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Is it possible to have the value of an identifier used as the default entry, but still allowing it to be changed.

With this

Code:

menu nicklist {
.WhoIs : .whois $$?="Nick"
}

it will ask me for a nick
With

Code:

menu nicklist {
.WhoIs : .whois $1
}

It will whois the nick that is already highlighted
With

Code:

menu nicklist {
.WhoIs : .whois $$?1="Nick"
}

It will whois the highlighted nick, if there is one, otherwise it'll ask me for a nick

What I want to do (if possible) is something like the last one, but where the actual nick is displayed already in the edit box, so that I can either press OK, Cancel, or edit the nick

If that doesn't make sense, I partially blame it on the fact that my body still seems to be running on Daylight savings time, so it thinks it's about 2:30 am now.

Code:

  WhoIs : .whois $$input(Enter nick,e,Whois,$1)

$input might be what you want

.whois 2:whois $input(/Whois $1 or Input Desired nick,e,Whois Request,$1)

Thanks to both of you...that's exactly what I was looking for

Be sure to use the $$ or it will send an empty whois request.

Yeah, I know. I was only using Whois as an example, since I have an (blow my own trumpet here) excellent Whois dialog script that I wrote.

If anyone's interested in seeing/using it, it's available here