ALIASES

Creating an aliase

1. Click on the Add button at the bottom of the aliase box.
   Give your new aliase a name (something easy to relate to the picture)
   Highlight your new name in the left box. On the right, paste or create your new aliase, click save.

2. To read text files from aliases:

   /execread c:\wavs\txtfiles\greet.txt

   NOTE: the / is a command in aliases. It must start flush to the left within the command definition box, NO Spaces before it.

To save a multi line popup from your screen to aliases

1. Place your mouse pointer one line above the popup you want to copy off of the screen... left click and drag hilighting the entire popup(when you release hilight will disappear) to one line below * (it works better to copy a line above and a line below and edit out the extra to ensure you get all of the picture).
2. Click Alias at the top of your pirch screen.
3. Click add in the alias box.
4. Type in a name and click ok.
5. Right click your mouse and select paste.
6. Edit out all unwanted text, but be careful not to erase any of the bold black lines.(those are the color codes)
7. If a name is used in the aliase you need to replace that with $snick, making sure there is a space on each side of the $snick.
8. Click Save
9. To play your new aliase:highlight the nick you want to play it to, and type /aliasename.

Aliases, as everything else, has several ways of doing something. If you want to just highlight the nick you want to play an aliase to, you use $snick. If you want to have freedom to use the aliase with any nick then you put in $1. To play it you would type /aliasename Nick, play with it you will get the idea soon enough.

FUNCTION KEYS

1. You have a vast amount of options within aliases. Function keys work with just hitting a key.

2. You can have all the F keys (EXCEPT F1 & F4) F1 is for pirch help, F4 closes pirch.

3. Combinations of f keys give you even more! You can use the ctrl + F Keys, Shift + F keys, Alt + F keys, AND you can combine all of them to give you even more! ctrl+shift+alt+f keys.

4. The function keys give you quick access to commands. Things such as identifying on a server are good for F keys.

example: F2= /msg nickserv identify (password)

then all you do is hit the F2 key when you logon.

Using color and other formatting features in text

To type in color:

1. Hold down the Control Key (CTRL) and press the letter "K"
2. Now enter a number between 1 and 15 from the color bar.
3. Type your message, and enter.
4. To do two colors, CTRL + K + 0,1 type your message.
5. Your message will be white lettering on a black background.

The first number is the color of your text, the second number is the color of your background seperated by a (,).

To make bold, italic, or underlined text:

1. Hold down (ctrl) and (b) for bold, (i) for italic, or (u) for underline at the same time to start.
2. Type the text you want to be bold,italic,or underlined.
3. Hold down (ctrl) and (b) or (i) or (u) at the same time to end.

*These commands can be used in multiple combinations to produce different effects. To end a color and start another make sure you hit ctrl + K to seperate. The same goes to stop and start bold, Italic or Underlined. Play around with the commands, you will get the idea and be making your own spectacular combinations in no time. You will see these commands if you Right Click in pirch also.

PILS

Basically a PIL is programming language that runs within PIRCH, and allows you to manipulate information and text, issue commands, run calculations etc etc etc... the possibilities with PIL are limited only to your imagination.

All we intend to do here is give you the basic knowledge of how to install a PIL into your aliases and a basic idea how to use them.

Let's say that the PIL file that we wish to install and run is called "HUG.PIL", and that it is located currently in your C:\PIRCH32 directory. (All PIL files have the file extension ".pil")

1. Click on aliases, then right click your mouse in the list window of aliases.
   
2. Select "ADD PIL SCRIPT" from the small list you get.
   
3. You will get a small add window when you do this, browse the list you get until you find Hug. Hilight it and hit open(the add window will close when you do this) the pil is now added.
   
4. In the "Aliases" window look for the PIL in the list of aliases, (left hand column) you should find it near the bottom of the list enclosed in square braces like this, [HUG]. All PILs are shown in the aliases in square braces alphabetically at the end of the normal aliases list.
   
5. Click on [HUG] and look in the command definition window, you will see the program itself. A lot of PILs require that certain "Events" or "Aliases" are installed for them to operate, usually the author of the PIL will describe what these "Events" or "Aliases" are in a "comment" area at the start of the PIL file. Follow the instructions here to setup what ever is required for the PIL to run.
   
6. Close the "Aliases" window by clicking on the "Save" button.
   
7. In the command line type /RUNSCRIPT [HUG] (and what ever parameters may be required for the PIL) and the PIL should run.

You can make it an aliase or a popup rather than typing all that each time you wish it to run. More complicated pils make it frustrating to remember the exact commands to run.

If you have any trouble getting a PIL to run, check for error messages in the "Server" window, this may give you an idea as to what the problem is. If you are still unable to run the PIL, contact the author of the PIL as he/she is the person that knows what the PIL is supposed to do. Given the huge number of PILs available, the operators of Picard are not really in a position to provide detailed answers to why a particular PIL will not run. But those with pirch have played with a pil or two and can maybe help figure it out together.

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