Forums Scripts & Popups /aline and ctr-i

I've been working on a script which completely replaces mIRC's default channel windows with my own, and I've run into a little snag with /aline. It seems that ctr-i is actually interpreted as an indent, instead of a little blank box. It puts the text after the ctr-i 9 characters from the start of the line, overwriting whatever else SHOULD have been there.

Has anyone else run into this problem? And if so, is there a way around it?

Meh. For lack of a more elegant solution, I've just changed all my $1-'s to $remove($1-,ctr+i)

Well the reason for the indents is that the character produced by Ctrl+I ($chr(9)) is the tab character. It doesn't render as a tab in channel windows, presumably because it doesn't really facilitate chatting but it would be very annoying if someone flooded the screen with messages full of tabs. Of course none of that is relevant in custom windows so tabs are rendered normally to allow for text alignment.