Introduction
Welcome to AnacønÐa script for mIRC. In this section of this documentation you'll find the following topics:
AnacønÐa is a set of mIRC scripts featured with a clean and easy-to-use interface, and a considerable amount of utilities meant to make your chating on IRC networks more pleasable.
mIRC scripting is the scripting language included with mIRC. A scripting language is a computer language oriented towards the quick development of a given application, rather than its efficiency of execution. Such applications are implemented using interpreters instead of compilers. In this case, the interpreter is mIRC itself, and AnacønÐa is a set (mostly) of text files containing mIRC scripting applications that can be executed by mIRC.
What does the "ns" prefix in each version number stands for?
This prefix stands for "new serie". The purpose behind this prefix is to make clear that this is not the same AnacønÐa script that was being developed until September 20th, 2002. This previous script was extremely malcoded, poorly organized and featured lame applications. Finally realiseing this, the author made the decision to start from scratch, and to write a new script. However, a new name for it was impossible to find, because the author was already hooked to the sound of "anaconda", therefore, instead of coming up with a diferent name for the new script, he retained the old one, but added the "ns" prefix to the version number, in order to establish a frontier between this two scripts.
You can fetch this script at the following websites:
http://anaconda.pt.vu
http://www.mirc.net
http://www.hawkee.com
http://www.mircscripts.org
http://www.scriptsdb.org
There are other mIRC related websites out there that might host this script as well, but the ones mentioned above are where the author submits the latest version in a regular basis.
AnacønÐa was written with the purpose to serve as an extension pack for mIRC. It will provide you with extra features, such as a network manager, an MP3 player, an fserve manager, an away system, amoung many others. AnacønÐa consists of 10 text files containing mIRC script code. The most important file is "core.mrc". This is the file that provides the core settings, which are the main settings for AnacønÐa, and contains resources that are used by all the other modules. These modules are nothing else then all the other 9 files. All of them have the extension ".am", that stands for "AnacønÐa module". These files can be loaded/unloaded as you please. On the other hand, "core.mrc" is supposed to be loaded all the time, and thats why it was named "core". The modules are the following:
You can load/unload them at core settings, section "modules". The "core.mrc" also provides you with new mIRC commands and features that you can consult at the commands section of this documentation.
Inside AnacønÐa main folder, there are several sub-folders that serve as placeholds for the following content:
Core - "core.mrc" and all its auxiliar files
Dlls - The files within are dynamic link libraries (dll) dedicated to mIRC. AnacønÐa uses these dll to fetch functions that mIRC itself can't provide.
Documentation - The files that assemble this HTML documentation
Messages - Text files that will be listed in the channel and query menus, to provide random quotes
Modules - All modules are stored here, each one within its own folder amoung with their auxiliar files
Popups - Custom menus used by the network manager and psyBNC settings
Temp - All temporary files used while AnacønÐa is running
Themes - MTS themes that can be loaded using the theme loader
If you take a look at the content of AnacønÐa main folder you will find a few more sub-folders not listed above. The reason behind this is because they are mIRC default folders and are not used by AnacønÐa.
If you want to ask for information not answered in this documentation, you can go to the AnacønÐa forum and expose what you want to know there. Additionally, there is the AnacønÐa IRC channel where you are also free to ask for help.