Forums Bug Reports @window bug

With an @Window that has a listbox, the PgUp and PgDown keys dont work for the main window. Instead they affect the side list box.

I don't know if this is a feature or an annoyance, and there doesnt seem to be any simple way around it. Perhaps Khaled meant for PgUp and PgDown keys to affect the a listbox window?

Either way, I think it should be fixed... It is quite annoying having to scroll through my log veiwer with the mouse.

Reproduced on Windows XP Home SP2, mIRC 6.16.

A workaround is to open the window with the -e switch (edit box). When the edit box has focus pgup and pgdn will affect the main window.

yucky

I didn't want to start a new thread about it, so I'm just posting my question in here - yes, the topic is @Windows

I've seen custom windows with "colums" in them, like the one below:


I went through the help file, but the @window part of it sounds pretty confusing to me, and I found nothing about it.

How do I do that?

PS: The screenshow was takne from a banlist with Peace n Protection script loaded.

Zyzzyx

Its done, with hard spaces basically, $chr(160).

//var %c1 = This is an, %c2 = example of ident | //echo $+(%c1,$str($chr(160),$calc(50 - $len(%i))),%c2)

Creates an IDENT of, 50 between the 2 parts of the line, to create the COLUMN effect, you would need to look at the widest (longest), parts and calculate with them accordingly.

To further enhance the confusion.

//echo [color:red]ABCDE $+ $str($chr(160),50) $+ B
//echo ABC $+ $str($chr(160),$calc(50 + ($len(ABCDE) - $len(ABC)))) $+ B
//echo ABCDEF $+ $str($chr(160),$calc(50 + ($len(ABCDE) - $len(ABCDEF)))) $+ B
[/color]

Will result in all 3 lines being aligned correctly, however notice the starting 'words' are of different length, the FIRST one is our starting length, the 2nd one is a shorter one showing you how to calculate that and the last is a larger length.

Eamonn.

I see your point, I thought there was a switch of some kind that would do it. Maybe this can turn into a feature suggestion?

Thanks for the explanation!

Zyzzyx.

More likely it's a @window opened with the -t switch.

• The -t switch used to set the tab positions in a listbox.
  
  t[N,...,N] = specifies the tab positions in a listbox, if text contains tabs it will be
  spaced out according to these tab settings

You then use a tab ($chr(9)) to seperate the columns.
e.g.

That works too I had a suspicion about the -t switch, but didn't know what those 'tabs' were and how to put them.

Thanks

Edit: btw, what is the unit of 10,20,30,40? Pixels?

While, -t is a better alternative (and personal preference), P&P actually uses $chr(160).

ROFL I seriously doubt it.

Update:
Well heres the line -- tabbed spacing.

Its chars.
-t10,20 means 10 chars for the first column, 10 for the second.
-t5,30 means 5 chars for the first column, 25 for the second.

Well in the v. I have installed here, I dont see it but then I dont suppose its a recent version. (Not that i use it).

Eamonn.

I had replied to this already, but my connection hanged. If another post appears, please delete/do whatever you want :P

Oh, I see. Personally I'm glad its chars instead of pixels, because I've no idea what a pixels is in my screen :P

Ty!