Forums Developers period vs. backslash with functions

Hello,

I'm new to mIRC scripting, so I was wondering: what's the use of period (.) in front of a function name versus backslash (/). I ask this because I always use backslash, but sometimes people give me code with periods, and it's not explained in the help files. For example, I was given the following:


Well, when I use this code, nothing appears in my status window. If however I replace the period with a backslash, I see in the status window:


Does this mean the first one isn't working? Or maybe it's designed not to appear in the status window?

It's probably a very stupid question. Thanks.

putting a . infront of something, eg .msg $chan blah makes it not show to you. It will still msg the server, but you will be unable to see it.

Useful if you PM people lots of info from a script, because you can do .msg $nick and it won't show up in the status window.

[Edit] Just to clarify, both of those work fine, only you can't see the 1st one, but the person that typed the trigger could.

As Danthemandoo said, the . prefix simply means that anything that mIRC would normally display locally (to you) from that command will not be shown. It isn't a case of being . vs. / however, you can use /.command if you want and it will work just fine. The / is only necessary when you type commands from the editbox in a window, inside scripts it's completely optional.

OK. Thank you both. It was quite clear.