Tools you can use in mIRC

Smart tools speed up your use of IRC.

mIRC is equipped with lots of smart tools to make your time on IRC a joy instead of a struggle with strange commands and events.

Listing channels in mIRC

IRC Chat networks offer you huge amounts of channels all with different chat topics. mIRC's List Dialog helps you finding your way trough these thousands of channel names by some very detailed filtering features. You can easily search for one or more words matching channel names and channel topics. mIRC will sort all channels matching the search and present them in a List window.

To filter away unwanted channel names or topics mIRC offers the Hide function. In this example mIRC will search for the words win and mirc but hide all channels matching one of the words (or sub-strings) unix, os/2, atari or c64.

You can use the hide function to filter away offensive and/or anoying channel names and discussion topics. You might want to use it to block easy access to, and search for, channel names and topics you'd rather not see your employees or children participating in. Keep in mind that it does not actually -block- access to any channel or topic!

By the Lock button you can enable mIRC's Password protection on the Hide function. Setting a Password will lock, encrypt and mask the set of words you selected to hide from the channel list.

Once you password protected the set of hidden words (or sub-strings) the List Dialog will look like this. The Unlock button allows you to disable or change the hide function settings..... assuming you remember your password of course...

The User Central

The User Central in mIRC combines up-to-date user information with a database manager storing info for later reference. With all the people you will meet on IRC and the habit of people to change nickname it is sometimes hard to remember who is who. This is where the storage options in the User Central will help you. The User Central can be accessed by the command /uwho {nickname} and from the channel names list and private window popup menus.

The Channel Central

Double clicking in any channel window in mIRC brings you to the Channel Central. This dialog very clearly shows the current Channel modes, Bans and Topic settings. You dont need to know any of the difficult mode commands; mIRC will handle them for you. With to-the-point information you will be told what settings you can change and what not, depending or being channel operator or not.

The Font selection dialog

mIRC offers you full control over the Fonts used in the various windows. You can specify overall font settings for all windows of the same type, or set special fonts in specific windows. The Font selection dialog can be accesses by the /font command or from the System Menu found in every window.

The Channel Folder

You can store frequently joined or favorite channel names in the Channel Folder. This dialog will popup on startup with some suggestions for people new to IRC.