Forums Scripts & Popups Starting a DCC Send session from a dialog

I try to start a DCC Send session from a dialog but for some reason it doesn't work (insufficient parameters). The code that should start the session is:

IF ($did == 11) { dcc send $did($dname,10) }

When I add //echo -s dcc send $did($dname,10) for debugging, I get exactly the right command format on my status screen. When I copy and paste this back in the screen, the DCC Send window is opened, so $did($dname,10) actually contained an existing nickname. So, why do I get an errormessage?

I beleieve you may have a custom dcc alias (local only using -l ) as /dcc send anything here should work ie: /dcc send @##(!*&!*(@#!@#
A custom alias on the other hand might want nick and filename etc, if it has the -l local access only flag then it wont be triggered from the command line.
Have you tried using !dcc send $did($dname,10)

IF that still doesnt work its debugging time <groan>
try...
(1) use ctrl-c to copy the line see if theres any hidden characters then like control codes
(2) To check for extra spaces use //echo -s $replace(dcc send $did($dname,10),$chr(32),_)
(3) try this I wont say it well work but it might fix the problem dcc send [ $did($dname,10) ] or dcc send [ [ $did($dname,10) ] ]

but since /dcc send should work regardless i think its the custom alias.

Good suggestions, but none of them works. I call DCC from an on dialog sclick event. The dialog is defined as -mdo. DCC Chat however works very well, only Send is causing problems. Maybe a bug in mIRC?

Might be I worked around it. Its seems to be to do with it being in a dialog or a dialog event code, cant tell which it is of course.

use

IF ($did == 11) { .timer 1 0 dcc send $did($dname,10) }

or better yet

IF ($did == 11) { .timer 1 0 dialog -n $dname $(|,) dcc send $did($dname,10) $(|,) dialog -o $dname }

I like the second one, just be aware the dialog event code completes before this trips, so if the dialog happened to have closed, well oops to that!