Forums Active Threads Past Year

The latest beta can be downloaded here and includes the following changes:

Hi! I can confirm that this annoying bug is present in this version. But I'm SURE that the Father of mIRC will fix this and other issues encountered with this update as soon as possible.

Thank you, Khaled, for always working to improve mIRC.

Being able to drag and move channels around has been suggested a lot before.

Being able to see emoji is a font issue and mIRC does fallback to different fonts when a character isn't available in a font so you should be able to see emoji, you can try to set your font to 'segoe ui'.

As far as using emoji you can use this script which lists all the 'face' emoji in a custom windows, double clicking copy to clipboard.

alias emoji {
if ($window(@emoji)) { window -a @emoji | return }
else {
window -odl @emoji -1 -1 100 500 verdana -28
var %a 1,%l 128512 128515 128516 128513 128518 128517 129315 128514 128578 128579 129760 128521 128522 128519 129392 128525 129321 128536 128535 9786 128538 128537 129394 128523 128539 128540 129322 128541 129297 129303 129325 129762 129763 129323 129300 129761 129296 129320 128528 128529 128566 129765 128566 128527 128530 128580 128556 128558 129317 129768 128578 128578 128524 128532 128554 129316 128564 129769 128567 129298 129301 129314 129326 129319 129397 129398 129396 128565 128565 129327 129312 129395 129400 128526 129299 129488 128533 129764 128543 128577 9785 128558 128559 128562 128563 129770 129402 129401 128550 128551 128552 128560 128549 128546 128557 128561 128534 128547 128542 128531 128553 128555 129393 128548 128545 128544 129324 128520 128127 128128 9760 128169 129313 128121 128122 128123 128125 128126 129302
while ($gettok(%l,%a,32)) {
aline -l @emoji $chru($v1)
inc %a
}
}
}
alias chrU {
var %chr = $iif(U+* iswm $1, $base($mid($1, 3), 16, 10), $1)
if (%chr isnum 65536-1114111) return $chr($calc(55232 + %chr / 1024)) $+ $chr($calc(56320 + %chr % 1024))
return $chr(%chr)
}
menu @emoji {
dclick : clipboard $sline(@emoji,1)
}

Finally i made sum investigations.

When mirc is using a soundcard, i tested it with "rme multiface" and now "creative pebble x speaker with internal usb soundcard", in both cases a running mirc eats 2 watt more power.

Now i had the idea to block mirc to access windows audio with sandboxie.
So i added "ClosedIpcPath=\RPC Control\AudioSrv" to the sandboxie.ini.
Then i start mirc inside sandboxie and voila ... 2 watt less energy consumption (25 Watt, instead of 27).
Maybe it isnt a very exact measurement because i use the power consumption measurement of an apc ups.
But it clearly shows that an always "touched" windows audio can generate unnecessary power consumption.

No matter, i can live with the sandboxie workaround

thx.

The issue is that when passing $6 = 1, it assumes it will work for everyone. Everyone is the hash key, and $1, $2, $3, $4 is the hash value. If I pass the same message to different channels, one will overwrite the other because the key is the same. The problem seems to be there.
I avoid $unsafe in the scon or timer when I know the value won't have problems.
The alias $sbtok builds an $aliasname(parameters) to be used in a timer or scon, for example:
noop $sbtok(44,echo,$null,-a,test) is the same as $echo(-a,test).

SBTOK = String Builder token

Your comment about the treebar had me go down the rabbit hole and I thought I would compare fonts for that and the switchbar to old backups and there's the answer. The font settings had changed.

Previously I had switchbar set to Microsoft Sans Serif 8 and the treebar Segoe UI 9. I dont ever recall changing the font on those so I wonder how old they are? They must have been default at one time?

See here for a recent discussion on this topic.

I appreciate your time and response. If mSL is baked into the gui then I wouldn’t even consider doing it, sounds like to much of a challenge.

Great! Thank you!

Hello Khaled,

I’ve noticed that IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) like irc.aşk.net are not resolved in the current mIRC versions (e.g., 7.81).

Can you please consider adding support for IDNs so users can connect to servers using Unicode domains directly?

This would greatly help users from many languages and regions.

Thank you for your great work on mIRC.

Dear mIRC User,

mIRC v7.82 has been released today.

