Don’t worry I haven’t forgotten about there being a new mIRC. I’m still carrying out testing for compatability in WP MP3 Player. So far I’ve altered how it looks for things(mIRC6.3 returns the %appdata% folder as $mircdir in some cases so I’ve altered all the $mircdir occurences to $nofile($mircexe) which will return the folder in which mIRC is actually installed. This is backward compatible with older mIRCs too. Also got the player to save the status of the OnAirNow and MSN bits.
The eagle eyed amongst you will have long ago noticed the player no longer updates you automatically. This isn’t entirely true, the player will still notify you of updates when it connects, but only if I’ve updated this site, which I haven’t done in so long. Anyhow, watch this space for a new release soon (v.3.0.3)
Now the new mIRC itself…
It’s brilliant as usual. There’s a new option to have it in “Compact”mode(View/Mode/Compact) which gives it the appearance of an IM program, your contacts can be kept in the treebar now as well. Another good thing is that it now connects to mirc.com(or somewhere) to verify your license is legit. I can’t believe Khaled has taken this long to implement this. I had been using a keygen on older mIRCs but I just paid the license when I saw it this time. I mean, I have no excuse really. I love the program and I use it all the time. If you like it, pay for it too, it’s only a tenner at todays exchange rates, gotta love our economy some times!
I’m also learning DCX and will be entirely switching(or perhaps replacing) the mp3 player to use dcx.dll stuff. It just looks so much better. I’ll also be scripting the Blogshares script with it I think, for the same reasons.
I’ve not really got that much computer time at the moment so things are taking longer than usual. If you’re desperate for something, GET IN TOUCH! I’ll put it ahead of the queue.
Also this site may suffer some downtime at the end of the month, Aaron, my host, is talking about moving accounts to another server so that’ll no doubt be a pain!
Cheers.
btk