mIRC 6.3

Title:

mIRC 6.3

File Size:

1.5 MB

Requirements:

Windows (All Versions)

Language:

en-us

License:

Shareware

Date Added:

16 Aug 2007

Publisher:

mIRC Co Ltd

Homepage:

http://www.mirc.com

MD5 Checksum:

30D06DDF4312E01B30D0973C97F721FA

This version of mIRC offers full Vista compatability with support for limited user accounts, U3 support, support for tips (those small 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, support for positioning the Treebar at top/bottom of the mIRC window, and a feature 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. Hey, doesn't that sound like fun?

mIRC 6.3 fixes some buggy that made it stick to using a secure port if the last connection was a secure one. And when connecting to an ip address from a round robin dns pool, the original connect address is now remembered and the connect message now has "dns pool" appended to it. By popular request Khaled changed the logging method back to the simple plain old method, so mIRC no longer uses the name.N.log filename format. Also a reload logs bug where mIRC was loading logs in wrong order is fixed.

- Full Vista compatability, among others, means that new installations of mIRC now save all settings in the User's "Application DatamIRC" folder by default. However, if the installer or mIRC find an old installation with a mirc.ini in the same folder as mirc.exe they will use the mirc.exe folder for all settings. If you are installing a new mIRC over an old version you should see no change in behaviour. The installer is now also aware of administrator and standard user accounts and installs mIRC accordingly. Under an Administrator account, the installer will create icons for "All Users". Under a Standard account, it will create icons only for the current user.
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.

- With the U3 support in mIRC we should be able to make an U3 package available for mIRC with which you can take your mIRC wherever you want! U3 is a specification for applications to run from portable storage devices (ie. flash drives) without leaving any settings/traces on the host system. Look on U3.com for more info.

- The support for traytips can be used to notify you of various events such as incoming messages or users in your notify list coming on or leaving IRC. The tips only appear when mIRC is not the active application and are hidden the moment mIRC becomes active. Tips can be fully configured and scripted to show exactly what you want, even in combination with mIRC's highlight function. and of course you can completely disable the tips ;-)

As always this new version of mIRC addresses many, if not all, of the issues reported since the last release. A lot of time was spent tweaking new features, fixing bugs, and a handful of other things. In total there are over 100 changes in this version, making this a great new mIRC! We encourage you to explore the versions.txt file for all changes. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work.

Tjerk Vonck.
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Full list of Fixes, Changes and Additions in mIRC 6.3:

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 behaviour 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 DatamIRC" 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 behaviour.

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 behaviour. 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 = !