nicklist qusestion - mIRC Discussion Forums

I have the following

Code:

menu nicklist {
  Idle : echo -a $$1 has been idle on $chan for $duration($nick($chan,$$1).idle)
}

and it works, but, what I'd like, is to have the idle time just show in the menu when I select Idle, as the nick and the channel are already pre-determined, so I don't really need that in the display.

I tried

Code:

menu nicklist {
Idle : $duration($nick($chan,$$1).idle)
}

But that just gave me an Unknown command message, indicating the time being returned was trying to be used as a command (which makes sense)

Something like this?

Code:

menu nicklist {
  Idle ( $duration($nick($chan,$$1).idle) ): noop
}

Solution found

Code:

menu nicklist {
Idle
.$duration($nick($chan,$$1).idle) : noop
}

P.S.: Hixxy's suggestion also works, and actually looks better than what I had.

If you really want the :

Code:

menu nicklist {
  $style(2) Idle $+ $chr(58) $duration($nick($chan,$$1).idle): noop
}

$style(2) disables the menu item so you can't click it.

Note that the one caveat is that you can't use $chr to escape : with $submenu, but you shouldn't run into that one for a while.

The nicklist popup could get rather long when the idle time is high

Code:

menu nicklist {
  Idle  $replace($remove($duration($nick($chan,$$1).idle),ecs,ins,rs,ays,ks,ec,in,r,ay,k),w,w,d,d,h,h,m,m,s,s)))):/
}

PS - I've always used : / in a popup to do the kind of thing the OP asks for, just wondered if it makes a difference?
thanks.

It doesn't make a difference, but the whole point of this post was about using : in menu items, not the rest of his code.

In any case, a regsub would be far less code for the above replacement:

Code:

$+(Idle,$chr(58)) $regsubex($duration($nick(#,$$1).idle), /([a-z])[a-z]+/g, \1):noop

very nice, i like that.

tested your code, and it worked just fine

Code:

$+(Idle,$chr(58)) $regsubex($duration($nick(#,$$1).idle), /([a-z])[a-z]+/g, \1):noop

And then i tested to make something to see idle time in query window, but i don't know what to use instead of # sign, anyone that know and can share the info with me?

Code:

$+(Idle,$chr(58)) $regsubex($duration($query($$1).idle), /([a-z])[a-z]+/g, \1):noop

Reference /help $query

ty, did forget about that one