Please Note that starting from mIRC 5.4 the notify list has been moved to the Address Book
Click on any tab on the above image for more information.
I don't think that there is much to be said about General
options. If you can read, then everything is very clear,
but some things are worth mentioning.
Perform Tab
Tick [Highlight text with these words] and put in whatever
words you want.
For example your nick, help, mIRC etc.
Any lines which contain words matching any words in
your list will be highlighted in the highlight colour
you've chosen in the Tools\Colour dialogue.
Don't you get bored waiting for your mIRC to connect
to the server? Under
Perform
you can specify some actions for your mIRC to perform
when it gets a connection.
Check
On connect perform this commands:
and in the window beneath it type
/wavplay connect.wav
Change connect.wav with whatever wave file you want.
Type in [Quit message] box, whatever you want, a funny
message or even your Home Page URL.
Flood Tab
Enable Flood Protection
:- This turns on flood protection on which prevents
mIRC from flooding a server.
Trigger flood check after
:- The number of bytes at which mIRC should check if
it might be flooding the server or not. A High number
will not be useful. A low number will slow down mIRC.
Try to experiment with numbers between 300 and 500.
Max. lines in buffer
The maximum number of lines mIRC will buffer.
Max. lines per person
The maximum number of messages a user can have in
the buffer.
Ignore person for
How long to ignore a user who has exceeded your flood
settings.Between 30 and 60 is reasonable.
Irc switches Tab
As you will notice the options
[Actions are Purple] and [Highlight Own messages]
are missing.
Why? Because you can set these settings from the Tools\Colour
dialogue.
Show
:- Check only
User Addresses
,
Queries in active window
and
Notices in active window
. Otherwise your channel window will be cramped with
unnecessary messages.
Also it is a good idea to have checked ,
Whois on query
and
Rejoin channel when kicked.
Control Tab
If you're not a channel operator the most important
for you is the
Ignore
window. Here you will find all the names/addresses
that you have put on your ignore list.
Don't forget to check
Active
Logging Tab
Tick [Strip control Codes] if you don't want your log
to record the colour codes.
Its a good idea to Log all conversations in channels
and private chats. Check
Channels
and
Private chats.
Lock log files
If this switch is turned off and your log files are
being saved properly then you should leave it turned
off, otherwise turn it on.
Events Beep Tab
Instead of having your mIRC beeping without knowing
the reason. Under
On Event
, specify different wave sound for
Query/Chat, Notice, Invite, Send
and
Disconnect.
Sounds Tab
As you will notice there are new setting in this tab.
Listen for !nick file get requests
:- If this is turned on mIRC will listen for requests
from other users who don't have your sound and want
to DCC Get it from you. mIRC will DCC Send the requested
sound to the user automatically.
Send !nick file as private message
:- If this is turned on, then whenever you use the
!nick file format to DCC Get a file from another user,
mIRC will send the request as a private message instead
of as a channel message. The purpose of this is to
prevent such messages from cluttering the channel.
Location of Wav files
:- Specify your Wav Directory and whenever a wav sound
is requested, mIRC will look in this directory and
all of its sub directories for it.
Location of Mid files
:- Specify your Mid Directory and whenever a Mid sound
is requested, mIRC will look in this directory and
all of its sub directories for it.
Click Tab
This feature allows you to enter a set of commands
that will be executed whenever you double-click in
the specified window.
For example, by default in Status listbox you have
/motd
Change
/motd
with the following
If your an
Undernet
user with this
/server us.undernet.org 6667
If your a
DALnet
user with this
/server irc.dal.net 7000
If your an
EFnet
user with this
/server irc.chat.org 6667
and Double click in your Status window and see what
happens :-)
Drag and Drop Tab
The Drag and Drop feature allows you to pick up files
from other programs and drop them on either Message
or Channel windows. Depending on the type of file you
drop onto a window, a different action will be performed
according to the commands you've defined for that file
type.
By default settings for dropping files with no shift
key pressed are:
*.wav:/sound $1 $2
*.*:/dcc send $1 $2
The default settings for dropping files with the shift
key held down is:
*.*:/dcc send $1 $2
Which means that if you drop a Wave file, it will be
played with the /sound command, and if you drop any
other type of file it will initiate a dcc send to that
user.
$1
stands for the name of the user or channel where the
file has been dropped.
$2
stands for the name of the file that was dropped.
You can define different actions for different types
of files by associating a command with a file ending.
URL Catcher Tab
If this option is turned on
mIRC
will catch references to URL and store them in the
URL listbox.
Turning on this option
slows down mIRC a bit
since it has to scan each incoming line before printing
it, so if you don't need this option it will speed
things up if you turn it off.
mIRC looks for URL beginning with
"http://, ftp://, gopher://, www., and ftp.".
mIRC also checks to make sure addresses are not added
to a list if they already exist. Addresses longer than
256 characters are ignored.
For more help click the URL button on the above mIRC
toolbar.
Servers Tab
Not used much. So if you don't understand what it is,
its not important :-)
If you enable finger Server then the only thing important
is the
Finger Text
The text must be set up with named sections which will
be used to reply to any finger requests.
Each section begins in the following way:
[default]
etc.
[name]
etc.
[default] which will be used to reply to a finger request
which does not specify a user.
[name] corresponds to the userid that is being fingered.
Extras Tab
Not much can be said about this tab.
The options in this dialogue are extra bits and pieces
that don't fit anywhere else. In my humble opinion
only the following three are important
Fast screen update
For users with slower video cards, this updates the
screen in batches instead of individually line by line.
This should speed up screen updating for most users
by quite a bit.
Multi-line editbox
In single line mode, the text scrolls to the right
when you reach the end of the edit box. In multi-line
mode, the text starts again at the left and scrolls
downward. It's probably easier to use multi-line mode
since you can see what you've typed if the line is
long. This mode also allows you to paste several lines
of text into the editbox.
Pop up colour index
If this is turned on, mIRC will pop up a
color index
dialog whenever you press
Control-K
in an editbox to insert a color code.
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