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Program Information:

System Requirements:

32-Bit versions

• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows Me
• Windows 2000
• Windows 98

64-Bit Versions

• Windows Vista x64
• Windows XP x64

Download mIRC 5.71:

mIRC 5.71   (1.1 MB)

What's New in mIRC 5.71:

• Fixed text wrapping bug in /gtalk.
• Fixed scrollbar not being displayed in address book nick listbox.
• Fixed switchbar display bug.
• The toolbar/switchbar now use colour 255,0,255 as the background transparent colour.
• Changed the way $null is processed when used in identifiers.
• Fixed bug with mark/copy routine display not working properly when an Agent is over a window.
• Voice commands may or may not work in desktop windows, this seems to be a limitation of the SR software you are using.
• Fixed icon display bug in custom dialogs.
• Can now have unlimited controls per tab section in a custom dialog, also fixed bug with visible/hidden state not being preserved for controls.
• Fixed Editor dialog display bug when minimizing all via task bar menu.
• Fixed bug in handling of port ranges for IRC servers list.
• When clicking the Connect button to connect to a server, you can now hold down the Control key to force mIRC to use the next server in the list.
• Fixed /close bug.
• Fixed quit message in channel window not showing user\'s address.
• $dbuw and $dbuh now return a decimal value.
• Fixed small offset bug in $window().dx/dy.
• Now checks for /window @Invalid Format.
• Changed behaviour in editbox which was making it incompatible with applications which paste text into mIRC, eg. NJStar.
• Changed default editbox in Editor dialog back to standard non-rtf editbox, the rtf editbox was behaving oddly.
• Clicking right-button in a non-active window editbox now makes the window active.
• Added option in lock dialog to hide the list of channels/queries in tray menu when mIRC is locked.
• Added mIRC window always on top switch to Windows dialog.
• Fixed bug in handling of {} brackets in some situations.
• Added /username and /emailaddr command, allow you to set the corresponding values in the connect dialog.
• Should handle UNC paths/filenames properly now.
• If you do $dir sounds\\*.*, the full path defaults to the mIRC dir.
• Can now send !nick file to channel by pressing Control+Enter.
• DCC Send filetype ignored message now shows filename.
• Added support for JPG and PNG files in 32bit mIRC.
• Fixed background picture bug, if the bmp was very small the fill\r mode would fail to display it properly.
• Number of users in channel now shown in channel titlebar.
• Added $poscs() case sensitive version of $pos().
• You can now use to turn these options off in the /gopts -b command.
• Fixed display bug if you had paragraph-spacing turned on in a window with a background picture.
• Can now use $ids and &vars in custom dialog tables.
• Fixed bug in $base(), can handle larger values. It now also strips out 0x number prefix, eg. from 0x0809.
• Agent now tries to set the language id for speaking based on the language id of the TTS module on your system. If it can\'t, it defaults to a US language ID. Can now also be set manually with /gopts -n where langid is the hex id value.
• DCC chat send/recv errors now trigger the on close event.
• Fixed +e handling on Conference Room servers which use +e as a channel mode, not as the exception list mode as on IRCnet.
• $mask() now replaces part of an address containings an equal \'=\' sign with a \'*\' wild card, for ircds, eg. conference room, that encrypt part of the address and use \'=\' to mark it.
• Fixed paragraph spacing not working in listbox windows, eg. notify list, etc.
• Fixed gpf bug in the view menu in the Popups editor dialog.
• Fixed bug with spacebar not displaying popup menu in a listbox.
• $window() now lists dcc chat windows as =chatname to be compatible with $active.
• Added /clearial command to clear the internal address list.
• Added /socklist command, lists open custom sockets.
• Fixed bug with /remini, mIRC now replaces all [] characters in ini section names and headers with ~ when using ini commands and identifiers.
• Changed Highlight method, when using wildcards the wildcard text is matched against individual words separated by spaces, instead of against the whole line, eg. est* will match Now testing.
• Added /play -b switch, plays text in the clipboard to a window. The text is temporarily saved to a file playqN.txt, which is deleted once playing is completed.
• Fixed page up/down scrolling too far when using paragraph line spacing.
• Fixed switchbar display for time-out dcc sends/gets.
• mIRC now maintains an internal banlist for each channel. Added $chan().banlist, returns $true if mode +b has been seen already, or $false if not, or $inmode if currently in a mode +b listing. Added $banlist(#channel,N) identifier, returns Nth item, or if N is 0 returns total number of items in list. $banlist().by returns the address of the user who set the ban, and $banlist().date returns the date. Note: this feature does not work on ircx servers.
• The isop comparison now evalutes to true if a nick is an owner on ircx servers.
• Added support for menus in custom dialogs:
  
  dialog name {
  menu ext, [, menuid]
  item ext, [, menuid]
  item break, [, menuid]
  }
  
  If you don\'t specify a [menuid] for an item, it will use the last menuid that was created/used in a previous menu/item.
  
  on 1:dialog:name:menu:*:{
  echo 5 $dname $devent $did
  }
  
  You can use /did -ebcuadio to enable/disable, check/uncheck, append, delete, insert, and overwrite a menu item.
  
