30/07/2010 - mIRC v7.

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Changes:
1.This is the first stable release of the new Unicode version of mIRC.
The project to convert mIRC to Unicode has taken almost two years of
development and testing and has required tens of thousands of changes
to 150,000+ lines of source code. This has been the most complex and
time-consuming update to mIRC since it was created in 1995, when it
started out as a non-Unicode, 16-bit, Windows 3.1 application.
Many areas of mIRC have had to be updated or re-written, from file
handling to text processing, from display to memory allocation, from
server communications to file transfers.
mIRC should now be faster, more stable, and more compatible with
the latest versions of Windows, and should be able to better handle
the display and input of a variety of languages.
In addition to being converted to Unicode, there are a few other
notable changes:
Improved Windows 7 compatibility
More reliable INI file handling
Faster text display/scrolling
Speech support
Improved interface design for a number of features
Automatic text color correction
Menubar ALT key show/hide feature
Support for italic text and other font styles
Optimized SSL routines
Status window SSL connection icon
IPv6 support
Improved portable support
Persistent channel history
Digitally signed executables
Automatic splitting of long channel/private messages
Full screen display with F11 function key
UPnP support
Many bug fixes
And more
For a full version history of mIRC v7.x development, please see the
list of changes starting with v7.0.
21/07/2010 - mIRC v7.08
Changes:
1.Fixed Unicode surrogates bug.
2.Changed Port dialog bind address editbox to allow entry of longer
addresses.
3.Fixed Unicode and color codes text-wrapping bug.
4.Extended /tokenize to accept Unicode characters as delimiters.
5.Fixed log files corruption bug.
09/07/2010 - mIRC v7.07
Changes:
1.Fixed /showmirc -s bug with maximized windows.
2.Fixed INI routines quote handling bug.
3.Fixed F11 full screen gpf bug when many windows are open.
4.Changed folder selection dialog to allow editbox input.
5.Fixed /timer -h consistency bug.
6.Fixed window vertical scrollbar bug when lines were trimmed due to
exceeding maximum buffer size in some situations.
7.Fixed transfer windows displaying & characters as accelerators.
8.Changed script editor to display message when desktop setting is
changed.
9.Fixed iswm bug where * wildcard was not matching $null.
10.Added $mouse.cx/cy properties to return cursor position relative
to primary monitor.
11.Fixed /bwrite file pointer bug.
12.Fixed $window().dx/dy bug.
28/06/2010 - mIRC v7.06
Changes:
1.Changed "Split long channel/query messages" option to handle action
messages and to ignore other CTCP messages.
2.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8o library.
3.Changed CAP event handling so that scripts can no longer prevent the
CAP reply from being sent.
4.Fixed find text dialog not matching text in wrapped lines.
5.Fixed /timer parameter error handling and display.
6.Fixed display width of some characters when using monospace fonts.
7.Fixed hotlink cursor not being updated in some situations.
8.Added support for full screen display with F11 function key,
/showmirc -f switch and $appstate value "full".
9.Fixed switchbar separator display bug.
10.Fixed main window system menu bug when main menubar is hidden.
11.mIRC now remembers if MDI windows were maximized on exit and opens
them maximized on next startup.
12.Fixed /signal -n recursion gpf bug.
16/06/2010 - mIRC v7.05
Changes:
1.Extended editbox history to 100 lines.
2.Extended /sockread to read more than 4096 bytes at a time.
3.Changed INI routines to enclose data in quotes if it contains any
non-printable characters, ie. less than $chr(32).
4.Fixed INI routines not saving comments within topics correctly.
5.Fixed INI routines bug that would have resulted in a random crash
in some situations.
6.Extended $mask() to handle IPv6 addresses.
7.Fixed $gmt and other time-related identifiers to correctly include
timezone and daylight offsets.
8.Fixed $asctime(zzz) bug.
9.Added /localinfo -p switch, uses UPnP to look up and set your local
info settings.
10.Changed $utfencode()/$utfdecode() to handle the C script/codepage
parameter correctly in text that contains Unicode and UTF-8.
11.Fixed variables not being sorted correctly when sort button is used
in script editor.
12.Added /bwrite -t switch, interprets text value as plain text and
does not evaluate &binbar variables.
28/05/2010 - mIRC v7.04
Changes:
1.Added UPnP support. The Ports dialog allows you to enable UPnP
support for retrieving your external IP address, the identd server,
DCC connections, and the DCC server. The first three options are
enabled by default.
mIRC marks UPnP ports that it opens as "mIRC". It closes UPnP ports
the moment they are no longer needed.
If mIRC is connecting to multiple servers at the same that use both
IPv4 and IPv6, the UPnP port for the identd server will only be able
to handle either IPv4 or IPv6 at any one time, since a UPnP port can
only be bound to one address.
If you make any changes to the UPnP options in the Ports dialog, mIRC
performs a quick check to see if UPnP is available and will warn you
if it is not.
2.Added /socklisten -p switch to enable UPnP support for a listening
socket.
3.Changed hotlink feature to handle more formats.
4.Fixed /clear -g switch bug.
5.Optimized display routine to use bitmap caching more efficiently.
6.Changed the way a server connection is closed after sending /quit to
make disconnection more robust/graceful.
7.Added check for empty servers list. If servers list is empty, mIRC
looks for the "defaults" folder and copies the servers.ini from
there to the data folder.
20/05/2010 - mIRC v7.03
Changes:
1.Changed DCC Send/Get windows to show long progress bar when window
is maximized.
