I did some tests of my own, and indeed, loadbuffing or filtering to a listbox in a dialog takes ages, whereas to a window is instantly.
The only way is to either use a dll like nhtml or mdx to dock a window in a dialog, or to use whilefix.dll so that your mIRC doesn't freeze. Either way it involves using a dll, and I don't think there's much you can do.
He could use a fopen, and a .TIMER 0 0 to load the dialog one line per timer event that self deletes (and calls maybe another alias if more needs doing) when it reaches eof.
On another subject i thought i might ask about...
In my personal experence WhileFix is good when you cant do much else, but I notice a hard to describe laggyness or stuttering laggyness after a very large loop has ended, If i had to amagine what it was, it would be like saying all the calls to whilefix dll, were all being ended, so there is a kinda slowwing as this is being done, or some internal table is being cleared out or a refrence to each call, I felt this due to if the loop was real large this odd slowing (NOT a normal mirc freeze) appears to get longer in accordance to the loop length. Things like changing window etx well be slow to respond, even tho u know nothing else is happening, This whole thing only lasts for maybe 10 seconds, and thats on an old 600mhz pc. Anyone else noticed this, or is it my amagination?
