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2. No statusbar. Bersirc has a status bar and only repeats information that is already on the screen which is a pointless exercise to me.


Like I said in my original post, there would be an option to disable the status bar from appearing. As codemastr said, you wouldn't even know it was there.

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Back to mIRC though, unless the starter of the thread could explain what the status bar can display that is not already displayed somewhere then I wouldn't be all that fussed over whether it is included or not.


I already explained what it would display. Read my second post.

<example>

If the active window is the Status Window, the status bar might display something like:

Status Window - Not Connected

or

Status Window - Buffalo.NY.US.ZUH.Net 6667 - +i


* Custom Status Bar

on *:START:{
statusbar -s Welcome to mIRC!
}

Note: The -s switch means Status Window

</example>

Again, those are just three examples. You could have it display anything you wish with commands and identifiers.