2.Changed DCC Send/Get switchbar buttons to display progress bar in
black during transfer and grey when finished.
3.Fixed /fseek line matching bugs.
4.Optimized BOM-checking in file routines, should have minimal impact
on read/write speed now.
5.Fixed $dns().ip bug when resolving an IP address.
6.Changed Control+N back to shortcut for channel switching.
7.Added "Split long channel/query messages" option to Messages dialog.
If a message is long enough that it might be chopped by the maximum
server line length, it is sent as mutliple lines.
8.Fixed font bug with reading font settings from mirc.ini.
9.Optimized display routine, should be faster in some situations.
10.Changed richedit editbox support back to riched20.dll since it
seems to be faster and more reliable overall.
11.Optimized the way scripts are loaded into script editor editbox.
12.Fixed ini file handling bug when reading section/item/data that
are enclosed in quotes.
13.Fixed hotlink feature not handling single-word hostnames.
14.Changed $utfencode/$utfdecode to return input text if they are
unable to encode/decode the text instead of returning an error.
15.Changed the way the file routines set end-of-file and error, should
behave more like older versions now.
16.Added /raw -n switch to prevent characters in the range 0-255 being
UTF-8 encoded when sent to the server. Also added a $rawbytes
identifier that returns the incoming server message prior to any
parsing/decoding.
01/05/2010 - mIRC v7.02
Changes:
1.Added Unicode/UTF-8 BOM support to file routines. This applies to all
files that are read or written as text, including ini files.
2.Changed DCC Send/Get windows to allow full filename to be viewed when
window is resized.
3.Changed DCC Get to open download file with exclusive write access.
4.Added support for detecting Wine so that mIRC can use alternative
code for features that need it. Around fifteen separate workarounds
were implemented. Features that could not be made to work reliably
(richedit editbox support and playing mp3 and mid files) are now
disabled.
5.Changed mouse wheel scroll method in the script editor editbox to
allow faster/smoother scrolling.
6.Fixed system shell DDE messages bug.
7.Changed font-linking implementation slightly, should be faster and
support more characters.
8.Added support for /dns $server to fill $serverip for SOCKS5 users,
though note that this results in a DNS leak.
9.Fixed treebar background update bug.
10.Optimized display routine, should now be faster when displaying
control codes.
11.Fixed $regml().pos bug.
12.Added Names dialog back to Display options dialog.
13.Fixed /sockudp -k bug.
14.Fixed line colors parsing bug when reloading log files.
15.Fixed query flood check bug.
15/04/2010 - mIRC v7.01
Changes:
1.Changed the way fonts are set for editboxes in windows and in the
script editor. This should resolve issues for users who are seeing
the font change when they enter text.
2.Changed the foregound/background color correction feature so that it
no longer applies if a ^K background color is specified.
3.Fixed /filter gpf bug.
4.Fixed /fopen gpf bug.
5.Changed $input() icons default sound behavior.
6.Fixed text display bug where last character was not entirely visible
in some situations with certain fonts.
7.Changed toolbar and switchbar to not display separators when
background picture is used.
8.Fixed timestamp bug where the timestamp was not being displayed if a
Unicode character was used in the format string.
9.Changed numeric 451 "You have not registered" message for the "CAP"
request to no longer be displayed when connecting to a server.
10.Fixed DDE support. Most applications, such as web browsers, can only
reply to ANSI DDE requests, so mIRC now sends DDE requests in ANSI
as opposed to Unicode. mIRC can now reply to both Unicode and ANSI
DDE requests.
11.Changed identd default behavior when choosing userid from email
address or identd userid field.
12.Fixed $ini()/loadbuf combination bug that was fixing/updating an
incorrectly formatted ini file even though it was only being read
by the script.
13.Changed /filter to allow output to the NUL device.
14.Fixed "End of /MOTD" message not being displayed in some cases.
15.Fixed /speak not working with older voices/engines.
16.Fixed /sockwrite -n and /write -a CRLF bugs.
02/04/2010 - mIRC v7.0
Changes:
1.mIRC is now a Unicode application.
2.mIRC now uses its own custom ini routines to ensure more reliable
ini file handling. They should work almost identically to the
standard Windows ini routines.
3.Changed the way microsoft agent is detected by checking for folder
instead of loading agent to cater for Windows 7 issue.
4.Added a bitmap cache to speed up window text display. Depending on
the font you are using, your cleartype settings, and/or your cpu
speed, you should see a significant increase in display speed of text
in all windows.
5.Fixed script editor not filling as much of the editbox buffer as
it could (up to maximum size of 500k) when reading a file.
6.Updated to PCRE library v8.02 and enabled Unicode/UTF-8 support.
7.Fixed /drawrot gpf bug.
8.Fixed tooltips cpu usage bug under Windows 7.
9.Fixed switchbar/toolbar button sizes under Windows 7.
10.Fixed multi-monitor popup menu bug when second monitor was placed
to the left of the main monitor.
11.Now using gdi+ for picture loading/saving.
12.Fix internal http routines not handling redirects correctly.
13.Updated to SAPI5+ speech and voice commands to make them work with
Windows 7.
14.Added Speech dialog to Sounds dialog. This replaces the Agents dialog
which is no longer supported by Windows 7. If mIRC notices that
Agents are available on your version of Windows, the Agents dialog
option will still be available.
15.Added /speak -spclu [speed] [pitch] [text] command which speaks the
specified text, where the switches are:
-s = speed (0 to 100)
-p = pitch (0 to 100)
-c = clear all queued lines
-l = apply lexicon settings in speech dialog.
