Forums Bug Reports background -a

hello,

if i start this timer:



background triggers the channel that was active at starting the timer.



triggers the right one.

The -a switch for all commands uses the window active at the time the command is issued. In this case, /timer is associated with a specific window for the life of the timer. I could change it so that -a works the same way as $active, however I think -a has always worked this way.

umm... I still do not completely understand the -a switch. consider this code (clean install with mirc.ini in the mirc-dir, mirc 6.31, vista):



now I create two custom windows and... nothing happens. whenever I click into the windows, the echo would show me the correct active window where I klicked into, but the background wuld not change.
with "background $active image.gif" it works.

I'm able to reproduce this result.



Doesn't appear to function correctly on @windows.

it does not affect custom windows only. same behavior in status, channel, and query windows.
I'd suggest to make the -a switch consistent with $active because currenty it's not obvious what "-a" refers to, at least within a script. I cannot imagine a case where it would make sense to distinguish between "-a-activity" and "$active-activity".
Maybe there is such a case. Then it should be explained in the help file :-)

it works with 6.3