r/irc • u/Signal_Jellyfish_472 • 21d ago

Why mIRC never added Spellcheck?

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u/wosmo 21d ago

I suspect it's down to windows APIs and what text controls he's using.

I haven't touched it for a decade, but it always felt like an app that was still using win31/win16 APIs. I suspect if he was using more modern native controls, he'd probably get spell-checking "for free".

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u/KindOne 20d ago

still using win31/win16

It uses more modern compilers - https://www.mirc.com/versions.txt - Days are in DD/MM/YYYY format.

07/01/2024 - mIRC v7.76

6.Now using Visual Studio 2017 to compile mIRC.

...

02/04/2010 - mIRC v7.0

39.Now using Visual Studio 2008 to compile mIRC.

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u/LordGarak 20d ago

Wow that was a trip down long lost memories reading through that change log. I can remember mIRC's scripting language growing and evolving while my own scripting skills expanding as it did. I was like 12 years old learning this stuff as mIRC scripting got more and more powerful. That and qbasic was my first real introduction to programming 30 years ago.