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Is it possible to have a default text already filled in the dialog?

Background: Everytime I connect I'd like to be asked for a nick. Usually I go with the standard one but sometimes (depending on mood) I choose another one.

So it would be convenient to have this dialog pop up before connection and already filled in with my default nick.
Is that possible without programming my own DLL?

killemall

If I understood right, yes it is possible

You can fill in everything: buttons, check boxes, list boxes, edit boxes and normal text! It usually goes like this:
did -ra <name> <id> <text>

The -a will fill the ID with the text you determine, so you kinda need that one for puting text. The -r switch, however, means that it will first erase all data in the ID and then write what you want. If you would like to add something, do not use the -r; if you want to just fill it and erase the previous text, then do use it

In your case you could use the On Start event, open the dialog and then use the On Dialog > init event to fill the listbox/text/whatever..

I hope this was what you were looking for
Zyzzyx

Edit: MonoSex has got a point too

Sure, use $input instead of $?, like $input(prompt,e,title,text).
/help $input

i dont think its possible to use
the $?="input" to add text in but this dialog
would work:
dialog dialogname {
title "Dialog"
size -1 -1 109 41
option dbu
edit "Edit", 1, 7 12 94 10
button "Ok", 2, 7 24 33 12
button "Cancel", 3, 67 24 33 13
text " Enter A Nick Name To Use ....", 4, 8 3 92 8
}
on *:CONNECT:{
dialog -m dialogname dialogname
}
on *:DIALOG:dialogname:init:0:{
did -ra $dname 1 $me
}
on *:DIALOG:dialogname:SCLICK:2:{
nick $did(1)
dialog -c $dname
}
on *:DIALOG:dialogname:SCLICK:3:{
dialog -c $dname
}
EDIT: didnt see the other 2 posts

Thanx everybody for the help!!

I'm sure all solutions would work, whereas MonoSex's way of doing it seem to be the easiest.

But it is good to know that I can create dialogs with the /dialog command and that there is a command like /did to modifiy values of dialog controls.

So, thanx guys you're great!

killemall