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Cessle
18th February 2006, 00:46
Fixes, improvements and new features.

Khaled added support for displaying UTF-8 text as unicode to mIRC. This
works in status, channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname
listboxes, window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips. The display of UTF-8
can be enabled by default for all windows in the Options/IRC/Messages
dialog, or individually for any window you like via the Fonts dialog. Use
the /font command to open the Fonts dialog. Make sure you select a font that
contains the characters or script (hebrew, arabic, greek, cyrillic,...) you
want to see!

The Fonts dialog also has an "Encode" option that encodes outgoing text in
UTF-8 based on the script/codepage selected for that window. The Encode
feature is selective, ie. it only encodes the parts of an outgoing message
that are not already in UTF-8 format. It also takes into account if the IRC
server is fully UTF-8 enabled or not.

Various other changes:
- mIRC now has a 'check for timed out connections' option in connect/options
dialog. When this is set mIRC pings the server every so often if it hasn't
heard form the server for a while to test your connection.
- Support for initiating passive dcc send/chat connections has been added.
- Changing the default font for a window type now affects all open windows
of the same type immediately.
- Most file dialogs are now resizable.
- You can disable the $decode identifier (and various other "dangerous"
commands) in the Lock options dialog. (The $decode is of course disabled
by default.)
- Lots of SSL things have improved and mIRC now also supports SSL
connections for sockets

This new version has extended support for MP3 id3v2 tags, better invite and
except lists, and heaps of other little thingies and identifiers like
$findfilen/$finddirn, $qt(text)/$noqt(text), $locked and $mouse.key
improvements. Of course also some UTF-8 related idfentifiers like
$utfencode(), $utfdecode() and $isutf() have been added.

In total the versions.txt mentions over 160 changes. Some changes are
obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them
and see how they work. May we invite you to the Message Board on the website
with all questions you might have? The board offers great help with
everything related to mIRC!

Download Click Here: (http://www.mirc.com/get.html)

going to install it tonight but run it tomorw

SK
18th February 2006, 00:54
Wow about time, only been over a year since the last release.

maDDin
18th February 2006, 01:00
Can u install it over the old version so u dont have to set up mirc again?

SK
18th February 2006, 01:10
Yup

Cessle
18th February 2006, 01:12
finally u hav fixed the thread sk and yes maddin just install it over ur current one and just ask it to keep curent setting ect, but i t brakes no name script 4 and so i think u hav to reinstsall it :( which is a shame will investigfate in the mornign

just found this:

A new version of mIRC has been released today!

NoNameScript 4.01 is (not fully - see edit below) compatible with the new mIRC (http://www.mirc.co.uk/) 6.17 (http://www.mirc.co.uk/), so you can update your current installation. Simply point the mIRC installer to your NoNameScript directory. You have to take care of two things when updating:

Make sure you enable "Keep current mIRC settings" in the mIRC setup.
You might get a lot of $decode() errors on the first start. You therefore need to enable support for $decode() in the mIRC options. This option is located in ALT+O, Other, Lock. Simply uncheck the "Decode" checkbox and restart the script.After this, everything should work fine.
The next version, 4.02, which does not have a release date yet, will take care of these settings by itself.

Edit: Ok, there are actually some smaller issues when using NoNameScript 4.01 with mIRC 6.17, such as the theme preview and logging timestamps being messed up. Those issues will be resolved with version 4.02 of the script, so I recommend you to wait until it is released.