-u = apply option settings in speech dialog
You can use $speak(N) to list all lines that are currently queued
for speaking through the /speak command. If N = 0, returns total
number of queued lines.
16.Extended maximum incoming server line length from 600 to 1024
bytes.
17.Fixed default notify sounds not being saved with relative path.
18.Fixed popup loading bug when a file contains empty lines.
19.Fixed on CLOSE event bug with status window requiring * prefix.
20.Extended on CLOSE event to work with channels.
21.Changed on OPEN/CLOSE events to handle parameters like other
similar events. This should not affect existing scripts.
22.Added script editor file menu options "Rename" and "Delete".
23.Added [about] portable=[yes|no] item to mirc.ini that allows you
to enable portable mode more easily on usb drives.
24.Changed mouse wheel routine to correctly handle faster/slower
scrolling.
25.Added CAP LS protocol support. mIRC now sends "CAP LS" as the first
line when connecting to a server before sending NICK/USER to logon.
Currently enables "multi-prefix" and "packet-size=1024" if they are
 available.
26.Fixed listbox item height in Control/Color/Highlight dialogs.
27.Fixed text display being clipped incorrectly when using certain
fonts.
28.The Channels List window now updates the horizontal scrollbar
on-the-fly to avoid the display freeze after listing a large number
of channels.
29.Fixed some controls not being disabled in Lock dialog when lock is
enabled.
30.When clicking reset button in Colors dialog, colors are now reset
to the most recent active settings for that theme.
31.mIRC now skips sending "mode +i" on connect if it has already been
set automatically by the server.
32.Changed the design of some of the dialogs in the Options dialog,
the DCC Send/Get dialogs, and others.
33.mIRC no longer requires Full Name and Email Address to be filled
in the connect dialog and sends default values if left empty.
34.On connecting to a server, if both nick and alternative are in use
mIRC appends a random number to your nickname and tries again.
35.Changed /debug windows to no longer interpret colors. They now
display control codes as plain text.
36.Changed USER/NICK logon method to comply with RFC2812.
37.Changed switchbar DCC Send/Get button progress bar, now displays a
small bar under the text.
38.Optimized Unicode font-linking routines.
39.Now using Visual Studio 2008 to compile mIRC.
40.Added WM_PRINTCLIENT support to a number of controls including the
toolbar, switchbar, and treebar.
41.Renamed "download" folder to "downloads" in line with other folders.
42.Fixed /debug windows log menu not being set correctly.
43.Fixed mIRC main window system menu not being set correctly when
the menbuar is disabled.
44.Renamed "Firewall" dialog "Proxy". Replaced /firewall command with
/proxy although /firewall is still supported.
45.mIRC now disables the proxy if it is enabled in the proxy dialog
but no address is provided and a SOCKS_HOST environment variable
does not exist.
46.Added menbuar auto-show/hide feature that displays the menubar
when you press the ALT key and hides it afterwards.
47.Keyboard focus now automatically switches to the treebar if all
other windows are minimized.
48.Fixed PCRE gpf bug when expression results in heavy recursion.
49.Changed switchbar to display transparent buttons when a background
picture is selected.
50.Added support for all available font styles, such as italic and
semi-bold, in font dialog.
51.Added support for Control+I key combination to make italic text
using control code 29.
52.Added support for DLLs that use Unicode functions. By default mIRC
assumes that DLL functions are ANSI for backwards compatibility.
However a DLL can enable Unicode support by setting mUnicode to
TRUE in the LOADINFO structure:
typedef struct {
DWORD mVersion;
HWND mHwnd;
BOOL mKeep;
BOOL mUnicode;
} LOADINFO;
53.Added SendMessage WM_MEVALUATE/WM_MCOMMAND support for Unicode.
By default mIRC assumes that mapped file data is ANSI for backwards
compatibility. However an application can "or" the value 8 in the
cMethod parameter to specify Unicode data.
54.Changed display behavior for a number of dialogs, such as the DCC
Send/Get dialogs, so that buttons are now disabled for a short time
when the dialogs are displayed to prevent accidental typing. If the
user is typing the buttons remain disabled until the user stops.
Added a 'b' switch to $input() and an "option disable" property to
custom dialogs that enables this behavior.
55.Fixed treebar display bug when displaying DCC window names.
56.Changed script editor Order dialog to automatically select the
active script in the listbox on opening.
57.Updated editbox in all windows and script editor to use richedit 4.1
msftedit.dll for improved Unicode support. If not available reverts
to riched20.dll.
58.Changed line numbering method in script editor, uses more reliable
method that is independent of editbox.
59.Changed status window icon to display a yellow lock when on a secure
connection using SSL.
60.Fixed Control+K color dialog centering bug.
61.Changed servers list sorting method so that the networks listed in
the [networks] section of servers.ini are now placed at the top.
62.Changed DCC Send/Get transfer windows default font, now uses the
system dialog font. Also switched to appropriate system font for
measurements in features such as $input() and popup menus.
63.Changed design of DCC Send/Get transfer windows, interface is now
clearer and the display updates once a second.
64.Changed flood protection to begin working only after receiving the
first numeric to prevent logon issues in some situations.
65.Changed design of the File Type warning dialog, now clearer and also
shows the file extension that was ignored.
66.Optimized the way line indentation works, such as for /echo -iN,
and other displayed lines.
67.Improved tab and indent spacing measurement method for both fixed
and non-fixed width fonts.
68.Improved text-wrapping at whole word boundaries, and now wraps at
both spaces and commas.
