It seems to me that using your time wisely is a choice you must make yourself, not implement fairly useless (imo) features into the programs you seem to spend 'too' much time using.
Time management responsibilities are entirely in your hands, if you do have the will to close mirc when you have been online for too long, or to manage your time better then this is maybe something you should work on for yourself, as im sure mirc is not the only place such skills would come in handy to do.
I really am failing to see a practical purpose for turning off autoscroll, can you not just press the up arrow once (or hit ctrl+pageup) to stop it moving? Further more as an indication of further conversation you will notice that when you are not at the bottom of the buffer the position of the tab in the scroll bar moves up.
There is also a 'line' feature in mirc used to mark the last place where you looked into that window, which can be jumped back too. If you find this of any use.
If you wish to script such a time management system yourself, it seems almost like defeating the purpose. Why? because if you can not come to such a decision on when enough is enough, then such notifications (if not already painfully obvious from the timestamps) are just going to become an annoyance, or you will end up clicking out of the popup instinctively and ignoring it anyway...
On a final note, reducing the addictive nature of something is never in the best interests of a product, you want people to use your product more not less. Again, just hit ctrl+pageup and the text will cease to scroll.
Last edited by Om3n; 29/01/06 07:37 AM.
