Forums Scripts & Popups not sure why it seems to need msg tiwce

I am just playing around with mirc scripts and ran into something and not sure what I did wrong to cause this.

just doing a simple $len on $1- > 10 to send a message



with this is get a error in the status window saying #channelName Unknown command

but if i change the msg line to



it work fine.

Just not sure what it wrong to need the double msg commands to output the text.

That script is fine. Assuming you copied and pasted it exactly as it is in your scripts editor, do you perhaps have a custom alias for /msg?

As lire said, this is typical. You must have a custom /msg alias, that custom alias is failing somehow, trying to execute the first parameter passed as the command, which is why giving msg as the first parameter works.
You can find the location of the file containing the alias using //echo -a $isalias(msg).fname in mIRC

I copied the echo command and it outputs



I had rewrote the code a few times still end up with the same issue.

I installed mirc again on another drive and did the portable option and wrote the same code on there and it seems to be working fine. I am not sure what is with the other install, but it wouldn't be a big issue to move over if it keeps working since the only thing I have changed was the font size.

Still very interesting, but hopefully it was just something with the one install.

Weird, if you didn't delete the other installation of mIRC, can you try to replace your on text event with:
Where the ! in front forces mIRC to call the built-in /msg command. If that works, you do have a custom /msg alias somehow, it's possible you have a local custom /msg alias, which I think $isalias wouldn't have found, but that's unlikely.