Forums Developers Limited mIRC COM support

If you have worked a bit with COM, you now know that dispatch doesn't work, even though there have been instructions on how to use this as early as mIRC 5.91.

I want to make a script that auto-updates itself. I refuse to use sockets - this is not a good way how to do things. I would like to use the IE engine (XMLHTTP object to be exact) to do the downloading. One advantage would be the IE proxy settings would be working.

So after managing to do this, I got to a nasty problem. mIRC has extremely low limitations for saving binary variables. I said I could use the FSO... but no way can that be done until the dispatch problem is solved.

I'm wondering ... by which version will Khaled decide to fix this bug? Do you users not realise the potential in COM? I don't see many users complaining, maybe that's why Khaled doesn't bother...

I know what the potential is, but I also know that the example you gave doesn't take advantage of it at all and that COM is difficult for people using languages other than vb to work with.

That's not an issue, since someone could easily make some aliases that allow you to use COM similarly to how you'd use it in VB/VBScript.

First it needs to be working at least, then we can start to think about improving the code.

Hi!

You're not alone

Here are some threads:
https://forums.mirc.com/showflat.php?Cat=...o=&vc=1
https://forums.mirc.com/showflat.php?Cat=...o=&vc=1
https://forums.mirc.com/showflat.php?Cat=...o=&vc=1
https://forums.mirc.com/showflat.php?Cat=...o=&vc=1
etc...

Lot of people have their COM scripts ready-to-run and COM's dispatch * has been fixed for the next version.
Until that, you can always run your COM script using another language (Perl, PHP, TCL, VB, etc..) and retrieve results from a text file using mIRC.

The DISPATCH bug has been fixed and it will be working from the next version of mIRC.

yay