Forums mIRC Help * $input: cannot use in an event

What isn't working with it? Does it pop up the $input?

As for your update script, you should do this instead...



* You can, of course, rename the alias and adjust the input text.

I tryied but return the same error * $input cannot use in an event

Yeah using an alias would be much better.

I personally have a dialog for my updates. I have a list with checkboxes for each file. When the update is finished it removes the updated files from the list so you can check more updates or close the dialog.

See the edit. I missed a character. That should work now. I can't test right now.

Yeah, a real dialog is a very good option. $input is useful for really minor things, but using a real dialog gives you far greater control and customization. And dialogs can be used anywhere. $input halts everything that follows it, which is why it cannot be used in an event. Dialogs don't halt anything, so they can be used in events without a problem.

Any way i will change it with a dialog option, the code still not working! the input does not opening to select yes or no!

Sat wrote an article that highlights the difference between these types of events:

http://www.xise.nl/mirc/wiki/doku.php?id=critical_events

there are cases where it is much more convenient to circumvent mIRC's detection of $input in a 'critical' event (and it is actually possible to do so in mIRC script) but this isn't one of those cases :P using a split second timer to call an alias containing the appropriate segment of code is easy here.

If you really want to use $input just use a timer for the alias.

on *:sockclose:mysock: {
timer -m 1 500 CheckUpdate
}

Yeah, I forgot the timer. Oops.

Any way i have change my code removing the update confirmation

Thanks all for the help!