Forums Scripts & Popups highlight on 2 words in a sentence

okay iv'e tryed to search around here but didn't find much so here goes.

i'm using nnscript just so you know.

i'm looking for a script that highlights on 2 specific words, in nnscript a highligh when mirc is minimized will popup a little balloon with what was said etc, and a notice if mirc is active but in another channel.
i tryed to use the highlight option, but if i use one word ex test, it'll work fine but if i use 2 words ex test,tester it'll highlight on both words even if they arent in the same sentence.

i olso tryed,
on *:text:*:*:if (test isin $1-) && (tester isin $1-) { /window -g2 $iif($chan,$chan,$nick) }

but none of them are able to detect the words if there are [ | ] around them, ex bot says [test|tester] then nothing happends

dunno if this is a bit too much to ask for, so far iv'e been told that it's nearly impossible to get something like that working. something about not being native supported and other stuff i didn't understand.

Not so sure but would using wildcards in the matchtext work?
on *:text:*Matchtext1*Matchtext2*:*: { do whatever }

thers nothing wrong with that, you might wanna do this tho
on *:text:*:*:if (test isin $strip($1-)) && (tester isin $strip($1-)) { /window -g2 $iif($chan,$chan,$nick) }

I sure these are not the words but just in case TEST and TESTER dont need (test isin $strip($1-)) as test is in tester so well be found in the tester isin.

Actually i would use this
on *:text:*:*:if (*test*tester* iswm $strip($1-)) || (*tester*test* iswm $strip($1-)) { /window -g2 $iif($chan,$chan,$nick) }

Use just one of the iswm if the words should only appear in one order



Dont know why that would be.


Sounds like the person who told you that didnt have native support themselfs. Unless there refering dierectly to nnscript which i have never seen.

That would work, only problem with doing text matching is if colors bolds etc are involved, the text match must have them in, I guess you could do a regex match of course.

To use mIRCs highlight system (and presumably in turn nnscripts)

If its a phrase you're wanting such as you posted ("[test|tester]") then just add

• [test|tester]

as an entry to the highlight dialog.

Or if you want those two words in any postion of the msg add

• %highlight

as the highlight entry, with "Match on:" set to 'Nickname' and use this modified version of Daves line

thanks alot, all of you. both dave's and iori's script seems to work fine, and there is bold and colurs involved, so that rules out the matchtext..

oh btw dave, i don't think he was refering to nnscript, i'll try translate all he said
...
the problem is to call the highlight function through scripting
it's not native supporte as i can see
and the highlight function dosn't support regular expressions
that makes it hard.

i think hes reffering to mirc it self since nnscript is just a addon installed ontop of mirc.

You need the ^ event prefix in on TEXT for this to work with mirc's built-in highlight.

LOL, Thanks DaveC, that explains some issues i had in the past with using matchtext that really had me scratching my head. I just assumed mIRC would see the text striped.

Thats how i learnt it, I was stripping everything from messages, and wrote some matchtexts that all worked, then later (6 months or more) I turned all the strips off, and didnt notice for a day the traps werent working, then wasted an hour looking through my code, when it just want matching up anymore.

What does this actually do to mirc? set -u1 %highlight $nick I dont use the internal highlight system, is a nick in that variable automaticly highlighted? And if so be it becuase of the nick or text match on nick name?

oop yeah, I forgot to add it when I modded that lline
Thanks for pointing it out

... add

• %highlight

as the highlight entry, with "Match on:" set to 'Nickname' and use this modified version of Daves line


What it does is set the var to the nick (but you knew that), The var is a highlight entry set to match on nicknames, so when the mirc parses the line it sees a match and highlight is triggered.

i'm not sure i get, where did you say you insert the nick that it should trigger on ?, because that would actually be nice...

You can have nicks as entries in highlight.

That script just dynamically assigns whover posted the "Test tester"string to the "%highlight" entry

hey hey thats a clever system, just add %highlight as a highlight item, and you have a dynamicly assignable one. I like it. Although IM having troubles when i set it to the nick of the text sender, seems to only work if i set it to his striped text? Which comes to the same thing in the end.

Did you assign "Match on:" ->> Nickname ("Nickname only" or "Nickname and message")?