Author Topic: Internet buzzers (Read 12246 times)

Brig Bother · « **Reply #15 on:** November 21, 2003, 06:15:21 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 21 2003, 09:25 AM\'] [quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 11:30 PM\'] I'm just wondering if and/or how that local information would get sent through IRC. [/quote]
I could see it getting done quite easily via mIRC scripting. [/quote]
Indeed: mIRC is the IRC client of choice.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #16 on:** November 22, 2003, 03:57:05 AM »

I, then, will defer to those who know more about (m)IRC than do I. And good luck, Brig.

chris319 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 22, 2003, 07:18:55 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 21 2003, 12:25 AM\'] [quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 11:30 PM\'] I'm just wondering if and/or how that local information would get sent through IRC. [/quote]
I could see it getting done quite easily via mIRC scripting. [/quote]
You'd have to have an app or script which would know when to start timing (when the question has been fully displayed), wait for a keystroke/mouse click, then send the timing data back. The emcee's terminal would then have to know how to process this data, i.e. who came in first with the correct answer.

The real guy to ask is the guy who wrote mIRC.

clemon79 · « **Reply #18 on:** November 22, 2003, 08:58:59 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Nov 22 2003, 05:18 PM\'] The real guy to ask is the guy who wrote mIRC. [/quote]
Khalid would know, for sure, but I bet a couple polite inquiries on #mIRC on the EFNet IRC network would get you the information you needed, too...

Brig Bother · « **Reply #19 on:** November 22, 2003, 09:36:21 PM »

Cheers chaps!

I'm about to go to bed as it happens, but I've just popped a message on the mIRC message board for now and we'll see what comes up.

Many thanks!