  To add an item to a menu you can use: /did -a name .
  
  To insert an item you must use: /did -i name where is the item before which you want to insert an item.
  
  Note: You can use the text reak to refer to a break item in the /did command.
• Fixed while loop bug in custom window popup menus.
• Ctcp version requests are now queued, and the replies are sent once every few seconds.
• DCC Get now locks the file being downloaded to prevent it being modified/over-written by a second download or other applications.
• Can now resize nicknames listbox in channel windows.
• Added DCC Fail event sound to Sounds section.
• Changed /url [on|off|show|hide|-ran] [[N|mark]|address] -r removes either the Nth item, or all items that match the mark. You can also do /url -an address to visit a new URL, where -a = activate browser, -n = use new browser window.
• Added $bytes(N,bkmgt3).suf identifier, returns comma formatted filesize.
• Improved /var, now handles identifiers containing commas better though note that you should use the equal sign in the definition, eg. /var %x = etc.
• Added $sock().wserr,wsmsg returns winsock error number and message for a socket in the event of a socket error.
• Custom dialog Tab control now automatically adds a scrollbar if the tabs don\'t fit the width of the tab control.
• Fixed $prop and $isid not working in $iif() identifier.
• Added Show mode prefix to IRC dialog, prefixes nicks in messages with their .@%+ mode on a channel.
• Fixed memory bug in dcc window popup menus.
• Server socket now binds to a random local port.
• File type selection in file dialogs is now set more intelligently.
• Added Agents section to Options dialog. You can also turn agent on or off for a window via the channel or query window system menu.
  
  Added new switches:
  
  /gtalk -lu switch, where -l applies lexicon settings to text, and -u uses the speech settings, ie. pitch, volume, the increase speed setting, etc.
  
  /gload -h and /gopts -h switch, makes mIRC hide the agent when mIRC is minimized. Also added $agent().hide property. You can also use the -h switch with the other agent commands to prevent them from popping the agent when mIRC is minimized and has the -h setting.
  
  
• Added /loadbuf -r switch, resets contents of window.
• Fixed bug in /ignore /auto /protect, if you used -r to remove an address, and the entry contained a #channel, the address wasn\'t being removed.
• Fixed bug with control+copy when copying text and control codes.
• Fixed bug when using /filter -io where dialog name contained a \'.\' character.
• $mklogfn() now appends date to filename if you have the dated logfiles option turned on in the logging dialog.
• Fixed max dcc gets bug in fileserver.
• Added custom dialog editbox item limit N which limits text in an editbox to N characters.
• Can now rename tabs in a tab control using /did.
• Added /hop [#channel [key]] command, parts the current channel and joins a new one. If no channel is specified, it parts and rejoins the current channel without closing the window.
• Can now use /url to open email addresses as well.
• Added hyperlinks to custom dialogs:
  
  link est, id, x y w h
  
  
• Added $disk().size property.
• Added $file().atime, .mtime, .ctime, return last access and modify time, and creation time.
• Fixed bug with $findfile() and $finddir() not being able to see local variables in a command.
• For ircx compatible servers which mIRC doesn\'t recognize, you can send /ircx to the server on connect, and if mIRC receives the 800 numeric reply, it will treat the server as ircx internally.
• Fixed switchbar display bug when windows are maximized in some situations.
• Added /showmirc -op switches, -o sets mIRC on top, -p removes the on top setting.
• Changed the ignore types feature in dcc options, now works as ignore all except. Also added ignore timer, allows you to turn off the ignore temporarily.
• Fixed positions of windows not being saved correctly if windows taskbar was positioned to top or left of desktop.
• Fixe $sdir changing folder name to lowercase.
• The notice sent before initiating a DCC chat for a fileserver now says DCC Fserve instead of DCC Chat.
• Added Kick event to Options/IRC/Show dialog and Channel central.
• Added Highlight nicknames option to Display/options dialog, it colours nickname prefixes in messages with the highlight text\r colour.
  
  Note: if you use the /cline command to colour a nickname in a channel nicklist, the nicks colour in the listbox is used as the highlight colour.
  
  
• Fixed bug in mark/copy routine, in some cases may not have been copying text to clipboard properly.
• Fixed bug with ! command prefix, was affecting subsequent commands when used in a script.
• Fixed /drawcopy bug.
• Added menu { rclick:/command } event, only triggers in a custom @window if no menu items are defined.
  
  Also added $mouse.lb property, returns $true if a mouse event occurred in a listbox.
  
  
• Improved support for dual monitor displays in 32bit mIRC, added switch to Display/options dialog.
• Added $nick().colour property, returns nickname colour, if it\'s not coloured, returns highlight colour.

About:

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, on hundreds of IRC networks, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.

mIRC Features:

• Full featured Internet Relay Chat client
• Clean, practical interface
• Highly configurable and supports features such as buddy lists
• Powerful scripting language that can be used both to automate mIRC and to create applications that perform a wide range of functions from network communications to playing games.