Scripting Menus

You can edit most AdiIRC menus by in the Menu Editor located at Tools -> Edit Menus.

Status - Edit the status menus.
Channel - Edit the channel menus.
Query - Edit the query menus.
Nicklist - Edit the nicklist menus.
Menubar - Edit the menubar menus.

A menu syntax consists of Menu text<colon>Menu command.

For this reason, only one colon is allowed in a menu, neither the text nor the command can contain any other colons for the menu to work properly.

Example

; Add a new menu item with the text "Query", when clicked, execute "/query $1" where $1 means the first word given to this menu, usually a nick.
Query:/query $1

The "menu" prefix can also be used in a script to add more items to a menu.

Example

;Add a new menu item with the text "Whois", when clicked execute "/whois $1".
menu nicklist {
  Whois:/whois $1
}

Menu hierarchy

The menu hierarchy is determined by punctuation marks.

This works in both the Menu Editor and in a custom script.

Example

menu nicklist {
  ;Create a upper menu item called "Tools", notice you don't need a colon for the upper menu.
  Tools

  ;Use a punctuation mark to put a menu item inside "Tools" 
  .Whois:/whois $1

  ;Use a punctuation mark to put another menu item inside "Tools" 
  .Who:/who $1

  ;Create another upper menu item called "Operate" 
  Operate

  ;Use a punctuation mark to put a menu item inside "Operate" 
  .Kill:kill $1

  ;Create a sub menu item called "Operate More" inside "Operate" 
  .Operate More

  ;Use two punctuation mark to put a menu item inside "Operate More" 
  ..Kill again:kill $1
}

$1- lines inside menus

$1- will be filled with different words depending on the menu type.

Status - The currently connected $network name.
Channel - The current $chan name.
Query - The $nick associated with the query window.
Nicklist - A list of selected nicks in the nicklist.
Menubar - Your nick on currently connected server.