'There is not a "Join on Connect" and "Connect on Join" in the favorites dialog.' No, but I'm saying there should be, which is why I pointed out our miscommunication.
That may be what you meant, but you did say "in addition to", which means that you are saying there are two. It caused the misunderstanding, which was then cleared up after you added more detail. In addition, your reply today stated that you were listing what it HAS and not what it needed. You're flipping back and forth on what you're saying. In one, you say that you were talking about what features mIRC has and not what you want, and here you're saying that you meant what you wanted instead of what it has.
- Favorites > Edit dialog has Connect on Join checkbox, in addition to Join on Connect. It is selected by default.
That is your original comment. Looking at it again, it still (by itself) does not provide any information about what you're saying or asking. Just looking at that without any other later posts, you say that it has both options by saying "in addition to". You also say it's enabled by default. You don't say why you mentioned it. You don't say you think it should be disabled or that you think it should have another checkbox or anything that might make it clear what you want. In any case, this is cleared up now.
'a shortcut isn't going to suddenly point to some other location.' Concretely, if a shortcut points to D:\readme.txt , where D: is a removable disk or drive, then the particular target of the shortcut depends on the identity of that; it can point to many things. You also didn't address the mapped drive and internet connection "ambiguities".
It is usually a bad idea to set up a shortcut to a drive letter that can change or be used by something else. In addition, IF you did set up a shortcut to d:\whatever.txt, it would attempt to open that location when you clicked on the shortcut regardless if the original drive is present. If the file doesn't exist, it will ask you if you want to browse for it. If it exists, it will open it even if it's the wrong file. I'm not sure what you're getting at because your example here supports what I said... that if you click on it, the standard behavior is to access it immediately, or at least attempt to.
If you read my edit, you'll see that I did address mapped drives. Shortcuts to mapped drives will still open the file regardless if the drive is mapped as long as you have access to the location (and if necessary, enter the password). For web browsing, only dialup networking has an option to prevent a connection when clicking on a bookmark and there is a specific reason for that option. It's because dialup often has fees attached to using the phone (such as long distance charges) and therefore, the option prevents you from being charged unless you're sure you want to connect. That's not quite the same situation.
Even my FTP program, if I click my favorite, will connect to the appropriate network. This really is standard behavior.
