Forums Feature Suggestions more roomlist control

the room list window is spiffy and everything.. but i'd like to have more control over how room lists are displayed. maybe an option to halt the opening of the window so you can fill a dialog list with the results (i know you can 'hide' the window but thats not the same). more than that, i would like to be able to add popup options to the roomlist popup. is anything like that possible now?

Signed (especially the popup menu idea)

one of the major problems with /list is on large networks it makes mIRC lock up until its done, sadly this is due to how mIRC is coded. There is also no command in the RFC (I dont think) to tell the server to halt sending data to furfill a previous /list request (I may be wrong but im almost positive theres not). This puts the client at a disadvantage the only way to stop the filling of that window with channels is to ignore lots of data flooding mIRC from the server which lags the client anyway...

So based on my expierence with mIRC theres no way this can happen since mIRC when flooded with data from the server jsut about can only do one thing at a time anyway i dont think there will be an option to ignore the incoming data (which would effectivly halt it in the list box) however im all for the popups in that i like that idea and maybe like a /list @window to list to woujdl be neat

No it isn't, if it were, it would freeze up all mIRCs. It does not freeze up mine and I can't remember it ever doing so. It usually lags you on big networks if you have a slow internet connection, which also hasn't got anything to do with how mIRC is coded.



If you mean stop listing once you've typed /list, there is /quote list stop and/or /quote list halt. You can also right click on the list and click on 'Stop Listing'. This doesn't usually happen instantaneously.

Regards,

This don't work everywhere. As an example I have never been able to halt listing in EFnet.

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If you mean stop listing once you've typed /list, there is...

Not all networks support that.

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Brax beat me to it

I did not mean to imply that it works for all networks. (Though I have found it works on most)

You're lucky to get any /list on EFnet, I almost always get "server load too heavy"!

Regards,

ya thats my bad by freeze i ment lag since mIRC is single threaded and the socket loop for a server gets high priority (as it should) as i said there is little that can be done on big networks even code wise, the only stuff i can think of would slow the filling of the list down overall but would keep it from lagging... though i think its best the way it is.l

Also I ment stop immediatly since even once you send list stop or halt or what not the server still sends a bunch before stopping, though like i said i do not think there is a command in the irc protocol that is standard to stop /list though as you said some networks implement a way