69.Numeric 422 "MOTD file is missing" message is no longer displayed
when first connecting to a server.
70.Fixed proxy errors not being displayed correctly in some situations.
71.Added a bind listbox to the Connect/Options/Ports dialog that lists
all active networks interfaces for easy selection. It still allows
you to enter an IP address as well.
72.Updated /dns command, now multi-threaded, resolves concurrently,
and can return both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. By default, /dns only
returns IPv4. You can use the switches -46 to return a combination
of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
73.Added support for IPv6 connections. By default, mIRC will always use
IPv4, so IPv6 support must be explicitly enabled using one of these
methods:
1) Enable IPv6 support in the Connect/Options/Ports dialog. This
allows mixed IPv4 and IPv6 connections, with IPv6 taking priority
in DNS resolution. This means that if you try to connect to a server
that has both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, mIRC will try IPv6 first.
2) The bind option in the Connect/Options/Ports dialog. If you
 specify an IPv4 or IPv6 adapter/address, DNS resolution and all
connections will be made based on the adapter/address type. If you
explicitly specify an IP address for a connection, such as a /server
or DCC connection, it overrides this setting.
3) The /server command with switches -46 to force DNS resolution
to return either IPv4, IPv6, or both. If you specify an IP address,
it overrides the switches. The server window will use the requested
DNS method for all subsequent connections until you change it with
the /server command.
Note: in order to use IPv6, both your version of Windows and your
Internet connection must support IPv6.
74.Added $iptype(text) identifier, returns "ipv4" or "ipv6" if text is
is a valid IP address format. With IPv6 addresses, the properties
.compress and .expand can be used.
75.Added cue text (optional) to Connect dialog for user name and email
address.
76.Extended $portfree(port,ip) so that you can specify an ip address.
If not specified, all active interfaces are checked as before. An
adapter name can also be used instead of an ip address.
77.Added $bindip(N|ip) identifier. If N is specified, lists active
network adapters with properties .name, .ip, .loopback. If an ip
address is specified, returns best adapter for connecting to that
ip address.
78.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8n library.
79.Updated installer to offer a portable install option that can be
used to run mIRC on a USB flash drive.
80.Added support for whois numeric 729.
81.Added "Invalid certificate" disconnect message in the event of an
SSL connection failing due to an invalid certificate. If there is a
DNS pool, mIRC will now continue to retry the connection.
82.Changed /localinfo to report an error if you try to use an invalid
switch. Also fixed /localinfo not setting/saving the local info
results correctly across server windows.
83.Fixed hotlink shift-key display bug.
84.Fixed logfile bug when window is switched between mdi/desktop.
85.Added $file().sig property, checks digital signature of a file.
86.Added check for foreground/background colors in control codes in
text. If they are the same, the foreground color is changed to
ensure the text is visible.
87.Changed color dialog behavior: if you delete all schemes, the
default schemes are added back to the list.
88.Changed position of history menu in file and favorites menus.
89.Added /close -t switch, closes all status windows. If used with -i
switch, closes only if not connected/connecting to a server.
90.Channels history is now saved across sessions to the [chanhist]
section in mirc.ini.
91.Fixed tips display bug that caused tip width to be smaller than
necessary, shortening the title text.
92.Fixed SSL warning dialog bug, was not showing the actual error
message in some cases when a certificate error was detected.
93.Fixed /var gpf bug.
17/10/2008 - mIRC v6.35
Changes:
1.Fixed nickname bug where very long nicknames (hundreds of characters
in length) sent by the server would cause mIRC to crash.
2.Updated to PCRE v7.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8i libraries.
3.Added script editor option to disable line numbers.
4.Fixed /toolbar bug where setting a bitmap for a default button was
not working correctly.
5.Added custom dialog support for "rich" editbox property that allows
an arbitrary "limit" on the amount of text.
6.Fixed window listbox display bug when moving the horizontal scrollbar
all the way to the right.
08/08/2008 - mIRC v6.34
Changes:
1.Fixed if/while bracket priority bug which affected the parsing of
if/while statements.
2.Fixed text display bug where the last character in a line was being
chopped off.
3.Changed the fast update display method.
4.Fixed tips display bug.
5.Fixed copy messages to query bug.
6.Fixed /drawrot rounding error bug.
7.Fixed treebar/switchbar server sorting display bug.
18/07/2008 - mIRC v6.33
Changes:
1.Fixed $istok() not returning error if too many parameters supplied.
2.Fixed /scon returning wrong error message.
3.Fixed window positions not being saved correctly for certain types
of windows.
4.Fixed tab completion issue with long text/identifier values.
5.Fixed Channel Central dialog excepts/invites bug, now looks for +eI
modes in the CHANMODES token as well as EXCEPTS and INVEX tokens.
6.Fixed reload logs feature displaying session information twice on
reloading a log file.
7.Fixed $calc() returning +/-0 in some situations.
8.Improved handling of hotlinks enclosed in brackets.
9.Fixed server ports bug when using toolbar connect button.
10.Fixed color display bug in tips title/message text.
11.Fixed text display bug due to incorrect text width measurement with
some fonts/characters, now using new method to measure text width.
12.Changed $window().sbstate/tbstate to return button status even if
the corresponding bar is hidden.
13.Fixed $hfind/$regml regex bug.
14.Fixed channels list window focus bug when getting list.
15.Fixed script editor editbox warning to take account of long wrapped
lines.
16.Fixed window focusing bug in certain situations.
