Forums Feature Suggestions Simplify connecting to multiple servers

There's a use case that I regularly want but almost always spend five minutes re-learning whenever I need it, because I find it counter-intuitive.

Namely, I want to be able to connect to channels spanning multiple servers at the same time (on different networks). The intuitive way to do this would be to right-click the empty space in the left pane (which shows the servers/channels you're connected to), and the context menu that appears would include an option such as "Connect to a new server" or "Add a server connection" or something like that.

Instead, I have to go to File->New Window, then select a server and connect. This is fine; but it would really save me (and hopefully others) discovery time if there was a context menu item for this in the server list.

Thanks for your consideration!

This sounds more like a Feature suggestion rather than a bug.

Since you regularly want to connect to these servers, my recommendation is to use a small script that runs when you start mIRC.

The basics for the script have been posted many times before, and basically look like this

Of course, you'll have to replace the network and channel information to make it appropriate for your situation.

I also recommend, if you do it this way, that you disable the Enable perform on connect, which is located at mIRC Options -> Connect -> Options -> Perform

You can get more details about the /server command and the various switches and parameters (I kept it simple in the code), by looking at /help /server

Whoops, I intended to post this in the Feature Suggestions forum. Thank you for this script; it will help a lot. It's become quite a chore to manually connect to the servers/join the channels every time I open mIRC.

This is my chief complaint with mIRC: having to monotonously reconnect to each server and join every channel individually after rebooting.

Sure, I could come up with a simple script, but this is a basic usability issue; mIRC already has settings that try to 'restore' the client to it's last-known state, it should go further and re-connect to each server and re-join the channels you were last in.

I'd compare this to browsers restoring your tabs after a reboot/crash--it's sooo handy.