AdiIRC

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h1. Inline Images

Experimental support for Inline images was added "in this 64 bit build":https://adiirc.com/build/AdiIRC64.exe and "this 32 bit build":https://adiirc.com/build/AdiIRC.exe, this may or may not become a feature depending on feedback/issues discovered.

Support for setting custom domains and including/excluding channels may be added later.

h2. Testing

*When enabled, all links ending with a image file extension will be downloaded, so don't enable if you are on channels/networks you don't trust.*

I don't recommend testing this in your daily driver, instead download the AdiIRC.exe to a folder somewhere and run it from there.

It can be useful to keep the [[Rawlog Dialog|Rawlog]] open to see any errors when loading images.

h2. Enabling Inline Images support

All options is currently done through the [[/setoption]] command.

To enable, type:

<pre>

/setoption InlineImages UseInlineImages True

</pre>

To disable, type:

<pre>

/setoption InlineImages UseInlineImages False

</pre>

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

h2. Enabling animate gifs

To enable, type:

<pre>

/setoption InlineImages AnimateInlineImages True

</pre>

To disable, type:

<pre>

/setoption InlineImages AnimateInlineImages False

</pre>

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

h2. Changing the maximum image size in bytes

By default only images smaller than 2 megabytes is downloaded, this can be changed by typing:

<pre>

/setoption InlineImages InlineImagesMaxBytes N

</pre>

Where N is the new maximum number of bytes to allow.

h2. Changing the image sizes

By default all images which cannot fit in 20 lines using the current font is downsized, the number of lines can be changed by typing:

<pre>

/setoption InlineImages InlineImagesMaxLines N

</pre>

Where N is the new maximum number of lines before the image is resized.

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

h2. Cache

All downloaded images are saved to [[$scriptdir]]\Cache\Preview, the folder is cleared automatically when AdiIRC is closed.

Some option for handling cache may be added in the future.

h2. Feedback

Would like to hear how slow/fast loading and painting the images is, and whether cpu usage is acceptable.

Since Taskbar memory usage is not accurate at all for .NET programs, the output from the [[/imagecache]] command could be useful to determine memory usage.

The /imagecache command also prints the number of images in the cache, it would be useful to know whether it shrinks properly when a window buffer is cleared or the image line is removed in other ways.

Information whether everything works as expected without inline images enabled would also be useful.