17.Fixed /toolbar load/save bug with @window parameters.
18.Fixed /did -d CRLF bug.
19.Fixed picture @window popup menu bug under Vista.
20.Added support for the transfer of files larger than four gigabytes.
This required the following extension to the DCC transfer protocol:
If mIRC sees that it is sending or receiving a file with a size
larger than a 32bit value, it sends and expects to receive 64bit
acks. In all other respects, the protocol is unchanged. Note that
all previous versions of mIRC are unable to either send or receive
such large files.
21.Changed file transfer CPS calculation method, now reflects the real
average CPS over the last few seconds.
22.Improved the way the "Total Max Cps" feature throttles transfer
 speeds.
23.Increased the maximum allowed DCC Send packet size. This may or may
not improve speed depending on your connection type.
24.Fixed DCC Send/Get bug where files of zero bytes in size could not
be transfered.
25.Changed DCC Send so that it now always sends packets ahead of acks.
This means that even if it receives no acks at all, mIRC will still
transfer the file. If "Fast Send" is enabled, mIRC will attempt to
send packets as fast as it can.
26.Fixed regex identifiers hiding output of called identifiers by
default - they now require . prefix in calling alias.
27.Fixed /server switches not being remembered on an automatic retry
connection attempt after a disconnection.
28.Fixed server connection not remembering SSL status if you disconnect
and then reconnect to a server.
29.Fixed switchbar display button-sorting display bug.
30.Added $window().tbtext for window treebar text.
31.Added /editbox -vqN switches, where -v prevents the editbox contents
from being changed and -qN enables/disables/toggles second editbox.
32.Added /var -g switch, sets global variable values.
33.Added $timer().pause property.
34.Added $input() 'm' switch which allows you to include multiple "text"
parameters and to display them in a combobox. The first text item is
the default item, the rest are the items in the list.
35.Fixed /log on command bug not using logs folder.
36.Optimized text mark/copy routine.
37.Added Track Urls warning when feature is enabled via system menu.
38.Changed Unicode display method slightly - mIRC now preloads the cache
with the default system Unicode font and various other Unicode fonts
if they are found on your system.
39.Fixed if/while bracket parser bug.
40.Added $chan/query/send/get/chat .idle properties.
41.Added editbox "automatic" lines feature to display/options dialog
that dynamically changes the size of the primary editbox to show
all of your typed text, up to half the size of the window.
42.Extended /window -eN switch where 0 = single, 1 = multi, 2 = auto,
and 3 = default.
43.Changed Control+Home/End key behavior so that they move the cursor
if you are editing text in a multi-line editbox, otherwise they
scroll the display buffer.
44.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8h library.
45.Changed Enter key behavior in multi/auto editbox so that it sends
a line when pressed in the middle of a line. To insert a line you
can use the Alt+Enter key combination.
46.Changed Status Window editbox to reflect single/multi/auto editbox
settings.
47.Fixed UTF-8 text-wrapping display bug.
48.Fixed SSL certificate caching bug when maximum cache size exceeded.
21/05/2008 - mIRC v6.32
Changes:
1.Fixed /did -o CRLF bug.
2.Fixed /log -f not being able to handle quotes.
3.Fixed /toolbar default icons bug with toolbar background pictures.
4.Fixed notify icon white pixels bug with a black background in the
treebar.
5.Fixed script editor buttons not displaying icons when running under
Windows Vista Classic Theme.
6.Fixed listbox height in SSL dialog.
7.Fixed script initialization warning bug.
8.Changed /drawpic bitmap allocation method to speed up @window
displays.
9.Fixed $tip help file bug.
10.Fixed /toolbar not being compatible with toolbar buttons bitmap.
11.Updated to PNG 1.2.29, PCRE v7.7, and OpenSSL 0.9.8g libraries.
12.Standardized and extended string lengths throughout mIRC to allow
the use of longer variables, channel and nick names, and other
items.
13.Optimized $strip() control codes routine, used through-out mIRC.
14.Added "Check for Updates" item to Help menu. mIRC also checks for
updates once a day on startup. This can be turned off in the updates
dialog.
15.mIRC now displays the wait cursor when dialogs are opened and closed
as a busy indicator, mainly for when mIRC is run from a USB drive.
16.Fixed /drawrot -b background color bug.
17.Fixed text display moving backwards bug with certain fonts.
18.Fixed mouse wheel handling to properly process slow/fast scrolling
with high resolution mice.
19.Fixed status window log menu bug on a clean install.
20.Fixed blank lines in window listboxes not being displayed correctly.
21.Added /set -k switch, keeps current -uN setting for a variable. Also
added $var().secs, returns unset time.
22.Fixed handling of negative range values in token identifiers.
23.Added $reptok() and $remtok() support for N = 0 to apply to all
matching items.
24.Fixed $* bug when used with $() identifier.
25.Fixed script editor editbox responding to control+mouse wheel to
change font size, can only change through font dialog.
26.Fixed /tips setting not being remembered on a restart.
27.Fixed listbox windows display bug when using double-space/paragraph
spacing.
28.Fixed double-space/paragraph settings not being set correctly when
a window is first opened.
29.Fixed /drawcopy -t bug.
30.Fixed $mp3() handling of Unicode tags.
31.Added support for network-specific window position saving.
32.Changed ini update routine, now only writes an item to the file if
it is in fact different in the file. This minimizes file updates.
Added mainly for USB drive users.
33.Changed reload log feature to only reload a maximum of 500 lines.
34.Changed window buffer routine so that it removes whole lines from
the top of the buffer instead of partial lines.
