I'm with you! hehe, very true. I always avoided using sockmarks because they always seemed to be extra work when you can just declare a little variable. I think that's since i removed the timer, it's fixed now.

Jonesy, your script's got a persistent error upon closing the dialog: > * Invalid parameters: $did (line 19, testing.mrc)Perhaps you should make a check to see if it's closed or not?

Sorry, i meant like, how the sockmark overcomes the issue of looping? :\
Ok, I think I missed your point... But still, I believe you don't need the updatefollowers alias and just use:

alias TrackFollowers {
  set -e %Twitter.Track $$1
  dialog $iif($dialog(TrackFollowers),-v,-m) trackfollowers trackfollowers
  sockopen $+(TrackFollowers.,$ticks) twitter.com 80
}
on *:Sockopen:TrackFollowers.*: {
  sockwrite -nt $sockname GET $+(/,%Twitter.Track) HTTP/1.1
  sockwrite -nt $sockname Host: twitter.com
  sockwrite -nt $sockname $crlf
}
on *:Sockread:TrackFollowers.*: {
  var %x | sockread %x
  if $regex(%x,<span id="follower_count" class="stats_count numeric">(.*) </span>) {
    var %c = $calc($remove($regml(1),$chr(44)) - $remove($did(TrackFollowers,202),$chr(44)))
    did -ra TrackFollowers 302 $iif($did(TrackFollowers,202),$iif(%c > 0,%c ( $+ $calc($ctime - %Twitter.Last) secs),$did(TrackFollowers,302)),n/a)
    did -ra TrackFollowers 202 $regml(1)
    did -ra TrackFollowers 400 Updated: $fulldate
    set -e %Twitter.Last $ctime
    sockopen $+(TrackFollowers.,$ticks) twitter.com 80
    .sockclose $sockname
  }
}

Which saves you 3 bytes. :p

Sorry, i meant like, how the sockmark overcomes the issue of looping? :\

jonesy44 Wrote:
Although, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the sockmarks.The /sockmark command basically acts like a temporary storage (it holds up to 512 bytes) for you to input data, and you can then use $sock($sockname).mark for reference later during the socket operation. It's quite nifty really, and it doesn't act like a global variable where you have to unset it. It clears itself when it finishes its task.

I've added the -e flag to the global, good shout. Although, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the sockmarks. the update alias is to keep a loop after the end of each socket connection :/

Ahh i was using a timer to update each second instead of re-updating once one run is complete. I'll remove it now. Thanks :D

Nice work, Jonsey44!

But I think you could improve it a bit:

I believe you could get rid of the updatefollowers alias and do:

alias trackfollowers {
  dialog $iif($dialog(TrackFollowers),-v,-m) TrackFollowers TrackFollowers
  sockopen $+(TrackFollowers.,$ticks) twitter.com 80
  sockmark UpdateFollowers $iif($$1 isnum,$v1)
}

You can use /sockmark command to set for $1, and you may need to make sure it's a number, not something else. The $$ ensures that $1 is supplied.
Then in this bit, you do:

sockwrite -nt $sockname GET $+(/,$sock(trackfollowers).mark) HTTP/1.1

And lastly, you may need to add a -e switch so that the variable gets unset when mirc closes or exists:

set -e %Twitter.Last $ctime

I mean, it's a good practice to always keep the variables clean.

P.S. I don't understand why > .timerTrack off Either I missed or didn't see the timer.