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The ON Char event is triggered when a character results from pressing one or more inside of a custom @window.

See the note about the on keydown event, pressing control + o should result in two keypress being reported from on keydown, and control + o generates the character with code point 15, on char will trigger for that character.

This event fills the following identifiers:

$keyvalThe unicode codepoint of the character resulting from keypresses

$keycharThe actual character resulting from keypresses

$keyrptIf the key is being held down/repeating

Synopsis

ON <level>:char:<@>:<codepoint,...,codepointN>:<commands>

Parameters

<level>The corresponding access levels for the event to trigger.

<@>The Custom Windows where this event should listen. Can be @ for all windows.

<codepoint>The specific characters' codepoints to listen for. Can specify multiple codepoints, such as:

ON *:char:@myWindow:38,42,55,78:echo -a $keyval

Example

Create an alias that launches a custom, picture window which listens for resulting character from keypresses and displays the character and if it is repeating:

alias keyDownTest {
  window -p $+ $iif($window(@myWindow),ra) @myWindow 550 300 250 105
}
ON *:char:@myWindow:*: {
  clear @myWindow
  drawtext @myWindow 1 3 3 Codepoint value: $iif($keyval,$v1,NA)
  drawtext @myWindow 1 3 25 Character: $iif($keychar,$v1,NA)
  drawtext @myWindow 1 3 47 Repeating: $keyrpt
}

The following command can now be typed into any mIRC command prompt:

/keyDownTest

Below is an image reflecting what this example will look like:

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v7.62
Added on: 29 Jul 2020
Note: Unless otherwise stated, this was the date of original functionality.
Further enhancements may have been made in later versions.

See Also

• on keydown
• on keyup
• $keyval
• $keychar
• $keyrpt

mIRC on event list

A on Action, on Active, on Agent, on Appactive B on Ban C on Char, on Chat, on Chatclose, on Chatopen, on Close, on Connect, on Connectfail, on Ctcpreply D on Dccserver, on Dehelp, on Deop, on Deowner, on Devoice, on Dialog, on Disconnect, on Dns E on Error, on Exit F on Filercvd, on Filesent G on Getfail

H on Help, on Hotlink I on Input, on Invite J on Join K on Keydown, on Keyup, on Kick L on Load, on Logon M on Midiend, on Mode, on Mp3end N on Nick, on Nosound, on Notice, on Notify O on Op, on Open, on Owner P on Parseline, on Part, on Ping, on Playend, on Pong

Q on Queryclose, on Queryopen, on Quit R on Rawmode S on Sendfail, on Serv, on Servclose, on Servermode, on Serverop, on Servopen, on Signal, on Snotice,  on Sockclose, on Socklisten, on Sockopen, on Sockread, on Sockwrite, on Start T on Text, on Topic U on Udpread, on Udpwrite, on Unban, on Unload, on Unotify, on Usermode

V on Vcmd, on Voice W on Wallops, on Waveend