I was trying to make a welcome message script
and...
It didn't work..

Could anybody tell me what is wrong with this -

on *:JOIN:#:{ /msg $chan Welcome! - $nick - }

The code looks fine. My guess is that you have another on join event somewhere in the same file that is causing this one to not work. Try moving it to a separate file by clicking File -> New, then paste it there and try again.

For future reference, you can only have one (of the same kind) of even per channel per file. Here's an example:

on *:TEXT:!hi:#MyChannel:{ msg $chan Hi $nick }

on *:TEXT:!hi:#MyChannel:{ msg $chan Hello there $nick }

Since both events are the same (text trigger '!hi' for #MyChannel), the second one is never going to work, unless you place it in a separate file. It hits the first one and stops.


Here's another example:

on *:TEXT:*:#MyChannel:{ msg $chan some text }

on *:TEXT:!hi:#MyChannel:{ msg $chan Hello there $nick }

This time, the events are a bit different but still the same channel and the first is a 'broader' event in that it triggers on any message. However the same thing will happen here. The first event will trigger, and the second one will not.

Oh, yes, thank you..
I have another on join query...

if it is written exactly as you show it here

on *:JOIN:#:{ /msg $chan Welcome! - $nick - }

look above it in that script, is there another "on join" script?
mIRC only looks til it sees a match

on *:JOIN:#channel1:{ }
is diferent than
on *:join:#mirc:{}

so you could have
on *:JOIN:#channel1:{ }
on *:join:#mirc:{}
on *:join:#:{}

BUT
on *:join:#:{}
on *:JOIN:#channel1:{ }
on *:join:#mirc:{}
then only the on *:join:#:{} would work, because it is non specific, mIRC sees the first matching parameter and stops looking.

I just didn't want to specify the chan

on *:JOIN:#<chan>:{ /msg $chan Welcome! - $nick - }

works perfectly, just needed to make new file..

-THANKS-