The /hotlink command can be used to override the default menu as well as add additional items to the default menu from within the on hotlink event.

This event can only be used during the right-click event:

if ($hotlink(event) == rclick) {
    ; hotlink code
}

Synopsis

/hotlink -md [@menu]

Switches

• -m - Creates a popup menu using a custom @menu
• -d - Adds the items from @menu to the default popup menu

Parameters

• @menu - a custom menu to be used for the popup menu

Example

The following example will add a right click menu item to look up commands and identifiers in the help file on mouse hover.

menu @helppop  {
  Lookup Help $1:!help $remove($1, $chr(40), $chr(41))
}
on ^$*:hotlink:/^[/$]\S+/:*:{
  if ($hotlink(event) == rclick) {
    hotlink -m @helppop 
  }
}

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v7.23

Added On: 19/03/2012

Note: Individual switches were not taken into consideration.

See also

• List of commands
• List of identifiers
• $hotline
• $hotlinepos