Forums mIRC Help Prevent mirc resetting my timestamp options...

IRC>Messages in Options there is a box, 'Timestamp events:' to prefix messages with a timestamp.

Here is what I have in it: (c)14[h:nn](c)

(Colour control code, then 14, then [h:nn], then the colour control code again).

This is so I can colour my timestamp information a shade of grey.

However, when I restart mIRC, my setting is reverted back to the plain [h:nn] notation, I dont want that!

Can anyone shed some light on how to overcome this, short of setting my prefs file to readonly?

Thanks

hhmm, forum doesn't like control codes

on *:start:{ timestamp -f timestamphere }

Yeah just use (c) or something

INI files can't store CTRL codes, and since mIRC saves it's settings to an ini file that information will be lost on next startup.

using the on start event Danthemandoo gave will enable mIRC to set it's timestamp on startup, which will be loaded to memory and used for the entire session. after closing mIRC the codes are removed but at next start the script will change the timestamp back to the coloured one.

You can also put an identifier in the timestamp box, eg: