Forums Scripts & Popups $cnick() problem

I added "$me" to the ALT+B -> Colors list with color 7.
However if I do $cnick($me).color or $cnick($!me).color, the color that gets returned is 2 (2 seems to be the default on unknown nicks, as $cnick(asdflksfkjdf).color also returns 2 :P).

I want to do this because I want to be able to color nicknames in query windows (like plain mIRC also does) in my own ON TEXT event.
It already works fine in channels through $nick($chan,$nick).color. I haven't found out how to do it in queries yet though.

A loop through $nick(0) is out of question because it is too slow...

Using mIRC 6.14, btw.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

$cnick($me).color seems to work fine for me. Are you sure it's not just some other nick-colouring rule taking precedence? Make sure $me is the top rule on your cnick list.

True.... I just found out the problem was that the "Any mode" checkbox was ticked. It seems only to work in channels if that option is enabled.
Thanks for your help.