Forums Scripts & Popups catching everything sent/received in raw format

Hi, I'm thinking about trying to make a very basic IRC client in Visual Basic. I know about the debug window, but is there any way to see exactly what I'm sending? I'm not sure about the color codes for one thing. Is that literally just sending "Ctrl +K(number) text"? Thanks.

Not sure if this is what you were after, but the ascii values for the mirc control codes are... ctrl+k - 3 , ctrl+b - 2 , ctrl+u - 31 , ctrl+r - 22 , ctrl+o - 15

Without looking into it which i am unable to do atm, i can't say for sure if mirc just sends the plain control codes (little boxes are they appear i guess), but ctcp's send and recieve this way so it would be a fair assumption.

Thanks. That might be helpful. I'll have to try that. I did try this line, and it echoed in the right color

The debug window shows what you are sending and receiving. Control codes are sent as "little boxes". Each little box is actually a different non-printable character (ASCII characters 0 to 31). The IRC protocol uses certain non-printable characters that act as "color" "bold" etc. You can find the actual ASCII value of the control codes (or any other character) by using this code:

//echo -a $asc($$?)

When the dialog opens, press ctrl+k/ctrl+b/etc and press enter. The ascii value of the character will be echo'd to the active window.

-genius_at_work

Try this for multiple characters.

//bset -t &binvar 1 $$?="Some string" | echo -a $bvar(&binvar,1-)

-Andy