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can any1 can give me a better explanation for the -t switch in /window that set the tab positions? i just can't understand how it works and what if i specify only two positions and i add to the window more then two tabs?

Try this command:The -tN1,N2,N3,N4,....Ni says that if tab-delimited text will be spaced in columns according to this: the distance between the 2nd column and the left window border will be N1 characters; the distance between the 3rd column and the left border will be N2 etc. As you can see from the colours of the example above, The Line %i Column 2 column starts at 30 characters to the right.

I don't know what happens if you add more columns than the number of N's specified in -t but why don't you try it? In case you're wondering though, you cannot change the N values (used in -t) AFTER you have opened the window by calling /window again.

//window -l -t1,1 @a
and then
//aline @a a $+ $chr(9) $+ b $+ $chr(9) $+ c
it doesn't add 1 space it make it without spaces
??

Because, as I said, every number in -t specifies the distance (in characters) from the beginning of the line, not the distance between the columns themselves. So, with -t1,1 you're telling mirc to put "b" and "c" 1 char to the right. mirc puts "b" right after "a", but instead of overwriting "b" with "c" (since this was given a distance of 1 too) it puts it one char to the right. Obviously the shortest distance between two columns is 1.

uhhh i understand
thanks

does the -t switch works for the window too? or just listbox ?

yes, -t works in plain text @windows, as well as list @windows and side listboxes.

uh k

well, it's not working:
/window -t2 @c
and then
//echo @c abc $+ $chr(9) $+ cde
it's not worked like i wanted
it should be abc cde
and it does abc [many spaces] cde

in addition to the tabstops that you specify, mIRC continues to assume additional tabulated columns be 5 spaces apart, past the last tabstop you specify.

Since you specified a tabstop of 2, and 'abc' is 3 characters, you already exceeded your first (and only) specified tabstop. The next tabstop lands on 7 (2 + 5), and the next wil be 13.


Try specifing tabstops further apart, or data that actually fits in the column widths you specified.

- Raccoon

huh?
i don't understand nothing