Forums Feature Suggestions /echo -z Echoing within CID windows

I'm not one that enjoys having to script events to specifically echo to CID windows (such as notices, privmsgs, etc).

That said, I'd like to suggest the ability for mIRC to intelligently echo to the CID windows of an incoming message, using a new switch.

Ie, /echo -z $$1-

Ok... but what's a CID window? A @window that was created with the /window -z switch?

- Raccoon

CID == Connection ID (duh :P)

Basically, this switch would allow mIRC to direct events to the originating server (or CID), and to any window (chat, status, etc) that also has that CID.


For instance, you've got a custom notice event that echoes to the active window, and someone sends you a notice from a different server, as it is, it would echo into the active window, but you actually want it to echo to the server the notice originated from (at the very least, the last active window for that server connection, or to any further specified).


However, this does seem to be somewhat tricky to implement, as the notice raws don't actually tell what server the notice is coming from.

Ah hah, I get you.

You want an /echo -a that echos to the active window, staying inside the triggering event's CID. Agreed, this would be handy and should be possible.

A related flag I'd like to see, is one that echos to any/all prevelant windows associated to the event. For instance, in On Notice/Nick/Quit etc, the switch would cause text to be echo'd to each of the channels that user is in, just as the event's default display would. I know this can be acheived by looping $comchan(), but a flag would be so much easier.

- Raccoon

That sounds like a funky idea too, however, it would definately be one of those "enable/disable" features.

It would be a flag, so it would inherently be disabled by lack of use... until you wanted it.

D'oh. My bad :P