Forums Scripts & Popups filtering out "quits"

This one's a bit tricky, but I do need to do this, and I cannot find any help specific to it from searching.

I need to filter out (halt) somebody's very long quit msg. I could just turn that feature off in Mirc, but I will need to see the joins all the time. My question is, does anyone know how to do this? I only need to do it from one specific person, and I could try a script to catch it at the snotice level. Not all quits, just one particular one, based on what's in it. With quit, "on text/action" won't work, because it's already happened and it's too late to halt it. That's where the problem is.

Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

/help on quit
/help /haltdef

Those should give you the information you'll need to prevent the quit message from showing up.

on ^*:QUIT:{
var %quit $1-

there you get a variable called "quit", then you can use $len(%quit), and if %quit is longer then lets say 5 haltdef = dosent show, else show.

untested so dosent know if it work but try it and edit it, shouldent be that hard to get it to work as u want..

You can change the 50 to whatever you deem appropriate, or change it to if ($nick = certain person) instead

change the echo to whatever you wish, that echo is mIRC's default... with the quit message changed...

-Rappy (routed)

Alright guys. Thanks for your responses. I was looking at completely halting a particular quit message (that is repetitve, hence the need for filtering), not necessarily by anyone's length. This worked for me:


Simple enough. It was the "^" that I forgot about, even though I use that for hundreds of other text scripts...never thought that could apply to a quit message. Halt works as well as haltdef. Thanks again.