• Table of contents
• Scripting Menus
  • Menu prefix
  • Target multiple menus
  • Menu hierarchy
  • Separator
  • $1- lines inside menus
  • Adding top menus
  • Mouse events

Scripting Menus¶

You can edit most AdiIRC menus 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

Menu commands can also contain multiple lines, if so they must be enclosed with brackets.

Example

; Add a new menu item with the text "Query", when clicked, execute both "/query $1" and "/whois $1".
Query:{
  /query $1
  /whois $1
}

Menu prefix¶

The "menu" prefix can also be used in a custom script to add more items to a menu, the syntax is the same.

Example

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

Target multiple menus¶

Multiple menus can be targeted with the same menu item by separating them with comma.

Example

;Add a new menu item for nicklist and channels with the text "Hello World", when clicked execute "/echo -ag Hello World".
menu nicklist,channel {
  Hello World:/echo -ag Hello World
}

Wildcards can also be used.

Example

; Add a new menu item for all menus with the text "Hello World", when clicked execute "/echo -ag Hello World".
menu * {
  Hello World:/echo -ag Hello World
}

; Add a new menu item for all custom window menus with the text "Hello World", when clicked execute "/echo -ag Hello World".
menu @* {
  Hello World:/echo -ag Hello World
}

Menu hierarchy¶

The menu hierarchy is determined by punctuation marks.

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

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 sub menu item inside "Tools" 
  .Whois:/whois $1

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

  ;Create another upper menu item called "Operate" 
  Operate

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

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

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

Separator¶

Hyphen (-) can be used to add a menu separator.

Example

menu nicklist {
  ;Create a upper menu item called "Tools" 
  Tools

  ;Add a separator
  -

  ;Create another upper menu item called "More Tools" 
  More Tools
}

$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 $nick associated with the query window.
Nicklist - A list of selected nicks in the nicklist.
Menubar - Your nick ($me) on currently connected server.

Adding top menus¶

As of AdiIRC 1.9.7 new top menus can be inserted in the Menubar after the "Help" item using the /menubar command.

Regular scripted menus can be used by referencing the @popup name, e.g "menu @mymenu { }"

Mouse events¶

For custom windows there are some special menu items which is triggered on various mouse events.

Syntax is the same as regular menus, but the menu name must be of the following:

mouse - Triggers when the mouse moves.
sclick - Triggers when the left mouse button is pressed down.
mclick - Triggers when the middle mouse button is pressed down. (AdiIRC only)
dclick - Triggers when the left mouse button is pressed down twice.
uclick - Triggers when any mouse button is released.
rclick - Triggers when the right mouse button is pressed down.
lbclick - Triggers when the left mouse button is pressed down in the listbox.
leave - Triggers when the mouse leaves the window.
drop - Triggers when the window receives a drag/drop event.