IRC

[Philip]

Do any of you use IRC? Or more specifically mIRC? Do you know how to code scripts at all?

Edited October 12, 2011 by Philip

[Pic0o]

Negatory on IRC scripts or use. Most of my scripting skills are automation and data porting.

[Pea]

Lol used to use it but no more... never learned how to script. Some of my friends did, we had trivia rooms and other such nonsense.

[Philip]

Lol used to use it but no more... never learned how to script. Some of my friends did, we had trivia rooms and other such nonsense.

Awesome.

 

I got mIRC to look reasonably pretty

 

I've been using a different client (irssi) for a while now. It's not perfect, but it's got some huge advantages over mIRC. For example, you can connect to two servers and a channel for each server upon start up. This doesn't sound particularly fancy, but the nice thing about it is that the two servers can all be on the one window (or split windows, if you prefer). With mIRC, there's this really nasty tree of servers and getting it to connect to two servers is just a pain.

 

I also have a spell checker/word filter. This is nice, because some channels ban for profanity, and I've put in the most common swearwords.

 

 

With this, the highlight window grabs all highlighted text from any window on any server. Channel 1 is on server 1, but Channel 2 is on server two. Switching between channels on different servers is the same as switching between channels on the same server.

[Pea]

Hmmmm cool beans! I don't remember having a hard time with being on multiple servers and in multiple rooms on each server with mirc but maybe we had a different version? On one system I actually had it auto open 3 different servers, a couple rooms on each upon startup. Then all I had to do was minimize which windows I didn't need to see, leaving any rooms open I needed, regardless of server, and click that little button that boxes up the rooms for you. And the order the rooms were clicked on would determine the order they boxed up in, so I could always have the most important room in the upper left, etc. :icon_happy:

[Philip]

Yeah it's not too difficult it's mostly just the look of it, because there'd be a tree with what servers and channels you on. With irssi, multiple servers just function in the way one server would--I think it's superior in that regard.

[Pea]

Hmmm... I don't think I know what you mean by tree... unless you mean off to the left hand side and stuff? I always got rid of that and used the channel buttons up top since the server would show up there too. But the top list couldn't be organized I think.

[Philip]

Yeah I mean that tree, but I just found if I removed that, the top bit looked ugly. It was a lose/lose situation for me.

[h0m3r]

I use Xchat since it's supported in Windows and Linux. It has plugin support for scripts written in Python (one of my fav languages), Perl, Ruby, Lua, and Javascript, as well as C modules. I think Irssi (and most IRC clients) supports Perl scripts.

 

Just do some basic Perl tuts and then look up your client's Perl API and you're on your way.

[Philip]

I am in love with irc.

 

I used to be against talking in groups because I felt that it was hard to get a decent conversation going. I feel differently now. Talking to people on their own isn't always good--it's easy for friends views to rub off on you--your arguments don't get subjected to enough angles of attack.

 

When learning something new, it's great to be surrounded by people who might have similar problems.

 

Irssi looks beautiful :).