If you ever experience an issue with displaying unicode characters (which is not just an encoding issue), try enable Options -> Messages -> Use alternative text rendering.
If you need to be authed with nickserv before joining a channel, you can use the /sleep (or /timer) command in your Serverlist "Run these commands on connect" field:
/msg nickserv identify <password> /sleep 3 /join #channel1,#channel2
/sleep 3, means wait 3 seconds before running the following command.
The new Serverlist has this feature built-in as well as SASL support which makes this a non issue.
When you select text from the message buffer, AdiIRC will automatically copy the text to the clipboard when you release the left mouse button.
If you prefer to manually press CTRL + C, you can go to Options -> Messages and disable Automatically copy selected text to Clipboard.
If you experience problems connecting to a TLS only server, you can try the .NET 4.5 version which has support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
You can disable or change the CTCP VERSION reply using the CTCP event in a small script.
This can be used for any CTCP request.
; Disable CTCP version reply. CTCP *:VERSION:*:halt ; Reply with a custom version. CTCP *:VERSION:*:ctcpreply $nick IRC Version 42 | halt
Tips for various events can be disabled in Options -> Tips, to disable highlight tips, go to Options -> Highlights, in the listbox area select "$me", then click the "Edit" button, uncheck "Tip message" and click "Save".
Go to Options -> Highlights, in the listbox area select "$me", then click the "Edit" button, set the sound dropdown to "No sound" and click "Save".
AdiIRC supports only PFX certificates, you can convert a PEM certificate to PFX using this openssl format:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out mynick.pfx -in mynick.pem
For creating a new certificate, have a look here
See also https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-converter.html
To update to a beta release, just type /betaup.
There is a tiny "|" separator to the right, if you right click the Toolbar and choose "Customize", you are able to drag the item to the right of that border.
Should be much faster in AdiIRC 3.1.
Things you can try:
First try adjust /fupdate, if still not fast enough you can try some of the things below.
The default options used when connecting with /server or from Menubar -> File -> New window can be changed in Options -> Quick Connect.
Some networks tries to scan your port 113 to see if you have a Identd server running, if the port is closed or the identd server is not running, it can take a while for the scan to timeout, make sure Identd server is enabled in Options -> Server and that port 113 is open in your firewall and router. (AdiIRC does not yet support UPNP).
When "Lock Bars" is disabled (right click any Menubar/Toolbar/Switchbar/Statusbar/Treebar to enable/disable) you can left-click the header of the monitor panel or a tab and move it with the mouse, if you release the mouse in the middle of the AdiIRC main window, the monitor will become a standalone window.
The window can be docked inside AdiIRC as a regular channel window by pressing CTRL + D.
See also Monitor Panels.
You can also undock the monitor panel into a window by right-clicking the header or tab and choose "Undock".
Use , inbetween the channels.
Yes, check Options -> Tray Icon.
No, I use .NET because its fast, easy and it has large libraries which enables me to code much more in less time. On a side note, from Windows Vista, .NET is included in Windows per default. -- kr0n
Yes, both chat and file transfers
I mainly do this for fun and learning more about .NET/C# and IRC in general. -- kr0n
Check https://dev.adiirc.com/projects/adiirc/issues and see if its been reported. If not, report it!
Check https://dev.adiirc.com/projects/adiirc/issues and see if someone suggested it. If not, suggest it!
Nothing really. It's an old prefix used for some other projects many years ago, and the prefix just carried over to this irc client. Original it was derived from the song A.D.I.D.A.S by the band KoRn. According to some it could stand for All Day I IRC :P -- kr0n
AdiIRC is freeware, but not open source.
There is a system in place in case of bus factor.
AdiIRC is a Windows application using Windows APIs/features/user interface controls/.NET framework, as such it cannot run on Linux/macOS or through Mono.
It does run very well using Wine, check this guide https://dev.adiirc.com/projects/adiirc/wiki/Wine.
There are no plans to rewrite AdiIRC for other platforms.
AdiIRC is a desktop IRC client, as such it cannot be ported, a new client would have to be made from scratch and there are already good mobile IRC clients, also I have no interest in mobile IRC. --kr0n
Message fonts can be changed in Options -> Fonts.
The task manager numbers are not the actual memory usage, the .NET framework which runs AdiIRC is like a little OS inside Windows, it allocates memory as needed and free it as needed, just like windows does, there are no such thing as a memory leak in .NET applications, except in very specific cases.
To show the real memory usage, you can type /gcmem in the Editbox.
There is no OTR support in AdiIRC and no plans to add it, however it is possible for someone to add OTR support through a Plugin or a DLL. (As an example, check the blowfish DLL)
Pressing CTRL + D toggles "Show on desktop".
"Shown on desktop" status is also saved across sessions.
This can be done to go from stable to beta, or from 32 bit to 64 and visa versa, no other steps needed.
Type /paths -o or go to Menubar -> Tools -> Config Files to open the config folder, copy it anywhere.
AdiIRC seems to generate a lot of false positives in some antivirus programs, if possible, please submit the file to your antivirus vendor for false positive analyzes and/or white-list AdiIRC.exe.
If you are unsure, the false positives seems to be resolved after a few weeks, you can try update again then.
If your log folder is using a lot of space and you don't want to delete any logs, you can compress it by right-clicking the log folder, click "Properties", click "Advanced", check "compress contents to save disk space" and press OK.
Press the SHIFT key while clicking the AdiIRC icon/shortcut.
Add this line to the Commands tab to your twitch server in the Serverlist, it only works for channels with less than 1000 users.
CAP REQ :twitch.tv/membership
For now a little scripting is needed, the script editor can be opened from Menubar -> Tools -> Edit Scripts.
The on TEXT event can be used to listen for specific messages on specific/all channels:
Example
; Ignore all messages containing badword on all channels. on ^*:TEXT:*badword*:*:halt ; Ignore all messages starting with !badword on a specific channel. on ^*:TEXT:!badword*:#channel:halt
You can add as many as you want.
Options -> Ignore can also be used.
Absolutely. You can also distribute a custom config.ini file which uses your own hostname/#channel as the default.
You can also bundle scripts/plugins/translations etc.
Example config.ini
[QuickConnect] Autojoin=#channel Serverhost=irc.hostname.com Serverport=6667
If you have any questions contact us.
There is a window priority system in Options -> Windows - Window Order, simply add the name of the channel or the network name you want to have a higher priority, higher up items have higher priority.
No, use Window Order.
See Autojoin channels.
The MDI Window Titlebars are drawn by Windows and are stuck with the Windows 7 theme, microsoft refuses to update them.
Hiding them causes all kinds of graphical glitches since MDI Windows in .NET apparently was not designed to work without them.
Please donate to your favorite local charity instead, it's much appreciated, thanks.
To globally hide or show events, use Options -> Events.
To hide or show events on specific channels, right-click the channel in the Treebar or Switchbar and click the Events menu.
To only show events from users who have been recently active, enable Only show join, parts, quits, nick from active users.
When it's ready.
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