Forums mIRC Help Unchecking "Hide Ping?Pong!" event doesn't work.

mIRC 7.52

I recently encountered a situation in which it would have been beneficial to display the server Ping?Pong! events. I unchecked the option to hide it in IRC/Options and restarted mIRC. Unfortunately, the event still doesn't display at all. I'm looking for it in the status window.

I verified that the event was actually occurring by opening a debug window - /debug @debug. The event does show up there.

The server I'm connecting to is halcyon.il.us.dal.net

Is this option broken or do I need to do something else to show the event properly?

Thanks!

Thomas

can you test that one of your scripts is not intercepting that event to hide it?

/remote off

will disable all scripts from intercepting all events. Does this enable the pingpong message?
Be sure to enable after doing this test: /remote on

Thanks for responding.

Doing /remote off was one of the first things that came to mind. Toggling it off didn't make any difference.

I did some additional checking, and found that if I connect to Undernet, the Ping?Pong! event is displayed. Unfortunately, I generally only use DALnet, and for some reason the event doesn't show up when connected to their servers.

Debug output on DALnet:

-> choopa.nj.us.dal.net PING :TIMEOUTCHECK
<- :choopa.nj.us.dal.net PONG choopa.nj.us.dal.net :TIMEOUTCHECK

Thomas

Works fine for me on the servers I'm connected to.

You can simulate a Ping? Pong! event using /parseline.

mIRC's :TIMEOUTCHECK is unrelated to the server pinging you. mIRC sends out a :TIMEOUTCHECK from 'Connect > Options > Check connection timeout' to make sure your connection didn't go stale from lack of inbound traffic. A server sends a PING request to you from lack of outbound traffic.

Your last post shows in fact the event is not happening. Dalnet is sending a different message.

I tried several different networks, and of the 4, only SwiftIRC shows the ping/pong message when that option is unchecked, because that's the only one that's actually a PING.

Issue Solved!!

In mIRC Connect Options, I unchecked "Check Connection Time Out". mIRC no longer usurps DALnet's server ping.

Debug output on DALnet is now:

<- PING :choopa.nj.us.dal.net
-> choopa.nj.us.dal.net PONG :choopa.nj.us.dal.net

Thanks for your help!

Thomas