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Dear mIRC User,

mIRC v7.81 has been released today.

This is a small update that adds features and addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes, including:

Added Follow Windows Dark Mode option to Display dialog.
Fixed server-specific settings not being loaded on startup.
Updated OpenSSL library to v3.0.16.
Changed Treebar non-focus selected item to use more visible color in dark mode.
Added custom dialog scroll properties pos N and page N.
Changed nickname auto-color feature to use improved contrast ratios.
Fixed DirectShow crash bug relating to sound initialization on startup.
Fixed Aero theme bug when Windows 11 transparency effects are enabled.
Fixed Alt+X not working to toggle the maximized state for desktop @windows.
Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

How to upgrade?
mIRC is distributed in an installer that installs mIRC on your computer for you. Simply download and run the installer from the download page on the mIRC website. Follow the instructions the installer gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out.

Where to download?
As always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page on the mIRC website.

Registering mIRC
As you know, mIRC can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great and much appreciated if you registered your copy. This licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. You can find out how to register here.

Full list of Fixes, Changes and Additions.
For a more detailed list of recent changes, please see the whatsnew.txt file. You will need to read through the help file to learn more about these changes and their impact. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work. May we invite you to use these forums for all questions you might have? The forums offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

Thanks for using mIRC, have fun on IRC!

Services in regards to this post are the package that contains Nickserv, chanserv, etc. It does not come with an IRCd.

Title says it all. Been working for the last week or so deploying an IRC server with services. I cant tell you how many challenges i ran into trying to get it to run. it was such a wild ride with obsticales at every corner. I have worked in IT Administration for over 20 years and like all challenges regarding technology- i don't tire easy. I met this task head on, spent days of work with failed results but learned every step of the way.

I started with inspircd and got that running fairly smoothly. It was installed on debian vps and went through the entire config file line by line (1000+ lines) and fully configured it to my liking. I started researching the different service offerings (Atheme, Anope, etc) and thought i diddnt need much, so i settled on the ChatServices package. My research indicated it should work with inspircd but no matter what i did, i could not get either of them to communicate. I spent two days (~12+ hours) trying to get these two working together. It felt like i was repeatedly slamming my head into a wall, nothing worked.

I enabled debug logging in inspircd and anope and really dug in to try and sort out the issue but now, simple things were breaking. It wouldn't log anything, connections were being refused and then accepted and then refused. Config files had permission issues. I was going down rabbit holes and hyper focusing on issues that likely had no relation to the real problems i was having. Then i had a thought, DOCKER! There has to be a docker container with anope and IRC linked, out of the box, ready to go.

Nope! You can find containers with anope and inspircd or unrealircd but they lack config files and seem like test grounds for the users. I spent another day playing with different docker containers and never found anything that proved useful. although, i did learn a good bit about docker (something prior to this i had very little experience with).

Ive now reinstalled my server 10 or so times and have come up with a plan. Ill go with unrealIRC and anope, the two most widely implemented services. Ill install them directly to the machine and use a standard user account for both. instead of modifying config files with nano, i switched to sftp and modified them on my local machine (some formatting issue was preventing logging earlier). Finally, things were starting to work out. I ran into a silly issue while trying to get services working (anope) - but turned out to be me mismatching the ports each expected to connect too. I discovered the issue, changed the port number and tried one final time to launch both softwares - UREKA! They connected!

I spent the better part of two days working through the different config files and studying the documentation on both softwares. Ensuring best practices and considering encryption methods for security, etc. I now have a full fledged IRC network running Anope Services offering standard connections and TLS Encrypted connections.

This felt like a huge accomplishment to me, every bit of documentation i read warned me the task would not be easy. I was steadfast and headstrong and came out with a server running smoothly. I know it sounds silly, but as a young kid who used IRC alot, a small bit of me has always wanted to run my own IRC server. So screw the influence content creators, i just want some people to idle with me and pat my back on my sucess.

Feel free to ask questions. The server adheres to IRCv3 standards. all passwords are hashed with sha2. the TLS connection is signed with a lets encrypt certificate.

TLDR- I worked really hard to create an IRC server, something I have always wanted to do since i was very young. I have over 20 years IT experience. I want some people to come hang out in the IRC server.

irc.null-net.net
Ports: 6667, 6697 (SSL)

Hi Khaled,

I would like to ask if it would be possible to add back the Add to Favorites function... removed since version 7.69 from the Favorites menu.



Several users talk to me and say that this function is useful to directly add the active channel, without having to open the Favorites dialog and having to add it manually.

