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heres parts of a dialog i made:

Code:

  button "Add", 6, 220 30 23 12
  button "Remove", 7, 220 45 23 12
  edit "", 21, 122 20 95 10
  list 22, 122 32 95 34, size vsbar
}

on *:dialog:blaway:sclick:6: { did -a $dname 22 $did(21) | did -r $dname 21 }

on *:dialog:blaway:sclick:7: { did -d $dname 22 $did($dname,22).sel }

this is part of an away script
it adds reasons to the list box
How would i go about somehow saving the list, so that next time i open the dialog, its still there in the list box ?
Would i have to add and remove them from a txt file as i click the add and remove buttons, or is there a way to directly load up the list.

Code:

on *:dialog:blaway:init:0:{
  var %line = 1
  while ( $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line,2) != $null ) {
    did -a $dname 22 $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line,2)
    inc %line
  }
}
on *:dialog:blaway:close:0:{
  var %line = 1
  while ( $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line,2) != $null ) {
    unset $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line)
    inc %line
  }
  var %line = 1
  while ( $did(blaway,22,%line).text != $null ) {
    set %blawayl $+ %line $did($dname,22,%line).text
    inc %line
  }
}

that didnt work
i made sure i had no other on *:dialog:blaway:init: or on *:dialog:blaway:close: commands
and it still didnt work
would there be any other way to go about it ?

I tested it on a fresh install of mIRC, worked fine. Some reasons why it wouldn't work is an outdated mIRC or not using "/dialog -m blaway blaway" to make the dialog.

The other ways of doing it would be putting while or goto loops in aliases and using the alias every time you opened/closed the dialog, but that is just a different way of writing the same thing.

No idea why it doesn't work for you, hopefully someone else can help

Here is the entire script I used:

Code:

dialog blaway {
  title "blaway"
  size -1 -1 223 145
  option dbu
  list 22, 5 25 100 100
}
on *:dialog:blaway:init:0:{
  var %line = 1
  while ( $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line,2) != $null ) {
    did -a $dname 22 $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line,2)
    inc %line
  }
}
on *:dialog:blaway:close:0:{
  var %line = 1
  while ( $eval(% $+ blawayl $+ %line,2) != $null ) {
    unset % $+ blawayl $+ %line
    inc %line
  }
  var %line = 1
  while ( $did(blaway,22,%line).text != $null ) {
    set %blawayl $+ %line $did($dname,22,%line).text
    inc %line
  }
}

ok i wen through my hole script
i had an extra "}" b4 the script start
so it was stuffing it up
but now
if i remove a reason form the list box
the next time i open it
its still there

Dunno why that is, it shouldn't happen because all variables are unset and then set again when you close it. Works for me, very odd, and annoying,..

im using 6.03 so i dunno...
ill fiddle around with it

thanks a bunch mate

Code:

on *:dialog:blaway:init:*:{
  if ($exists(blawaybuf.txt)) loadbuf -o $dname 22 blawaybuf.txt
}
on *:dialog:blaway:close:*:{
  savebuf -o $dname 22 blawaybuf.txt
}

that works perfectly

thanks

Besides using loadbuf, also check out /didtok and $didtok