35.Fixed script editor shortcuts not working when other dialogs open.
36.Fixed MDI flickering bug when "Move status window to top" option
is enabled in Window Order dialog.
37.Fixed treebar focus bug when selecting item in treebar while mIRC
is not active application.
38.Fixed $mp3() handling of malformed mp3 headers.
39.Fixed multi-byte text-wrapping display bug.
40.Fixed minor bug in UTF-8 selective encoding routine.
41.Changed Channel Central design slightly. Checkboxes are disabled
if you are not an op and the Excepts and Invites buttons are
disabled if numeric 005 does not list EXCEPTS and INVEX tokens.
42.The multibyte editbox is now enabled by default for new installs.
43.Changed tab completion so that it leaves the original text intact
if it evaluates to $null.
44.Fixed /drawcopy not reporting an error in some situations.
45.Fixed MDI window background display bug.
46.Added /dialog -g <name> <newname> to change dialog name.
47.Added /menubar /toolbar /switchbar /treebar [on | off] commands
and $menubar, $toolbar, $switchbar, $treebar identifiers. Also
added $compact identifier to indicate normal/compact mode.
48.Fixed window scrollbar bug with large numbers of lines.
49.Fixed script editor toolbar button not reflecting on/off settings
for events in some situations.
50.Fixed text in custom @windows being chopped at tab stops.
51.Added /window -M switch, chops text at tab stops.
52.Fixed random delay auto-op/voice bugs.
01/11/2007 - mIRC v6.31
Changes:
1.Fixed tooltips bug in toolbar.
2.Fixed /background window name bug.
3.Fixed remote.ini scripts folder bug.
4.Fixed dns pool message bug during connect retry.
5.Fixed notify window taking focus every time you connect to a
server. The notify window also no longer automatically closes
when you disconnect from all servers.
6.Fixed tips control codes bug.
7.Fixed if/elseif error display bug.
8.Fixed /window -dh not hiding desktop window.
9.Changed $tip() $null parameters so that they are now optional.
10.Fixed script editor Windows taskbar display bug.
11.Fixed /dll crash bug with self-calling dlls.
12.Fixed on START event not being triggered before all other events
on startup for loaded scripts.
13.Fixed while loop break/continue bugs.
14.Fixed /writeini error handling bug.
15.Fixed ial not being updated by protect/ignore/etc. commands.
16.Added @wid support to /setlayer.
17.Added /tips [on|off] and $tips identifier.
18.Added "Hide tips when locked" option to lock dialog.
19.Fixed editbox/listbox focus bug when switching windows.
20.Fixed $inellipse() bug by enabling floating point consistency
option in compiler.
21.Fixed /hinc bug.
22.Fixed -nouninst backward compatibility bug.
23.Fixed flickering in channel nickname, channels list, and all
other window listboxes.
24.Changed script editor interface slightly, now cleaner and easier
to read. Added Check Bracket/Sort Variables items to Edit menu,
line numbers to margin, and enter/home key indentation support.
No longer flickers when resized.
25.Updated to PNG 1.2.22 and PCRE v7.4 libraries.
26.Fixed double-click on treebar notify nicks bug, now triggers
correct Clicks dialog notify list alias.
27.Fixed on ^filesent/rcvd not /halting text bug.
28.Fixed treebar notify nicks menu not having $1 set as nick.
29.Fixed installer bug with mIRC/help file not being launched on
install completion.
30.Fixed Unicode encoding bug when pasting large amounts of text.
31.Fixed Unicode not being copied to clipboard correctly from a
@window with no editbox.
32.Changed right-click behavior in custom dialog listboxes to allow
selecting an item without checking its radio/check box.
33.The default text for /list numerics 321 and 323 can now be halted.
34.Added SSL option to automatically accept invalid certificates.
35.Fixed @window tabs display bug.
36.Tips now shade each alternate message that is added to an existing
tip to make it easier to distinguish individual messages.
37.When bars are locked the drag bars are now hidden from view.
38.Added /abook -h switch to open highlight dialog.
39.Fixed background picture display bug when loading large images.
40.Fixed line width/height measurement bug in @windows, now the same
as non-@windows.
41.Fixed /splay and /sound error display bug.
42.Fixed saving tray/maximized window state bug.
43.Fixed /drawtext clipping bug when using tabs.
44.Fixed tray icon click multi-monitor bug.
45.Fixed reload log files bug when lock log files option is enabled.
46.Fixed Editor "Monitor File Changes" memory bug.
47.Changed behavior of "Hide minimized desktop windows" option so
that query, message, and chat windows remain visible when they are
first opened minimized on the desktop.
48.Fixed /hinc and /hdec maximum value bug.
49.Fixed clipboard handling bug.
50.Fixed $longfn() routine not appending / slash to the result when
it is a directory.
51.Updated the mIRC icon and over seventy other icons in the toolbar,
switchbar, tray, and window icons.
52.Fixed treebar focus bug when selecting item in treebar while mIRC
is not active application.
53.Fixed some settings in editor dialog not being remembered if it
was closed using the cancel button.
54.Fixed favorites dialog gpf bug when editing folder name.
16/08/2007 - mIRC v6.3
Changes:
1.Fixed /var bug when parsing multiple $identifiers() on one line.
2.Fixed /auser bug halting script if user already existed.
3.Fixed /toolbar -fl bug when an item in toolbar.ini contained a
popup @menu.
4.Fixed custom DLL delay-unload feature so that it is only applied
when mIRC exits. In other cases, the DLL is unloaded immediately.
