Forums Scripts & Popups echo -i

Hi,
I'm using echo -i for alignment now and I was just wondering if I can use a char or identifier in the line that would make the text go to the next line with the indent without wrapping. for eg.

'this is a test
next line!'

the point of this is that i wanted to know if it was possible, because it'd save me from using 2 echos.

Suggestions welcome

if you mean using 1 command and outputting 2 lines, this might help ya



that makes it output 2 echo's, just from typeing /echotest, you can use this to add it to a script, but i'm not that good at advanced scripting, but this should help you

sorry I didn't make my question really clear, i just need the echo in 1 line to make my life easier the way I did a theme.

my theme reads from ini's and its laid out like
[event-name]
header=join
text=$nick blah blah blah

the header is just where it indents so it aligns and everything.
I just wanted to know if I could put a char or identifier in the 'text' section so it'd start a new line, so i can echo more aligned stuff. I hope this makes sense!

You can create a custom alias such as $_echo which looks for a certain character (in this example $chr(10)) in the text and splits the echos up according to that character:

alias _echo {
var %o = $1
tokenize 10 $2
echo %o $*
}

Use this as an identifier where the first parameter is your color/switches/window name, i.e. //.echo -q $_echo(4 -e @Win,your text here) and $lf separates different lines in your text (character 10). The reason I suggest a custom identifier and not a /_echo alias is because it makes it easier to identify the settings parameters of the command

wow thanks for that, its a really good idea. I should have delimited the lines myself, I dunno why I didn't think of that. Maybe because I'm thick, but thanks for the code

yoou might wanna put mirc's width into the equation if its for a theme