Forums Bug Reports $address of a new nickname

I tried searching the forums with the util, didn't find any relevant results, so I'm posting it.

It may be called a bug, may not.

When someone joins IRC and he hasn't msg'ed or stuff that is viewable to my (or someone's) IRC client (i.e. my mIRC has not yet received any raw msg with from address), and you try to get his $address(), it doesn't work. I guess what Khaled does is make a hash table with addresses, and when you do $address(), it looks there; addresses are added there at incoming events. So if he has just joined IRC (not a channel) and you do $address(), it's in vain. Yeah there are some work arounds, but i'd like to see a "legit" solution to this by the next versions or something :tongue:

It's certainly not a bug, it's the way IRC works. The only way for mIRC to have a complete list of all addresses (without having to receive a msg from all of them) is to issue a /who upon joining a channel. This is what most scripts do anyway, but imo mIRC should never have it built-in as it is too bandwidth-demanding.

From the mIRC help

A user's address is added to the list either when they join the channel, send a message to a channel, or make a mode change.

/help Internal Address List

Have you tried using $mask($fulladdress,5) as an alternative for now?

Okay thanks all

Well no reason, since plain $address is good enough for remote scripts for me; and $mask($fulladdress,mask_type) doesn't work with aliases does it

Right, $fulladdress - as well as $wildsite, $site and $address without parameters - is only available in remote events.

Nope, it dont like to NO biggie, just thought I'd throw out a potential solutiuon