This is a small update that adds features and addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes, including:

Added $tip() support for permanent tray tips.
Added support for specifying a username for SASL Logins.
Added SASL disconnect on error server option.
Fixed percent encoding/decoding memory bug that would have caused intermittent crashes.
Fixed touchpad speed/sensitivity when scrolling in different types of windows.
Fixed handling of swapped mouse buttons in different contexts.
Fixed $urlget() crash bug when credentials are passed in URL.
Fixed features that were using the wrong default GUI font under Windows 10/11.
Fixed various Aero theme bugs relating to Windows display scale and text size options.
Updated all code and libraries in preparation for future 64bit / ARM64 versions.
Updated libraries to LibZip v1.11.4, LunaSVG v3.5.0, and TagLib v2.1.1.
Updated from the OpenSSL v3.0.x branch to v3.5.4.
Updated SSL code to remove use of 30+ deprecated OpenSSL APIs.
Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

How to upgrade?
mIRC is distributed in an installer that installs mIRC on your computer for you. Simply download and run the installer from the download page on the mIRC website. Follow the instructions the installer gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out.

Where to download?
As always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page on the mIRC website.

Registering mIRC
As you know, mIRC can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great and much appreciated if you registered your copy. This licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. You can find out how to register here.

Full list of Fixes, Changes and Additions.
For a more detailed list of recent changes, please see the whatsnew.txt file. You will need to read through the help file to learn more about these changes and their impact. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work. May we invite you to use these forums for all questions you might have? The forums offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

Thanks for using mIRC, have fun on IRC!

Great idea! But there's one nuance. What if the user wants some other ghost text to be displayed as an input example?

I propose extending the syntax by adding an additional colon-separated parameter (highlighted in red) to fill with ghost text to be displayed when the dialog edit field is empty. Besides, it would be more correct to call the style "ghost" or in this case it is possible to do without it altogether:

     edit "text":"(ghost text)", 3, 8 92 290 22, autohs ghost


Also, it would be possible to add a new switch for the command "did":

     /did -x <name> <id> [ghost text]

Thanks wims, i used original as well but was hoping your shorter version could be made to work but from what i understand from you is it can't be made to work, if i understood well.


BTW these are the aliases for it :


Much appreciated,

Simo.

I fixed some errors in the dll, there now no warnings.

Thanks for your bug report. I was able to reproduce this issue on a touchpad here. Excessively fast/sensitive two finger scrolling on touchpads seems to be a common issue with applications. In this case, mIRC was not handling how a touchpad sends WM_MOUSEWHEEL delta values in small increments, that need to be accumulated, which is different to how a mouse sends the same message. I have made a change to the next beta that should hopefully resolve the issue.

Figured I would use the General Discussion forum to shamelessly look for anyone, even old timers, still residing within this playground How is everyone?

You can find the scripts editor in the Tools menu in the mIRC menubar.

Once you open the scripts editor, you will need to click on the Aliases tab, then click View in the menubar to see which files are loaded.

You will then need to do the same thing with the Popups, Remote, Users, and Variables tabs.

If you see a servers.ini files listed in the View menu, you will need to select it, then click the File menu in the menubar and click on Unload.

I've just noticed the detailed notes on the beta and it looks like ARM64 support might be a possibility!

https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/225704/mirc-beta

Thanks for providing these updates, it's nice to be able to see that actual roadblocks you're facing and things that you're considering.

Good idea, I support this request.

Oh that's a tough one.

Honestly, given mIRC there are probably more people that benefit from having Windows XP support than those that would benefit from having ARM support (after all, ARM64 devices can run x86 code, even if sub optimally).

I'd probably lean on a poll or system check from folks to get an idea of the number.

However, I definitely still recommend getting an x86-64 version of mIRC up and running if possible! As there are enough security benefits under the hood in Windows these days to make that worthwhile.

To be fair, though, maintaining Windows XP support now would be similar to maintaining Kenbak-1 support when mIRC first came out.

Just wanted to comment to Khaled that I massively appreciate all of the under the hood work being done on mIRC right now! I know it's not something that's typically a visible feature for most users, but it's important work to keep mIRC modernized (and hopefully, better performance and more security).

Thanks!

Hi. I'm using this addon that check ON JOIN and ON NICK if nick is included in bnicks.txt.
So if nick is included in the file, so the user receive a kick/ban:



All the + % @ & ~ users are protected, but because I have some troll users who use to wear a nick that recall ircop/ircap , I'd like to add an exception for them too, because in the channel , they don't have any status (so they looks normal users) , so they receive kick/ban too.
So I think addon should has to check mask.
I plan to make a exceptednick.txt and write allowed nicks/masks.

These are ircop/Ircap part of mak:

*!*@ServicesAdmin.*
*!*@NetAdmin.*
*!*@*.NETNAME.org
*!*@NL.IrcOp.NETNAME.org

Thanks for help

 
My own temporary solution to implement this idea:

You can also try using another variation of the script code with one common alias to check the nick, format and send the echo message:

It's probably due to mirc getting info from the ircd for all 27 channels wich may result in disconnect due to excess use of commands wich is common, what you could try is add some sort of delay for joining channels/using commands.