Forums Feature Suggestions $nick expansion

How about expanding $nick so $nick(#,0,i) would return the number of people idle in the channel? Hell, at that point you could (in THEORY) do $nick(#,0,i).N where N was an idle time that could be used to see how many idlers were OVER that time. This (the first half of this post) should be easy enough to figure out and implement (he said from a NON programmer POV)

Actually, the idle option cannot exist without defining idle time -- who is to decide when a user is idle and when he is not? Some people consider 5 minutes to be idle, others consider an hour to be idle.

well, if mirc can list them as idle after a set period of time, then the $nick expansion COULD utilize that aspect of mirc to deside it

Maybe I have a scriptsolution:

You can use the addressbook/color to change the color of all idle people (you can define the idletimer yourself) to to a certain one. Then you write an alias, which counts the lines in that channels listbox, that have that color.

I hope that helped.
CySlider

I was just figuring there could be a way to get it done internally and would be (perhaps - Ive seen arguments for this kind of thing before and dont pretend to dictate what others will and wont do) better to have it in the $nick identifyer itself, but yes, this IS an alternative

Or you could simply loop through all the nicks in the listbox and check their idle time using $nick().idle. No need for nick colouring then.