Forums Scripts & Popups Newbie request for help

Hello,

I'm pretty sure some of you can do this in your sleep with both hands tied behind your back

In order to connect to a service that gets me on IRC I have to issue a command in mIRC to connect to a server, then a command to pick a virtual host, and then a command to connect to an IRC server.

I've managed to create a popup menu where I right-click and choose each step in sequence, but I would like to make the second step, where I choose the virtual host, an automated random pick from a list of available hosts in a text file.

The second step now in the Popups looks like this:

.choose vhost: /command1 command2 vhost1


I'd like to have something like this:

.choose vhost: /command1 command2 [pick a random vhost from vhosts.txt]

Any easy way of doing this?

Thank you very much for any help or pointers.

I think I'm getting somewhere:

.choose vhost: /command1 command2 $read(hostsfile.txt)

which is supposed to read a random line form the hostsfile.txt (each host ip is on a separate line of course)

I tried an //echo $read(...) and it's returning a random line in the main chat window but it's not working with the popup menu and I'm not sure if the syntax above is the correct one for mIRC. Do I need a variable maybe, like ... vhost=$read(hostfile.txt) ?

As fair as I know

should work

Thanks for the reply. It's not working but there's probably something wrong with the server I'm connecting to.