To me it's important. Sometimes there are situations in which you need a setting to be adjusted for something to work. When you have the knowledge to do it, there is no problem, but when other less experienced people or with no knowledge about it has to do it...
That's even more important when a setting needs to be enabled, disabled or its value changed during runtime. If the user has to open the options window, search for the desired option, adjust it, close the window and return chating... I think it's really embarrasing.
With a so highly customizable program as mIRC, with maybe several scripts reacting to the same events, I think changing global options in a transparent way is something that can help to control. I've found this problem when trying to program a protection for the users, but know I'm not the first person who had this problem: I found a thread in a forum (think in mircscripts) dated in 2003 in which someone posted the same question. There is an approach to this using COM, but it's "dirty" and interface-dependant, so I tried to avoid this one. As I didn't know if there are another approaches, I decided asking here.
Of course, this is just a little reflexion and a situation in which I've found myself in an dead end. If there are no commands to adjust the other settings I suppose it's because people don't need it or because it's something that would be useful in just a few situations and don't deserve the effort to develop it.
Last edited by Tucki; 28/06/11 02:18 PM.
