Forums mIRC Help Miscellaneous questions from a newbie

Is there a way to disable the "file has been changed, reload from disk" popup? I'm not too fond of editing scripts in the native editor, but every time I edit and save the script in a text editor, that pops up. Is there an option or some other way to default it to "yes, and stop asking"?

Is there a command to execute a series of commands from a file? Something akin to perform, but executable via command or script? So far I've managed to do it via while loops, but a more elegant solution wouldn't hurt.

ALT + R , Options , Monitor file changes

But will that automatically use whatever changes I've made when I try to run the script?

No. You need to reload scripts manually if you're not using the script editor.

Coincidentally, you can actually write a script to handle this, though:



Or you can have that loop through $script(N) to reload them all. It will trigger whenever you switch back to mIRC, so you can comment it out when you're not writing code. Note that /reload doesn't trigger ON START/LOAD events, you would have to /load to get that.

Alrighty, I'll give it a crack. I'm assuming filename.mrc is a placeholder for whatever file I want to reload?

Yes, it is.

Another question along a similar vein - is it possible to have mIRC "monitor" a file for changes so that when an outside program changes or creates that file, the script reacts?

Or - and this is probably a longshot - is it possible to send commands from an outside program to mIRC without needing to feed them via an intermediary file? I figure the more steps I can bypass, the less possible breaking points I have.

Hmm, then I might be missing something. I entered



in the Remote tag and



under Aliases. But when I change one of those echos in Notepad, nothing changes when I /test.

He gave you a script to reload Remote scripts, not aliases. To reload aliases, use -a instead of -rs. To see what switches to use for each type of file, use /help /load .

Okay, that works. Any ideas on the other stuff? If you're wondering why, I'm hoping to set up an outside script that handles a bunch of stuff I can't see myself pulling off with mIRC script, like emailing logs on request, fetching URLs, a makeshift billboard and so on, so the plan is to watch the activity logs mIRC writes, chew that data if any triggers come up, then spit up a list of commands for mIRC to process.

To answer the 2nd part, see:

/help SendMessage
and
/help DDE

Hmm, AutoIt might not suppord DDE... would COM work?

Edit: A quick foray into /help says yes. It seems a little out of my depth for now, though - can you point me to some examples of SendMessage?

It depends on the language you're using, but mirc sendmessage on google has a lot of results. Also: http://www.mirc.org/mishbox/tutorials/dllhelp.htm#s9

Yeah, but google searching is almost all duds in the context of "sending a message", rather than the command itself.

AutoIt seems to have built-in SendMessage functionality, but after a day of trying, I've had no luck. The frustrating part is that the parameters in mIRC and AU3's help file look similar and I suspect it's just a matter of different terminology for the same things - but damn if I can quite get a hold of it. Would it help if I pasted AutoIt's own help page on SendMessage here, see if anyone can tell me what's what?