Forums mIRC Help Right Clicking on Nick List

I'm an old time mIRC user, and have built some fairly complex popup files containing many citations relevant to the topic of the IRC channel I manage. For over a year I have avoided going to mIRC 6.x since, when I first tried, it messed up my scripts. I have finally done so, and worked through all the issues, but ONE. I do hope some of you tremendously bright folks can help me figure this one out.

Problem: my control menus are all connected to the nick list: prior to upgrading all I had to do was highlight a nick, right click, and up came my controls for kicking, banning, displaying some kind of banner, CTCP, etc. and etc. When you want to move fast and kick a lamer, you need that menu to appear quickly. Well, with every version 6.x I've seen, when you right-click anywhere at all in the nick list, an input box opens marked 'PrivateMsg'. When I cancel or close it, my menu appears. How on earth do I get rid of that utterly annoying input box? I have searched and searched and read help files and checked settings and examined my files....I have given up. Can anyone help me here? Thanks!

James>>>

You seem to have a scripting problem there!

Like you, I use the nicklist menu for an awful lot of stuff, but I've upgraded release by release for the last several years - and so far, no problem at all, and certainly no input box.

Don't suppose it could be linked to the Options/Mouse options?

PM

I have never had that issue with any mIRC version. If I understand you correctly, when you right click the nicklist a menu pops up saying 'PrivateMsg' and then when you click out of that you get the menu you want?

If that's right, although it's very strange, I suggest you search for the word "PrivateMsg" in your nick list popups script editor. I know you said you're an old time user, so you probably know this, but for the safety's sake and to make sure I don't have to post again for no reason:

ALT+P > View > Nick List then click on 'Find Text'.

If it turns anything up, then that might eb causing the issues - delete whatever it is.

To check out what PastMaster suggested, ALT+O > Mouse and then look next to 'Nick List' - by default it says '/query $$1' - don't quite see how this would affect you since you're not double-clicking as far as I see, but fingers crossed!

Hope you get it sorted

Regards,

Thanks, that was it: I finally gave up, inserted the "clean" popups.ini from a fresh installation, and then copied in what I had built over time. Finally found a single line that was pulling that up, though, to be honest, I haven't the *foggiest* why. :-) Thanks again.

James>>>