• Table of contents
• Inline Images
  • Use inline images
  • Use animate gifs
  • Use proxy
  • Max file size
  • Max file cache size
  • Max number of lines
  • Download from links with matching wildcard/regex patterns
  • Disable inline images for channel/private windows
  • Always inline images for channel/private windows
  • Ignoring images from specific users

Images are not downloaded through the proxy options unless the "Use proxy" option below is enabled.

Inline Images¶

Up to 5 links is allowed per message, duplicates in a message are removed.

All links are matches against a whitelist of wildcards or regular expressions when enclosed in a // pattern.

See also /inlineimage.

Use inline images¶

Enable or disable Inline Images support.

When the support is disabled, all inline images is removed from all text buffers.

NB: Windows in the include/exclude list ignores this options.

Use animate gifs¶

Enable or disable animated gifs support.

When the support is disabled, all gifs will stop animating and show the first frame as a static image.

Use proxy¶

If enabled, the proxy associated with the current server or the global proxy server will be used when downloading images.

Max file size¶

Changes the maximum file/image size to download.

Max file cache size¶

Sets the maximum size of the cache folder where images are downloaded to, the folder is located in $adiircdir\Cache\Preview.

AdiIRC will periodically clean the folder to match the max cache size.

Max number of lines¶

Sets the maximum lines of text using the current font the image can occupy before being resized.

The images keeps their aspect ration when resized, resizing by width is not supported, so a very wide image could be cut off.

Download from links with matching wildcard/regex patterns¶

List of allowed patterns to match with links.

A pattern is considered a regular expression if enclosed with the "/" character, e.g /pattern/.

Wildard Example

Matching https://i.imgur.com/6BexrUQ.jpg using various wildcard pattern.

https://i.imgur.com/*
*i.imgur.com/*
*://i.imgur.com/*

Regex Example

Matching https://i.imgur.com/6BexrUQ.jpg using various regex pattern.

/https\:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/.*/
/.*i.*imgur.*com/.*/
/.*\:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/.*/

Matching any image on any hostname using a regex pattern.
/.*\.(?:jpe?g|gif|png|tiff|ico)$/i

Patterns are only matching against links already captured by AdiIRC.

Disable inline images for channel/private windows¶

Channels or users windows excluded from downloading images.

Per server settings can be added using network:#channel syntax.

Always inline images for channel/private windows¶

Always download images for some channels/users windows.

Per server settings can be added using network:#channel syntax.

These windows ignores/overrides the "Use inline images" option.

Ignoring images from specific users¶

There is a Inline Images flag when adding a ignore in Options -> Ignore.