Forums Scripts & Popups Simple question about whois

I have the "show in active > whois" option enable in mirc option and if I make a /whois on an editbox window, it works as it should.
But when using something like //query $me | whois $me, the whois is done on the window where I've typed the commands, not the window that was active when the /whois was executed, even a timer does not help.
Any ideas about this ?

This is a limitation in how commands like /whois and /say work. A temporary workaround would be editbox -n $me whois $me but it would destroy your editbox contents if the window was previously open (and had stuff in it)

A limitation ? I'm not sure how this could be limited, mirc should be aware about the real active window, look like an annoying limitation.

mIRC is aware of the active window, it just isn't using it (by design).

The problem with /whois is two-fold:

1. "show in active" isn't really show in "active". It's really more of "show in the window the command was processed from", but this is naturally too long to put into a dialog. So from the start, we're not actually expecting /whois to be echoing to $active.

2. /whois has the same behaviour as /echo (without arguments), /say and /me. As I alluded to above, these commands aren't actually shorthand for "msg $active" or "describe $active", but rather they use the window id of where they were processed from. This is how "/timer 1 5 /say hi" will message the channel you typed it in regardless of whether you switch windows within that 5 seconds. This is the "limitation", or design flaw if you'd like, that keeps /whois from echo'ing to the active window and instead makes it use the window from which it was processed.