AdiIRC

You should always have backups of your harddrives regardless.

You can update AdiIRC in Menubar -> Help -> Check for updates. Updating AdiIRC does not change settings or scripts, it just replaces AdiIRC.exe with a newer version.

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AdiIRC is such a brilliant program. I really regret all the years I spent using mirc

How can I change the nicknames shape on chat - from bold to regular? (Nicknames only)

In options/messages, find the box near the top message-prefix "user". Where it has <$pnick> you can add a Ctrl+B character to the front/tail of that string. You can also use that to change the nick to looke like [nick] {nick} etc. Note that for visibility these choices aren't the best unless you include colors, because those are also valid characters for the nick themselves. You can even use Ctrl+K with number,number to force the nick to be in a specific color regardless of the current settings. To take out the bold, just remove the Ctrl+B characters that are already there by default.

Note that you can't see this if your channel font is already bold. My screen font is Consolas-bold, and in mIRC the Ctrl+B character toggles the display to be not-bold, but in AdiIRC it has no effect on that line.

Also, in mIRC when you change font, mIRC goes back and re-draws all the above lines using the new font, but AdiIRC doesn't bother with all that, and the effect will be on new lines.

Note that preserving your settings is separate from updating the client. You can save a copy of config.ini, and it will have the vast majority of your settings saved there, and the rest of them are in other .ini settings in the same folder with config.ini. i.e. menus.ini is where your alt+P items are saved, commands.ini is where alt+D aliases are. vars.ini is where your %global %variables are saved.

Your scripts are where-ever you placed the files. In the bottom of the Alt+R editor it shows you where they exist relative to config.ini's folder. If it doesn't show the path, it's in that folder. If it shows path\file, then it's a subfolder beneath. You can use $script(0) to find how many scripts are loaded, and $script(number) tells you the location of the Nth script. Same goes for $alias(0) giving info about your Alt+D files.

If you want to hot-swap a new config.ini in place, unlike with mIRC, you can copy the backup on top of config.ini then type without any parameters: /setoption

If you want to automate backup of config.ini, take a look at my backup script for mirc.ini https://mircscripts.net/pVcK1
It works with adiirc as long as you don't try to alter it to locate the other settings files by looking for them in config.ini in the same locations where mirc.ini keeps them. This script keeps 7 backups named after the day of the week, so as long as you notice a problem in time, you have access to a backup which can hopefully revert the changes.

Hi,
I found a solution for the "nickname completer"

I have another question that has to do with AdiIRC.
I changed the message/nicklist font from Verdana to Fixedsys.

So my question is: While I'm typing a message, the letters appear in Verdana. Is there a way to change it to Fixedsys?

The Editbox only supports truetype fonts, you can try this truetype version of fixedsys https://www.cufonfonts.com/font/fixedsys-excelsior-301

Several years ago, Saturn has also compiled a fork of it, Fixedsys Excelsior NoLiga 3.01. Unfortunately I've yet to see a font which has legible symbols for the Ctrl+U underline and some of the other control codes for usage in the scripts editor.

https://mircscripts.net/b8YWx

Many thanks