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Dart Raiden at 22:09, 2 March 2023

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	Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see <tt>[AutoExec]</tt> section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.		Put code to <tt>autoexec_<anyname>.ini</tt> (name template can be changed, see <tt>[AutoExec]</tt> section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.

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Dart Raiden at 14:25, 2 March 2023

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	Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see "[AutoExec]" section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.		Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see <tt>[AutoExec]</tt> section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.

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Dart Raiden at 16:26, 31 July 2020

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	~~AutoExec~~ is a system for batch addition of multiple settings to the database. The goal is to provide a flexible ability for bulk-setting of many database settings.		Autoexec is a system for batch addition of multiple settings to the database. The goal is to provide a flexible ability for bulk-setting of many database settings.

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	Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see "[AutoExec]" section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.		Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see "[AutoExec]" section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.

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	Also see [[Mirandaboot.ini]] for additional autoexec-related settings.		Also see [[Mirandaboot.ini]] for additional autoexec-related settings.
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Dart Raiden at 16:15, 30 July 2020

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	Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see "[AutoExec]" section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.		Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini (name template can be changed, see "[AutoExec]" section of [[Mirandaboot.ini]]) and place that file to Miranda root folder.

			Also see [[Mirandaboot.ini]] for additional autoexec-related settings.
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Dart Raiden at 16:13, 30 July 2020

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	AutoExec is a system for batch addition of multiple settings to the database. The goal is to provide a flexible ability for bulk-setting of many database settings.		AutoExec is a system for batch addition of multiple settings to the database. The goal is to provide a flexible ability for bulk-setting of many database settings.

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	Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini and place that file to Miranda root folder.		Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini and place that file to Miranda root folder.
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Dart Raiden at 15:07, 30 July 2020

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	AutoExec is a system for batch addition of multiple settings to the database. The goal is to provide a flexible ability for bulk-setting of many database settings.		AutoExec is a system for batch addition of multiple settings to the database. The goal is to provide a flexible ability for bulk-setting of many database settings.

			Put code to autoexec_<anyname>.ini and place that file to Miranda root folder.
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			<pre style="overflow:auto;height:400px;">
			;This is a sample file showing how the autoexec system works

			;This file does not become part of the database - it is only read
			;and imported by Miranda, then discarded.

			;Short intro to the capabilities of the Miranda database:
			;The database stores 4 different types of information:
			; 1) Contacts. These are merely structural, they don't actually store any
			; info themselves. There is a 'me' contact and zero or more real contacts.
			; Each contact contains settings and events.
			; 2) Settings. These are quadruplets: module name, setting name, data type,
			; data value. More on these later because that's what all this is about.
			; 3) Events. History events and suchlike.
			; 4) Module names. An internal structure for space efficiency. Forget this, I
			; just included it for completeness.

			;The autoexec system is for changing settings belonging to the 'me' contact,
			;because that's where all the preferences are stored. Nothing else can be
			;altered using this file.

			;You should probably use DbEditor++ because that can display and change all
			;the settings in the database (including those belonging to the other contacts).

			;More on those quadruplets:
			;Consider, for example, the background bitmap of the contact tree. If you look
			;in the options you'll see that there are three basic settings controlling it:
			;Whether to use that or a solid color, the filename to use, and a mass of
			;check boxes.
			;These three categories map on to three database settings that you can see
			;with database editor.
			;"CLC" is the module name, and "UseBitmap", "BkBitmap", "BkBmpUse" are the
			;setting names.
			;Clicking on the "UseBitmap" setting you'll see the final two parts of the
			;setting: type and value. In this case type is a byte, and the value is 0 or 1.

			;Everything is case sensitive, and the type of the setting is just as important
			;as its name. If you give a setting a type other than that which Miranda
			;expects things will go badly. There are five different types: byte, word,
			;double-word are the three numeric ones of various magnitudes; strings for
			;textual data; and blobs for variable-length binary data.

			;The encoding of "BkBmpUse" will probably have you baffled, so you can either
			;peruse clcopts.c to figure out what's going on or, far easier, set what you
			;want and just copy the value down.

			;Note about security:
			;This file clearly makes it possible to sneak in a change to a user's ICQ
			;login server, for instance, while you change their color scheme. This could
			;be used to glean UINs and passwords without their knowledge.
			;Miranda has security in place that means the user will be warned before any
			;changes are made to the settings of modules that are not known to be safe.
			;The default settings and how to change them are documented in mirandaboot.ini

			;Note that some parts of Miranda won't notice changes on-the-fly, so it will
			;be necessary to restart Miranda before the changes take effect.

			;The example that follows, then, is a heavily annotated script to provide a
			;new background bitmap for the contact list and set the text color to yellow.
			;It's assumed that you have packaged background.bmp in a .zip with this file
			;and provided the user with instructions to dump both files in their Miranda
			;directory.

			[CLC] ;settings from here to the next change will apply to the "CLC" module.

			;Assign the byte 1 to the setting "UseBitmap". b stands for byte.
			;There must be no space around the equals sign or after the b.
			UseBitmap=b1

			;s stands for string.
			BkBitmap=sbackground.bmp

			;w is for word. The 3 I just copied out of database editor. It means stretch to
			;width and height.
			BkBmpUse=w3

			;Font0 is the 'standard contacts' setting on the list text options page.
			;Font0Col, therefore, is the color setting of that font.
			;d is for dword.
			;The 0x prefix is signifying this number as hexadecimal. You can also prefix
			;0 to use octal, and negative numbers work too.
			;ffff00 you will recognize as yellow from your HTML experience.
			Font0Col=d0xffff00

			;--end of example--

			;There are two data types that haven't been used here: blob and delete.
			;Delete is easy: just use e.g., "BkColour=l" (that's a lowercase L). This example
			;causes the background solid color to be the same color as the users choice
			;for 3D objects facing straight on, e.g., most of the taskbar.
			;Blobs are of the form "Font=n03 f5 2a" where those are hexadecimal pairs
			;representing each byte to set.

			;The final thing to note is that there are settings that it is possible to
			;change using this file, but that you'll wreck consistency if you do so. It's
			;obvious the settings where this is the case, the typical example being
			;the whole CListGroups module. Luckily you don't want to change any of the
			;settings where this is a problem.

			;--Module and setting deletion--

			;This module will be completely removed with all the settings it contains.
			;Starting from 0.95.12 you can also use "-" instead of "?".
			[?YAPP]

			;Only this particular setting will be removed.
			[Tipper]
			Border=-
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Dart Raiden at 15:01, 30 July 2020

2020-07-30T15:01:47Z

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