AdiIRC

Can we make it into a feature request then? Is this feasible? The Editbox breaking on text modifiers is really a bummer.

Unfortunately is not possible to modify how characters are drawn in the windows control, also to my knowledge, no irc client can do this.

Miranda NG can do it, which I had been using before AdiIRC.

Looks like HexChat can also do some of it, it seems to do italics and underline ok but bold displays a system character. Maybe there's some inspiration in either of these clients' codebases.

I see, it might have made it's own input control from scratch.

If you are looking for an alternative to miranda that can do this, maybe check some of the web clients such as https://www.irccloud.com, https://kiwiirc.com, https://thelounge.chat, maybe one of them can.

Thanks but I'm happy using AdiIRC or Miranda.

Another option that occured to me:

Having AdiIRC display [b][/b], [u][/u] etc. instead of the whitespaces.
That would also improve readability and it's still simple text.

You can try copy/paste this script into the Script Editor, it's not very elegant but might work for your case.

Basically, it inserts [b], [i], [u] into the Editbox when using the ctrl+b, ctrl+i, ctrl+u shortcuts, it also inserts [/b], [/i], [/u] when using the ctrl+shift+b, ctrl+shift+i, ctrl+shift+u shortcuts.

When you press enter, it replaces the [b], [i], [u] and [/b], [/i], [/u] text with the correct control code characters before sending the text.

on *:INPUT:*:{
  if (/* iswm $1) {
    return
  }

  say $replace($1-, [b], $chr(2), [/b], $chr(2), [i], $chr(29), [/i], $chr(29), [u], $chr(31), [/u], $chr(31))
  halt
}

on *:KEYDOWN:*:66,73,85:{
  if ($mouse.key == 2) {
    ; ctrl + b/i/u

    if ($keyval == 66) {
      editbox -i [b]
    }
    else if ($keyval == 73) {
      editbox -i [i]
    }
    else if ($keyval == 85) {
      editbox -i [u]
    }

    halt
  }  
  else if ($mouse.key == 6) {
    ; ctrl + shift + b/i/u

    if ($keyval == 66) {
      editbox -i [/b]
    }
    else if ($keyval == 73) {
      editbox -i [/i]
    }
    else if ($keyval == 85) {
      editbox -i [/u]
    }

    halt
  }
}

Thank you, it works!