Configuring Dirc

The two menus for configuring Dirc are the "Windows..." and the "Servers..." menus both of which are under the "Edit" menu.

Windows

This window lets you alter the font's used to display text, and how much text is held within windows.
The pop-up menus on the right hand side of the window show the current font name and size for the option selected on the left. Message windows include: the status window, private message windows, and channel windows. The List window is the window that is used to list the available channels in.

Under these are the settings for the amount of text "remembered" in windows. The list window can be set to hold between 20 and 20000 lines of text, a good value for this is 2000. Channel windows can hold between 20 and 5000 lines of text, and private message windows between 20 and 500. All windows that have a text input area at there bottom have a command history, this can hold between 5 and 200 lines of text.

Note: The more lines of text that windows hold the more memory is required, and the slower Dirc will run. If you have a fast machine with lots of memory this may not be an issue, if you find Dirc is slow then reducing these values may help considerably.

Servers

This window lets you alter the server known to Dirc, adding new ones, deleting old ones, and altering the details of current servers.
The servers currently known to Dirc are listed down the left-hand side of the window, and the Name, Address, and Port number are all given down the right hand side of the window. Also on the right hand side is a list of initial commands to be sent to the server when a connection has been made. This can be used to automatically join a channel when connected, along with other tasks that you normally do when connecting to a server. Note: These commands are sent to the server in a low priority thread so that the rest of the program remains responsive - this may lead to the commands being sent slowly.

To delete a server entry select it, and then select the Delete button at the bottom. To create a new server entry select the New button, and to alter the details of any server just select it, and alter the details in the right-hand side text areas. The name given to the server must be unique, and the port number must be in the range 0-65535 (most commonly 6667).

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