Pirch98 Helpful Hints

How to copy and paste an alias

1. Copy the line(s) that you want to display as your new alias by holding down
the left mouse key and dragging to the end of the line. The highlight disappears,
but it is still in memory.
2. Click on the button at the top of the screen.
3. Click on the 'add' button. (5th icon from the left) A small window will appear.

4. Type in a name for your new alias.
5. Click 'OK'.
6. Place the pointer in the large 'command definition' panel, which is the panel on the right.
7. Right click the mouse...a small menu will appear. (For some users
Cntrl key and V held together will paste)
8. Left click on 'paste', & the line(s) you copied should appear.
9. If no editing is required, click on 'SAVE' which is the big check mark upper left.
10. If there is a nick in the alias, change it to $snick
11. Hint..ALWAYS SAVE using the largecheck mark upper left when making any changes to your aliases file.
12. To execute your alias, type /aliasname (the name of your alias)
where you type your text.

How to copy and paste popups

1. Copy the line(s) that you want to display as your new popup by holding down
the left mouse key and dragging to the end of the line. The highlight disappears,
but it is still in memory.
2. Click on thebutton at the top of the screen.
3. Most of your popups you will want to place in the Channels[Main Pane] and/or Channels[Names List]

4. Click on the tab where you want your popup to be then right click in the lower window and click on paste.
5. Once pasted, you have to name it by typing a name at the beginning of the line followed by a colon :
6. If there is a nick in the popup, change the nick to $$1
7. If no more editing is required click the large check mark upper left to save.
8. To display a popup, right click in the main window of the channel you are in and right click. You will see a window popup with your popup listed at the bottom. If there is a nick in it, highlight the nick from the names list first then in the main chat window, right click then left click on the popup you want to display.
9. If your popup is in Channels[Names List] Right click on a nick from the names list in the channel, and without moving your mouse, left click on the popup you want to display.
10. Hint..ALWAYS SAVE using the largecheck mark upper left when making any changes to your popup files.

Simple Text Colors for Pirch98 Users:

To produce text colors you need to do the following:
1.) Hold down the CTRL key and at the same time hit the K key on your keyboard
2.) A box  will appear
3.) After the  type a number followed by text.....this will produce a color text
4 will show as red
4.) The numbers for pIRCh colors are:

For background colors you type CtrlK followed by the text color, then a comma, and background color
Example: 11,1

The difference between popups & aliases is the way they are named and displayed.
A popup is named with a name followed by a colon, immediately followed by what
you have pasted to it.
To display the popup, you right click the mouse and it will appear at the bottom of the
list in the window that shows up.
If there is a name in it, be sure to use the variable $$1 Then highlight a name from the list
before displaying it.
For aliases you name it in a different way. You will see a window split into two.
The name of the alias will be in the left, and the alias you paste will be in the right.
For a name in the alias, be sure it is the variable $snick
To display the alias, you have to type the name you gave it preceded by the / after you
have highlighted a name from the names list.
Apart from all that, there is no difference. *wink*

Download & Install
Logging On
Setting prefs Page One
Setting Prefs Page Two
How to group popups
How to make Events
How to load aliases from another file
How to load popups from another file
How to Add a Pil
Combining popups and aliases
How to add Networks and their servers
Adding Server addresses

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