Forums Scripts & Popups Run scripts from a different file

echo_hello | echo -a hello
echo_bye | echo -a bye

Or use the /play command and the -c switch. With /play, you don't need that external alias and the other switches allow you to set further parameters, if required.

Create for instance a file "example.txt" and add a set of commands to it:

Now within mIRC, if you use the following command: mIRC will execute all commands in that file.

Of course you can put the play command inside a custom alias like:The -c switch tells mIRC to treat all the line in the file as commmands.
The -p switch tells mIRC to give priority to this play request (just in case there are other playbacks running at the moment).
Note that /play requires some target window, therefore I put the -s switch (in mIRC, there will always be a status window).
"500" specifies the per-line playback delay in milliseconds, i.e. the time offset between the different command lines of your file. Note that as the first line in example.txt has two commands on it, there will be no delay in-between the two. You can put "0" for delay to have mIRC execute all the commands without any line delay.

The play command syntax is documented in detail at "playing files" in your mIRC helpfile. For example, you could use an ini-file and have mIRC play a given topic (as the command register, with one or more command line associated to it).

Not if you use the .ini file structure. You could place every command (or set of commands) under a distinct [topic] header of a single .ini file.
What goal are you trying to attain by out-sourcing your commands, if I may ask?

You wouldn't be able to use event syntax like that. At least, not without considerable work, or unless you want to load the file and use it that way as just another script file.

As far as what you are attempting, you should absolutely never do this. Consider what happens if someone decides it would be "fun" to put in a command to delete things from your computer or grab your password file from your browser or other history and cookie information from you browser and download it? It would be VERY easy for someone to do basically anything they wanted to your computer. And with that kind of control, they could make it so you don't even notice... write the command to do what they want, then change it back to something innocuous until they are ready to do something bad again.

Never, never, never let someone create their own command on your computer and execute it. This is a really dangerous idea for a script. Unless you and only you have access to write commands, or you can absolutely trust those who have access (I wouldn't trust anyone besides very close family and perhaps very close real life friends). It would never be a good idea to give that kind of control to anyone you meet online no matter how good you think you know them.

Do you just want the script to be able to send messages or does it have to be able to execute other commands?

If the former, there's a much easier (and better) way of achieving what you want.

You can yes, but it's a bad bad idea, i could format your whole computer (or worse) if you give that type of access so it's not a good idea.

You know that the things people can do aren't limited to just that computer, right? If you're on a home network, they can gain access to other computers on the network. They can also easily get you banned from the IRC network and can send out viruses to people from your computer. They can also very easily set your computer up (outside of mIRC) to do things it shouldn't, such as passing on viruses or doing DDOS attacks on places. You are attempting to make it possible for someone to do anything they want from your computer as if they were sitting at the computer itself. This goes beyond whether you have a backup on that computer. It is just a really bad idea.