely. As-is, this is very misleading and indicates that the
expression did in fact resolve to a value of zero.
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Jace Priester
Threespace Imaging
jacepriester at threespaceimaging.com
559-284-0904
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