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#28163 04/06/03 09:43 PM
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I Think mIRC may contains a lagbar in default.
I have written a lot of lagbars for mIRC in my scripts.
But why not can be a default "option"?
I may be only shown in a window or in the titlebar else it may be a grafical object in the end of the icon row...
I made all of these variations, and it could be very pretty cool

Don't you think will it useful?

Sarkanyka
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#28164 04/06/03 11:30 PM
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As I have stated in 3 recent threads already, lagbars are generally useless eyecandy that waste more server resources than necessary.

What's unfortunate is that most popular scripts people use today have lagbar addons that can conceivably bring a server to its knees (if not already).

Try this thread for ideas on writing a simple, single server PING request and displaying the results. To do something like this continuously though is wasteful client behaviour and a crime against the server.

- Raccoon


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#28165 08/06/03 12:11 PM
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I agree with Raccoon here. Lagbars are generally hard to interpret anyway. In Xchat (I know, I say "Xchat" a lot) you can choose to just see the lag in seconds, presumably measured at regular intervals. It's much more informative.

#28166 08/06/03 12:57 PM
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This gave me another idea. If Khaled could add into mIRC something like a lagbar (optional however), to show when you last received data from the server. I hope I don't need to explain myself further on that.

#28167 08/06/03 07:43 PM
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If I understand that right, you want a lag bar to see the latency of the last incoming message? Am I concluding correctly?


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#28168 08/06/03 11:33 PM
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For example, if you have debug on, it will show something like the below in the log file.

<- :mesra.kl.my.dal.net

And what I want, is whenever I receive ANY type of data from the server, meaning anything written with <- at the beginning in the log file, it resets the lag bar.


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