[Installation]

1. Unzip the nickcomp112.zip file into a new directory.
   Note: You won't have any problems installing this addon in any Dir on your
         Harddisk, but i recommend you to use a dir within your mIRC-Dir.
         This File contains: - nickcomp.mrc (the Script)
                             - getdir.dll (a .dll extension for mIRC)
                             - readme.txt (this file)
   The Script creates a file called 'dnic.hsh' in the dir it was installed to.

2. Type /load -rs x:\path\nickcomp.mrc at the mIRC command line.

3. Click 'Yes', when a dialog box popups up to ask if you want to run the
   initialization.

Note: These script requires mIRC 32 Bit v5.8 and above. mIRC 32 Bit v5.9 and
      above is recommended. To get the latest version of mIRC, visit
      http://www.mirc.co.uk/

How to Uninstall

Please use menu popup from menubar to unload the script.
It will unload the script file, delete the dnic.hsh where all settings are
stored and will delete some temp. variables.

[Configuration]

After the first installation the Addon is still deactivated. You can find the
configuration in the menu. As long as no other script renamed the menubar it's
called 'Commands'. You can find it in the mIRC-Menu between 'Dcc' and 'Window'.

Commands
.do nickcomp
..setup
..------
..unload

Below are descriptions of the functions of the addon-setup.

Setup Dialog
- Menu
  - File
    . New: Set anything back to default
    . Load: Loads Settings and/or Styles from a File
    . Save: Saves Settings and/or Styles to a File
    . Exit: Ask to Save changes and close the Setup
  - Help
    . Help: Open the Helpfile
    . Homepage: Run the Homepage in the default Browser
    . About: Opens the About-Dialog with some Information and Comments
- Settings
  . Nick Completion: Enable/Disable the Addon
  . Trigger(s): This Characters are used as trigger to complete a nick
  - If more than one nick matches ...
    . ask: It will popup a box with all found nicks and you can select the nick
           you want to talk to
    . use first match: It will use the first nick it founds
    . don't complete: It will send the line unchanged
- Styler
  . Edit Style: You can style the output of the nickcomp with colors, extra chars
                or whatever you like. You can enter here anything you could enter
                in the input-line of a chat-window in mIRC. <nick> represent the
                completed nick and <char> represent the used trigger - both will
                be replaced in the output.
  . Edit <nick>: If you want to change Style within the completed nickname, you
                 can do that here. As above you can do any input as in the
                 miRC-Chat-Window Input-Line. You can use <mid> and <[-]N> here.
                 Where N is a number in <N> and <-N> which identify the
                 character. <1> is the 1st, <2> the 2nd while <-1> is the last
                 character and so on ... <mid> represent any unused character, so
                 you can style <1><mid><-1> if you want to change the stye of
                 first and last char for example.
- Preview: Shows you a preview of the current style.

[Usage]

This Addons triggers on the first word in you text and for the last char which
must be one of the Trigger(s) in your setup.

Say one of your Trigger is : and you want to tell me, Ecronika, something and you
type: 

Ecro: Hi - I wanna ask you something ...

It will be displayed as :

Ecronika: Hi - I wanna ask you something ...

You can use any part of the nickname, which is usefull for nicks like
{-nickname-} - you could just type: nick: Text

[Description]

defcon nickcomp is a very fast nick completer for mIRC for those who don't like
having to use TAB, want to style the nicks or just don't want to type special
Characters for mIRC's TAB-Completion like {,[ or ^. I hope you find this addon
useful and that it makes your IRC-life more enjoyable.

[Contact]

IRC : irc.insiderz.de - #defcon_one
Email : fiRE.ANGEl@gmx.net
Homepage : http://defcon-one.purespace.de/

[Notes]

This Addon uses the on Input event, which can cause trouble with other addons
like replacer, nickcompletor or something like this, that works with user
input. Sorry, but i can't fix that in many times - anyway feel free to contact
me about needed addons like this and i will help you if i can.

[Updates]

Version 1.1.2:

Work with my new addon 'defcon autocorrecter'
Some little performance optimizations

Version 1.1.0:

Some Fixes to get it work on mIRC 6.0

Version 1.0.1:

This Update fixes a litte bug in the nickstyler.

If you want to use <mid> at the beginning or the end it could happen, that not
all defined chars will be styled in short nicknames - this is fixed.

Version 1.0.0:

This was the first Final Version ...