It's just become an instinct to always put a halt per if unless I needed it to -not- have a halt. I've only recently gotten back into mSL, the last thing I ever did was two years ago, and trying to re-study everything.

lol Zsadist, you're not alone. Many people dislike goto. It was served as a way of proceeding your snippet and nothing more. One last thing you really don't need is the /halt command in each if and else statement. Your code works fine without it.

Whoops, thought I missed something. I'll get on that.

Also, I hate goto's and won't use them unless absolutely necessary.

Also, I found a bug though. If you are not away and then you enter /away, you'll get the output of > [Away] I have returned from: (0secs)So you need to make the else an elseif to check that if you are in fact away instead:

elseif ($away) {
    nick $mnick
    msg $active [Away] I have returned from: $awaymsg ( $+ $duration($awaytime) $+ )
    away
    halt
  }

This also ensures that you don't start the nick $mnick change and /away routine for nothing upon entering /away when you aren't away by accident.

Seeing all the halts, which aren't really needed, you might as well use goto if you fancy them:

away {
  goto $iif($1-,x,y) 
  :x
  if (!$away) { 
    tnick $me $+ $(|) $+ $$?="Please enter an Addon for your nick (away/sleep/brb):"
    msg $active [Away] I am now away. Reason: $1- - Time: $time(hh:nn:sstt)
    away $1-
  }
  else echo -a [Away] Error: You are already away - To return, just type: /away 
  halt
  :y
  nick $mnick
  msg $active [Away] I have returned from: $awaymsg ( $+ $duration($awaytime) $+ )
  away
  halt
}

...lol Yes @ napa

Oh right. My mistake. I don't reckon the $1- will work for nicks with spaces anyway.

Jethro_ I think he is using $1- for the away message not the nick...

You know, I've just realized that the $$? isn't necessary, because you can specify it through $1 as such:

tnick $+($me,|,$1-)

so when you enter, for example, /away brb, the script will then change it to the temp nick Jethro|brb

I just don't see the necessity to go the extra mile to engage in a popup prompt, especially this is simply a self-trigger alias.

Zsadist Wrote:

tnick and mnick, which btw was very useful. Thanks.

You are welcome...

mIRC doesn't allow the use of recursive aliases anymoreOk I didn't know of the change, nor did RusselB, I suppose.

And there you go, tnick and mnick, which btw was very useful. Thanks.

mIRC will just keep calling the alias rather than the internal commandIt's not completely necessary since mIRC doesn't allow the use of recursive aliases anymore

Well, if you notice that this snippet works just fine even without the !, it does the internal command.

AAH! i understood what you mean now. I always found strange that we could call an alias from within that alias.

Thanks :)

Well, it'll work, but according to RusselB, and I assisted someone at the forum awhile back, and I quote, "If you don't use the ! in front of the command in these circumstances, mIRC will just keep calling the alias rather than the internal command." That is to say, if your alias command is the same as mirc's default one. You can reference to this post below and you'll see what I mean:

http://www.hawkee.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109349&highlight=#109349

/tnick is a command; it's not an identifier. MoshMage, I didn't make the rule; it's part of mIRC's coding grammar.

Also, I can't find anything in the mIRC help file for $tnick or tnick itself, found $mnick though.

Uh, no you don't. I'm on mIRC 7.14 and it works absolutely fine the way it is. And I'll look into the tnick mnick. You do -not- have to use a ! infront of away. So why don't you go try it and see that it works :)

oi? how come?! you lost me there (is that a new rule or sumfin?)

Since the /away is mIRC's internal command, you need to put an exclamation mark for:

!away $1-

and

!away

Never occured to me the use for tnick and mnick. lol. But now that i think about it, it does make sense using that x)

sweet snippet nonetheless :)

maybe take advantage of tnick tempnick and nick $mnick when doing the nick changes and no need to set that %nick var.