Forums mIRC Help Editbox calculator

For a while now in one of the channels I autojoin I can type something like "25 + 4" into the editbox and when I press enter it will display "29" as channel talk, ie evaluating editbox input, I can't for the life of my find out where this option is set, as it only works in this one particular channel and no others...

Any clues?

its not an option, it well be a script

go to ALT-R, remotes tab, then edit/search and search for the channel name, you well likely find it in something "like" this

ON *:INPUT:#channelname:{

change the #channelname to be just #

and it should function on any channel (weather if functions correctly or not sorry i cant tell.

PS: u may also have to locate mentionings of #channelname in the script and change them to # also.

Ahh thanks, I had written a script to filter out any swearwords I typed a while back, which also had the effect of evaluating things...

It's pretty neat so I've changed it to an input evaluator, this is it for anyone who is interested;

on *:INPUT:#: { if (/* !iswm $1) { var %replace = $1- | msg $active %replace | halt } }

Now if someone asks me a simple sum I can just type it in and i'll look smart with the answer!

Thanks again

This would be a slight bit better, it covers
/ and the mirc definable / replacment,
also if ctrl keys down (normally means dont process anything)
or if your pasting lines, )which normally mean you dont want to process anything)

on *:INPUT:#: { if (!$istok(/ $readini($mircini, text, commandchar), $left($1, 1), 32)) && (!$ctrlenter) && (!$inpaste) { var %replace = $1- | msg $active %replace | halt } }

Nice trick, but I'd say this is actually a mIRC bug...

Its not a bug its just how mirc handles numerics, well maybe its a bug lol

on *:INPUT:#: { if (/* !iswm $1) { var %replace = $1- | msg $active %replace | halt } }

if i type 24 + 5
then
var %replace = $1-
becomes
var %replace = 24 + 5
aka
var %replace = 29
This is what mirc is speced/designed to do , it well take it as a numeric calculation over a literal text

if i type 24 + 5 + b
the result is
24 + 5 + b

Let me put it this way. How do I assign the literal text "1 + 1" (for example, contained in $1-) to a variable? The complexity of the answer is more or less proportional to the likeliness that this is unintended behaviour (i.e. a bug).

Keep in mind that the mIRC helpfile only defines these operations on variables to work "when using the equal sign", whereas /set actually works the same way. I wouldn't mind if mIRC supported this feature pre-evaluation, but applying it post-evaluation seems rather weird to me...

//set -ln %var 1 + 1

As with everything this evaluating of simple math expressions has it's advantages and disadvantages. I'm ok with the way it works, but it'd be nicer if you could have a flag with /var that gives you the option to choose whether or not to evaluate math expressions perhaps.

Oh okay.. that's easy enough I kinda expected the -n switch to cause the rest of the line not to be evaluated at all, but I should've tested that I guess.

Still, I personally would've preferred /var to use -n implicitly, but since this thread shows that it can actually be put to use.. oh well..