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Nickname coloring problem #99032 28/09/04 03:52 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 230 G greeny OP Fjord artisan
OP greeny Fjord artisan G Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 230	Hi there. I'm currently finishing my theme engine and have stumbled across a problem I can't seem to fix. I want to color nicknames in channel windows (on text/on action events) just like they would be colored in default mIRC without scripts. What I use now is "$nick($chan,$nick).color", but my problem is that it returns "1" (default text color) if the nick doesn't match any of the entries in the nickname coloring setup of mIRC (ALT+B -> Colors). I need to know if the nick doesn't match any entry so I can skip coloring instead of making it the default text color. It's quite difficult to explain, I hope you know what I mean... Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99033 28/09/04 05:26 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321	Use $cnick($nick) - it will return 0 if the nick isn't in the alt-b > colors list. Code: if ($cnick($nick)) { dostuff }

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99034 28/09/04 05:35 PM
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OP greeny Fjord artisan G Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 230	That doesn't work. Example: I have 1 entry in the colors list, which marks all ops in red color. $cnick(<opnick here>) will return 0, but infact it would have to be displayed in red.

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99035 28/09/04 05:44 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321	In which case you can use $cnick(@): Code: if ($cnick($nick)) { dostuff } elseif ($regex($left($nick($chan,$nick).pnick,1),/([.~!*&@%+])/)) { if ($cnick($regml(1))) { dostuff } }

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99036 28/09/04 05:54 PM
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OP greeny Fjord artisan G Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 230	The thing is, I would have to do the same for ignore/op/voice/protect/notify lists, all user modes, idle time, user levels and addresses. And this for every text and action event. It would take ages writing such a script and text processing would be slow as hell. But I guess there is no simple way, so I'll head over to the feature suggestions forum... I just don't understand why Khaled didn't let "$nick($chan,$nick).color" return $null when there is no entry. Oh well...

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99037 28/09/04 06:04 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321	You don't have to check for notify, ignore, user levels, etc, $cnick() does that for you ($cnick() won't return the colour for an entry in the color list unless it matches all of the criteria) The following will work fine: Code: alias iscolour { if ($cnick($1)) { return $cnick($1).color } elseif ($regex($left($nick($2,$1).pnick,1),/([.~!*&@%+])/)) { if ($cnick($regml(1))) { return $cnick($regml(1)).color } } return 0 } $iscolour(nick,channel) channel is optional, you need to specify channel if you want to match a certain mode though. It will return the colour if the nick is matched, 0 if it's not.

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99038 28/09/04 06:17 PM
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OP greeny Fjord artisan G Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 230	Doesn't work for me. This is my setup: ("Any nick (@)" = white) Your alias always returns "2" (The "Any nick (No mode)" color), even if the nick is opped or voiced (also if I specify an invalid nick). Thanks for your efforts anyway.

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99039 28/09/04 06:21 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,321	Ah yeah, didn't think of that, you're right, you would have to write a big alias to check all of the possibilities.

Re: Nickname coloring problem #99040 28/09/04 06:24 PM
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OP greeny Fjord artisan G Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 230	Ok, too bad Thanks again.

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