Thank you

Good morning.
I am an English to Italian translator and I am currently translating this program into Italian but the thing is that I was able to get the language dll file but it is bugged since there are parts that still remain in english and on top of that some voices are missing. Is it possible to have the best dll file so that I can complete this job? Thank you

Hi everybody.
What is the most easy way (maybe thee're more than one) to customize dialogs style in mIRC 7.79? I mean background, font, etc...
I read about Stardust200 but doesn't work on Win10.
Thanks

I found an addon that on nick join/nick change , check the nick and if a nick has a badword receive a kick:


I wish it to check a file badnick.txt, so no need to add a lot of words in addon. Something like:


What do You think?
Thanks

I just downloaded the latest update for mIRC (i use this daily). I can not say how thankful i am to now have a dark mode supported on win 11. It is truly softer on the eyes and that helps me a lot. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Dear mIRC User,

mIRC v7.79 has been released today.

This is a small update that adds features and addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes, including:

Added support for dark mode on Windows 10/11.
Fixed empty perform list entry crash bug.
Fixed Options/DCC dialog radio buttons not working correctly.
Added support for loading WebP image files.
Fixed per server connect on startup bug.
Fixed Log View dialog crash bug when loading large log files.
Fixed control codes being stripped out of displayed lines in some events.
Added Line shading option to Display/Options dialog that shades alternate lines.
Fixed status window system menu not having a default logging menu item.
Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

How to upgrade?
mIRC is distributed in an installer that installs mIRC on your computer for you. Simply download and run the installer from the download page on the mIRC website. Follow the instructions the installer gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out.

Where to download?
As always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page on the mIRC website.

Registering mIRC
As you know, mIRC can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great and much appreciated if you registered your copy. This licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. You can find out how to register here.

Full list of Fixes, Changes and Additions.
For a more detailed list of recent changes, please see the whatsnew.txt file. You will need to read through the help file to learn more about these changes and their impact. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work. May we invite you to use these forums for all questions you might have? The forums offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

Thanks for using mIRC, have fun on IRC!

Are there any networks with a non-client way to suppress all join/part messages in every channel always?

It would be nice if $window().pbstate & $window().pbpercent was extended to support dcc windows via:

The code i'm using already has the wid & this would save me having to figure out which wid is a which dcc.

8 Autojoin=#chaco-corrientes,#paranachat

alias con {
var %i = 1
while (%i <= 15) {
echo -a %i $read(config.ini,%i)
inc %i
}
}

i want add some chanel to autojoin
how i do it?

please help

When changing the "Light theme" to a "Dark theme", becomes much more visible the difference in the thickness of the channel window divider between the nicklist, and the thickness of the channel window divider between the editbox. Perfectionists will experience daily pain and suffering.

I propose to equalize them by reducing the thickness of the divider between the channel window and the nicklist so that it is identical to the thickness of the divider between the channel window and the editbox.


Visual example:

    

Since the recent beta contains a Windows 10/11 specific (and experimental) dark theme, I was wondering if that also paves the way for other functions that are specific to certain Windows versions only.

I've had a little DLL project called mircThumbBar (also m7rc, since I made it back with Windows 7) for the longest time, so I can play/pause and prev/next my MP3 player even when mIRC is in the background.
I had my fair share of issues with it, but got something working and have been using it for over 15 years at this point. It looks like this:


This uses the Thumbnail Toolbar API from the ITaskbarList3 interface (and some maybe not-so-nice redirecting of the mIRC WndProc to get events back to me). Regular $dll calls to prepare the list, then finally display it. Memory mapped file for the back-channel so I can react to clicks by calling one of my functions/aliases.

I'm not too sure about a command sequence though. Those three buttons on top are three AddButton calls followed by a CreateButtons call (basically: Queue up buttons, set their properties, then trigger the toolbar creation/modification). Later, I use SetButtonIcon/SetButtonFlags and UpdateButtons to (queue and then) make changes; for example when I pause/play and want to change the image.
Maybe as part of /window, perhaps as a new /thumbbar command? To test (and read), accompanying $window (or $thumbbar) identifiers? I can totally see this work without the CreateButtons/UpdateButtons calls, but I feel like I overengineered this to optimize how often I have to call the ITaskbarList3 methods...not to mention that I took a few shortcuts and didn't implement things I didn't need, like RemoveButton/ClearButtons.
There's other Vista/7+ functions for augmenting and interacting with the taskbar, but I feel like those buttons are the most useful ones here. Doing nothing (or returning an error) for Windows versions that don't support the functionality should be fairly easy to do, but at this point none of them are really in support anymore.

Microsoft published a sample project, and my code is here in this Gist.

...and I would like to translate (localize) mIRC into Italian.

I suggest improving the script editor and making it a clickable path to folder, so that it is in the form of a link and when you click on it, the folder with the script opens.
It would be much more convenient if, when editing a script, you could immediately go to the folder of this script to create additional working files.

