Hello @maroon and thank you very much for your extensive explaination of your code.
As I see you are a real mIRC veteran
Can you tell me what you are doing for a living and what was your greatest project on mIRC scripting?
To understand your code, I have a few questions I hope I may ask:
1. Why do you use
instead of
? In mIRC help it says, $parms is an untokenized $1-. What would change that in output?
2. What exaxtly does this do?
For me it sets the variable %str to "%str_" (_=space) when
Why do we need to specify the variable %str already on this line? Because later in
var -p %str $+(%str,$chr(3),$v1,%char)
the variable %str gets changed anyways. Am I assuming right, that
refers to the "$chr(32)" in
?
3. What is the "32" in
$gettok(%colors,$rand(1,9),32
for? I assume ascii code for "space", but I don't fully understand $gettok. In mIRC help it says "Returns the Nth token in text". I don't understand "Nth". You also used it here:
$gettok($v1 %recentcolors,1-3,32)
Why do you
first set the while loop for checking about recent used colors in
while ($gettok(%colors,$rand(1,9),32) isin %recentcolors) noop
and
after that, you set the variable %recentcolors to the values which were used last using
var %recentcolors $gettok($v1 %recentcolors,1-3,32)
? Until here %recentcolos is empty or $null anyways, or not?
5. What is the "$v1" in
var %recentcolors $gettok($v1 %recentcolors,1-3,32)
and
var -p %str $+(%str,$chr(3),$v1,%char)
refering to?
6. Whats the advantage of using an "!" on
?
Thank you in advance. With much respect,
Housecat
