$active is used to return the currently active window. So when $active is used to return the status window it returns exactly that: "status window". now my question is how do you bring the status widow back to the active state from another window. I have tried using "/window -a Status Window" but all it get back is :* /window: invalid parameters. I suspect that /window was only set up to take one parameter when concerned with the window name so maybe this is a bug?

/window -a "Status Window"

well that was simple enough

sure was It's the same thing with using directories with spaces in them and the quotes. mirc just chokes at the spaces unless the quortes are around it