5.Fixed mIRC always forcing an SSL +port if the last connection was
an SSL +port.
6.Fixed popup menu positioning bug when pressing spacebar to display
popup close to edge of Windows desktop.
7.Fixed $inroundrect() and $inellipse() bug.
8.When connecting to a round robin dns pool ip address the original
connect address is now remembered and the connect message now has
"dns pool" appended to it.
9.Fixed round robin dns pool ip address bug with SSL connections not
remembering original host address during verification.
10.Fixed /queryrn bug not renaming same name with different case.
11.Fixed right-click popup menu selections not working correctly
under Vista in some cases.
12.Fixed Servers List popup menu not displaying items correctly.
13.Fixed firewall password corruption bug.
14.Fixed script editor minimize/restore bug.
15.Fixed $sin/$cos/etc. rounding errors.
16.Fixed ? marked urls being deleted incorrectly while mIRC was
running.
17.Fixed color codes not being processed properly in wrapped lines
in some situations.
18.Fixed URL links not being opened with default browser under Vista.
19.The -r command line switch behavior has been changed so that if
 no path is specified after -r, mIRC will use the executable path.
20.For Vista compatibility, new installations of mIRC now save all
settings in the User's "Application Data\mIRC" folder by default.
However, if the installer or mIRC find mirc.ini in the same folder
as mirc.exe they will use the mirc.exe folder for all settings.
Users installing over an old version of mIRC should therefore see
no change in behavior.
The installer is now also aware of administrator and standard user
accounts and installs mIRC accordingly.
21.Fixed command prefix /!. parsing inconsistencies across routines.
22.Fixed "// echo hello" being parsed as "//echo hello". The parser
now halts parsing of empty // commands.
23.Fixed reload logs bug, was loading logs in wrong order.
24.Fixed on KICK event clearing $chan/$nick too early when you are
kicked from a channel.
25.Fixed /drawtext color parsing bug in picture @windows.
26.Fixed /toolbar -fs bug, icon size was being saved incorrectly.
27.Fixed servers dialog intermittent gpf bug when sorting servers.
28.Fixed /dcc send -l and -m parsing bugs.
29.Fixed irc:// links not working under Vista.
30.Changed registry handling to ensure that mIRC works the same way
whether run under administrator or standard user accounts.
mIRC no longer updates the Uninstall section of the registry to
point to the currently running mIRC, the Uninstall section is
now only set by the installer. Removed -nouninst command line
switch since this is no longer applicable.
Also irc:// links are now only added to the Current User registry,
not the local machine registry and this is only done when mIRC
is run, not by the installer.
The -service command line switch has been removed from the help
file though it is still supported under 95/98/ME.
31.mIRC no longer uses an internal uninstaller, instead the install
program now places an uninstall.exe in the mIRC folder.
32.Fixed dialog table definition not being able to call local aliases
if dialog was opened from the command line.
33.Extended custom dialog "tab id" parameter to allow id to be an
alias/identifier.
34.Fixed comments not being parsed correctly in the users list.
35.Fixed mouse cursor display bug during mark/copy.
36.Added internal U3 support to mIRC. mIRC looks for these command
line parameters -appStart, -appStop, and -hostCleanUp, and looks
for U3_HOST_EXEC_PATH and U3_APP_DATA_PATH environment variables.
37.Fixed ini storage bug when using -portable switch.
38.Changed -portable command line switch behavior. Now makes mIRC
both 1) avoid use of the registry and 2) use the executable folder
as the mirc.ini folder.
39.Fixed /if parser not reporting invalid operator for => and =<,
and added not support for !> !<= etc.
40.Fixed window display bug when rejoining an already joined channel.
41.Fixed /writeini and /remini not reporting an error if they were
unable to write to the file.
42.Added support for positioning Treebar at top/bottom of mIRC window.
43.Added support for network specific notify nicks. If no network
 is specified, nick is used on all networks. Extended command to
/notify -n <nick> [network] [note], where -n indicates network
has been specified. Also added $notify().network.
44.Changed "Received Files" explorer display to show folders pane.
45.Notify/URLs list windows are now displayed in both the treebar
and the switchbar.
46.Changed the way the notify list window is displayed on connect.
47.Added -noreg command line switch to make mIRC avoid use of the
registry (to make up for old -portable behavior).
48.Fixed $input dialog (and other windows) not being centered on
desktop correctly if main mIRC window was minimized.
49.Added support for numeric 005 TARGMAX and MAXTARGETS tokens
when sending privmsgs and notices in /amsg, /ame, /qme, /qmsg,
/omsg, and /onotice.
50.Fixed notify list routine that was not correctly optimized, may
have led to high cpu usage/interface lag for some users.
51.Fixed various dialogs opening centered in main window when opened
with keyboard shortcuts, eg. Alt+O, Alt+B, etc.
52.Added support for notify list display in treebar, option enabled
via treebar popup menu.
53.Added treebar menu option to use System menus or Window menus for
right-clicked treebar items. System menus are the default. Toggle
by holding shift key while right-clicking.
54.Added $menutype and $menucontext to supplement $menu. They are
available during popup menu creation and indicate the menu type
and context of the menu being created.
55.Changed left-click method on treebar items, it takes one click to
open and close windows now.
56.Fixed issues with /mkdir and $isdir(). $isdir() will now only
accept folder names, whereas previously it was accepting filenames
as well.
57.Changed status window icon so that you can now tell when it is
connected, connecting, logging on, or disconnecting.
