Snackoids & IRC script

[vakkotaur]

Some fundraiser thing here resulted in delivery of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to many people this morning. The engineering secretary sent an email about food at her desk. This was interesting as she said "food" and not "treats" this time.

Yes, there are (or were last I looked) a couple boxes of doughnuts. But there was also a fruit platter and a vegetable platter. I already had a doughnut courtesy of the fellow next to me, so now I'm avoiding having another by filling up on grapes and radishes and carrots and even some broccoli. Dipping leafy broccoli results in something that looks like a weird shaving brush...

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My mIRC script is improving as I've been finding better ways to do things. Some on own, some with Yakko's help. He suggested using /who rather than /whois and that helped things quite a lot. Now I have one fairly clean loop instead of having less clean nested loops. The color list is used if not more efficiently, at least less intrusively. There is far less cluttering up of the status window. I still haven't found a way to get mIRC to not announce that the /who is finished for each nick or to not announce the away message of a nick that is away. I could, I suppose do a /who by channel and get only an announcement per channel of being finished instead of per nick, but that seems inefficient as then there'd be /who-ing of some more than once per pass. Oh, and the updating seems faster, even if it perhaps isn't. Considering how much improvement there has been in the past few days, I wonder how much more could be done if I were actually good at this. I'm very much still learning and probably trying to do more advanced things than a beginner ought. Also, I'm realizing just how weird and limiting non stack based, non RPN languages with fixed definitions seem to me.

I'm not sure I can do much more with this, as far as de-cluttering. So tonight I'll probably see about getting a timer set up and letting the thing free run a while. I suppose I could also color the nicks of those idle for a long time, too. Maybe even a different color if not away. Egad, I best be careful I don't end up overdoing the colors. I'm wondering if maybe I'm going about it wrong now, though. Would I be better off just looking at idle time and not caring about away? Could that be done without any clutter? Guess I have something more to look into tonight. After I've used the "finished" script for a night or two, I might see if anyone else wants to try it. Then I'll find out just how good or bad or useful or useless it is.

Comments

[timmowarner.livejournal.com]

I'd want to try it.

I almost never set myself /away. Nor do I check if other people are /away. I do do a nick change when I'm gone though.

Eek, your script will reveal when I'm lying about being away! I take so long to get gone even after I've set my nick. =o)

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I changed it to go by channel. At startup it seems that $ial() doesn't return what it should, but $chan(0) does. Also it is slightly less spammy in the status window this way, though perhaps a bit less efficient.

I tried mIRC 6.03, thinking I might find something useful with changes in idle indications, but I went back to mIRC 6.02. 6.03 doesn't respect browser choices and always brought up IE, so I went back to 6.02 which does what I want and opens an Opera window.

mIRC 6.03 does have something that is almost right, but not quite, for idle time. I'd want the true idle time (like seen in a /whois). What 6.03 does, and you can set it up in the address book, is color nicks on idle time within a channel. So a person would be seen to be idle in one channel, yet be active in another.

I'd prefer to know real activity, not per channel, so I'd have an idea if a /msg would be answered anytime soon.