Forums mIRC Help Problem with Away messages

Ok possbly a very stupid question and very easy to anser (I hope) but after using the "Search" function of the forum and not finding an answer I'm stumped.

Ok so basically whenever I type an away message, for example:

"/away Off to sleep"

it doesn't display that message in the room, all it does is in the main IRC window with all the server information login acknowledgments etc is says:

"You have been marked as being away"

So any idea why it isn't displaying the message in the chat room?

Cheers

Usually when a user does the /uwho command on you, they will see your away status. If you want to be able to have it display the reason for away in the channel, you should look into setting a timer ( /help /timer ) and make a timer to announce your away ever hour or what not. As for why it don't by default in the channel beats me.

When you set yourself as away, thats all you are doing. The advertisements you see all the time are custom scripts, that users have made/downloaded. Here is a simpel one to give you some idea..



menu channel,nicklist,status {
Away ( $+ $iif($away, Away, Back) $+ )
.$iif($away, Return, Go Away): /away.toggle
}

alias away.toggle {
if ($away) {
/nick $remove($me, |Away)
/amsg I have returned - Away Reason: $awaymsg - Time Away: $duration($awaytime)
.timeraway off
.away
}
else {
/nick $+($me,|Away)
/away $$?="Enter Away Reason:"
/amsg I have stepped away - Reason: $awaymsg - Time Leaving: $asctime(hh:nn:ss tt)
.timeraway 0 1800 /away.advertise
}
}

alias away.advertise {
/amsg I am away - Reason: $awaymsg - Time Away: $duration($awaytime)
}

on 1:INPUT:*: {
; auto-return on text
if ($away) { /away.toggle }
}

and by simple, i mean simple >:D

.... OR you can just type /ame is away after typing /away off to sleep:)))

"any idea why it isn't displaying the message in the chat room?"
it isnt supposed to. From the help file ( /help /away) : "Whenever someone sends you a MSG or does a WHOIS on you, they automatically see whatever message you set."

Personally i'd rather have ppl change their nick to nick-away or some such than send hours of "i'm away" to a channel. Sides, if i need to see if someone is really there or away, is easy enuf to do a /whois

Cheers for the replies folks I'll just use the /me function after setting myself away, and I agree ParaCrat away messages that continually pop up are a pain in the ass, just like ones popping up evey 2 secs from a user to tell everyone they are playing some games online.

Thanks

Please not that /me will display the action only in the active channel, /ame will display the action in all channels you are on.