Visual example:

    

Good evening. Is there an addon or a way to know how many times a NICK (i.e. PIPPO) parted and joined from a channel? Of course I mean since I joined in that same channel.
Thanks

Dear mIRC User,

mIRC v7.78 has been released today.

This is a small update that adds features and addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes, including:

Fixed SCRAM logon authentication bugs.
Added Windows taskbar support for DCC Send/Get progress bars.
Fixed Aero theme helper windows startup flicker bug.
Changed "Hide away reminders" option to apply to all contexts.
Added support for loading SVG files.
Fixed server list parsing bug causing random crashes.
Fixed $regml() bug relating to /F and empty groups.
Fixed flickering menubar bug.
Updated libraries to OpenSSL v3.0.15, TagLib v2.0.2, and LibZip v1.11.2.
Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

How to upgrade?
mIRC is distributed in an installer that installs mIRC on your computer for you. Simply download and run the installer from the download page on the mIRC website. Follow the instructions the installer gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out.

Where to download?
As always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page on the mIRC website.

Registering mIRC
As you know, mIRC can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great and much appreciated if you registered your copy. This licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. You can find out how to register here.

Full list of Fixes, Changes and Additions.
For a more detailed list of recent changes, please see the whatsnew.txt file. You will need to read through the help file to learn more about these changes and their impact. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work. May we invite you to use these forums for all questions you might have? The forums offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

Thanks for using mIRC, have fun on IRC!

Would it be possible to extend the behavior of $dialog( N ) to be able to take an optional table argument as well, such that it (as would hopefully be obvious) returns the name of the Nth dialog using a specific dialog table (or the total number of them if N == 0), rather than just giving an "invalid name" error as it does currently? I realize this use case might very well be rather niche; I'm not entirely sure how common it is to even have multiple dialogs with the same dialog table open at once, and of course it isn't difficult to emulate the behavior by checking the table property, but certainly some scripts somewhere must allow multiple dialogs with the same table to be open at once, and for those that do, not having to manually make that specific check would probably be a small but nice bit of relief.

Hello people.
I want to replace mdx.dll for dcx.dll on my script but I couldn't understand how to use it. Can anyone explain me how can I replace this code here from mdx.dll to dcx.dll?!

mdx SetMircVersion $version | mdx MarkDialog mp3_system
mdx SetDialog mp3_system icon sistema/imagens/player32.ico

mdx SetDialog mp3_system bgcolor $rgb(0,0,0)

mdx SetFont mp3_system 120 20 500 Segoe UI

mdx SetColor mp3_system 70 text $rgb(255,255,255)
mdx SetColor mp3_system 70 textbg $rgb(0,0,0)
mdx SetColor mp3_system 70 background $rgb(0,0,0)

mdx SetBorderStyle mp3_system 70 windowedge



thank you

I am running a script. There are 53 messages that execute over an hr and half period. My problem is that as my script gets further in the timing is drifting. My script slowly starts running faster than it should. The seconds are scripted correctly for when I want them to execute. At about 10 minutes the script is executing about 1 minute ahead. By an hr they are executing 6 minutes ahead. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The script appears as such
/timer 1 60 msg #test welcome
/timer 1 100 msg #test 1st message

Hello I use mirc 7.77 and above the icons where the heart is on the right is the "channel list" button.
Click and the menu comes up and if I click on "search" or "list" all the channels on the server come up but the list of channels on the server doesn't come up.
The menu closes and the Channels list window is empty.

How does the search and list button work?
In the help: https://www.mirc.com/help/html/channels_list.html

Thank you

When mirc.ini contains:

[background]
wserv=<filename>,<type>
wchat=<filename>,<type>

and first we open file server, window is getting correct photo from wserv (default for all file server window).
Now if we open chat ( and leave previously open file server ) background for file server window is changed for a file from chat (wchat).

Can this be fixed?
Regards.

In UnrealIRCd, RAW 569 returns information that should not be.

Example:
-- Testing 12322 is connecting from AS12322 [Free SAS]

And it should show:
-- Testing is connecting from AS12322 [Free SAS]

More info:
https://github.com/unrealircd/unrea...LEASE-NOTES.md#developers-and-protocol-1
https://github.com/weechat/weechat/issues/2162

I am looking to make a script that only logs channels on one of many connections on a single client.

Some connections are in the same channel and I don't want my logs showing everything twice. I could just run separate clients I know bu I'm just looking for a way to keep it to one client.

I made a very basic script (I'm not at the pc atm so I can't post it) but the script simply turns on logging if I'm using specific user names.

The problem I feel my solution will face is random dcs or once logging is enabled it stays on, and I don't think I should use a script that enables or disables logging based on current nick as a viable option.

I'm trying to use this string to set a QUIET in my channel


/cs set +b ~q:nick!*@*


But it doesn't work.
Why?
Thanks