58.Alt+LeftClick no longer changes the status window icon, instead
it now adds a down arrow to the button. When clicked it displays
a popup menu of hidden windows.
59.The status window title in switchbar/treebar now always shows the
network/server name, even when not connected.
60.Added Buffer menu to custom @window system menu.
61.Changed the way files are renamed/copied/deleted to resolve file
issues experienced by some users.
62.Fixed favorites menu recent channels history bug.
63.Changed the way $active works, was not consistent before.
64.Changed on ACTIVE so that it always triggers when a window gets
the focus, was not triggering in all situations before.
65.Fixed /unload not halting script on error.
66.Added treebar support for spacebar to pop up menu for selected
item.
67.Fixed $wrap() bug not handling bold control codes across multiple
lines correctly.
68.If an incoming notice is displayed in more than one window eg. in
common channels or the active window, windows are now highlighted
only if necessary.
69.Added /cnick -f switch that forces the addition of a new entry to
the list instead of updating an existing nick.
70.Fixed relative path bug when handling short paths.
71.Improved error handling in /load command.
72.Added Notify and Urls List items to windows order dialog, affects
position of these items in treebar.
73.Added support for on ^TABCOMP, triggers before a $id or %var is
 evaluated.
74.Changed $fserv() to $fserve(), old identifier still supported but
no longer documented.
75.Fixed MDI background display flickering bug.
76.The /setlayer command can now set the transparency of the main
mIRC window.
77.When in the script editor mIRC no longer considers itself the
active application, this allows flash/beep/etc. events to trigger.
78.All buttons that select/display files/folders now display the whole
file/path with ellipsis if necessary.
79.Fixed nick color list freeze issue, instead of updating all nicks
immediately when colors change, now only updates them when they
are visible.
80.Moved highlight dialog to address book and added regex support.
81.Fixed options dialog memory leak.
82.Fixed "Move status window..." bug in Group dialog.
83.Fixed wildcard matching bug.
84.Added support for tips, text balloons that pop up near the Windows
tray to notify you of various events such as incoming messages or
users in your notify list coming on or leaving IRC.
Tips only appear when mIRC is not the active application and are
hidden the moment mIRC becomes active.
Tips can be configured in the Options/Windows/Options dialog.
The Highlight dialog in the Address Book also supports tips for
matched items.
Tips can also be scripted using the $tip() identifier:
$tip(name,title,text,delay,iconfn,iconpos,alias,wid)
Returns Nth position of tip if successful, zero if not.
name - name of the tip
title - title
text - text
delay - from 3 to 60 seconds
iconfn - icon filename
iconpos - icon position in filename
alias - alias to perform when tip is double-clicked
wid - id of window to which tip belongs
name, title, text are required.
delay, iconfn, iconpos, alias, and wid can be $null.
$tip(name/N) can be used to list existing tips.
Notes:
Right-click in a tip pauses the time-out for all tips.
Shift+Left-click in a tip closes that tip.
Double-click in a tip triggers the alias if one is defined,
or opens the associated window if not.
The tip automatically fits the text into it and will at most
widen to quarter of your screen width.
 New tips are queued until older tips time-out. Tips time-out
at a slower rate if they are not at the head of the queue.
If no wid is specified, the tip belongs to the status window
of the currently active connection.
A tip is closed if the window it belongs to is made active
or is closed, or if mIRC is made active and the tip belongs
to an MDI window.
85.Fixed /showmirc -nt bug minimizing mIRC but not activating
the next application window.
86.Fixed $mp3() not handling Unicode tags correctly.
87.Added $fullscreen identifier, returns 1 if an application is
running in full screen mode, 0 if not. This applies to game and
non-game applications.
88.Fixed agent speaking bug.
89.Extended /echo -iN to allow maximum N of 256.
90.By popular request, changed logging method back to old method, no
longer uses name.N.log filename format.
91.For new installs the "download" folder is now named "downloads"
and a "scripts" folder is created by default.
92.Added $ebeeps identifier, returns sounds enabled/disabled state.
93.Updated tab display routines to use XP/Vista themes.
94.Fixed menubar spaces bug, all scripts are now aligned on load
using same align routine as editor.
95.Removed support for mirc.hlp file on F1 key, only mirc.chm is
used now.
96.Fixed editor "monitor file changes" bug with .ini files.
97.When run under Vista mIRC now checks for a corresponding virtual
store folder at startup. Vista creates virtual store folders for
older non-Vista compatible applications, such as older versions
of mIRC. If mIRC finds such a folder, it displays a dialog box
allowing you to retrieve your old mIRC files and settings.
98.Added $sha1(text|&binvar|filename,[N]) identifier, where N = 0
for plain text (default), 1 for &binvar, 2 for filename.
99.Updated to PNG 1.2.18 and PCRE v7.2 libraries and to OpenSSL
0.9.8e support files.
100.The about dialog now displays a second page that loads from the
mIRC website. No information is sent to the server.
101.Fixed custom dialog icon definitions not setting %var values
correctly on exit.
102.Changed compiler optimization settings resulting in slightly
larger executable.
103.Added Mode menu item to the View menu in the menubar that allows
you to switch between Normal and Compact modes. Compact mode
makes mIRC behave like a messenger with the treebar filling the
main window, all windows opening on the desktop, and so on.
-
The full versions.txt file has become too large to include in the
distribution, so only the version information for the last version
or so is being included from now on. You can still download the full
versions.txt file from the mIRC website.
-
28/02/95 - mIRC v2.1a
First public release.