Features

Introduction

IC is supposed to be a tool for all seasons:

W - each saved world has its own settings
G - global settings
P - plugin specific settings

Details

Triggers

IC monitors all incoming data a line at a time. After all active plugins have looked at the line and rejected it, IC checks it against it's trigger list. If a match is found, the associated trigger is run.

Triggers can either be:

• A simple text match
• A regular expression (regex)

A regex has a higher overhead in processing time, so simple text triggers should be used where possible.

Actions that can be triggered are:

• Run a named Macro
• Insert text into the keyboard input stream
• Invoke one of IC's builtin functions
• Send a line of text to the remote world

Keyboard Shortcuts

TBD

Timers

Timers are activities that happen at specific intervals or times without the user's intervention.

There are two types of timer:

• One-shot. the trigger runs just once, after a predifed time interval has expired.
• Repeating. The timer repeats regularly at a pre-defined frequency.

Actions that Timers can trigger are:

• Run a named Macro
• Insert text into the keyboard input stream
• Invoke one of IC's builtin functions
• Send a line of text to the remote world

Text Highlighting

TBD

Configurable Editors

TBD

Other features

Special Text Formatting

When defining text to be sent to a world or to be injected in the keyboard input stream, you can use special formatting to get IC to substitute certain information at run time.

Special formatting is introduced by the percent symbol (%). A single character follows which tells IC what substitution to make.

Currently supported substitutions are: | Formatting | Replace With | Context(s)| |:---------------|:-----------------|:| | %% | A single percent character | All | | %h | The host name of the world | Connected | | %p | The network port number of the world | Connected | | %w | The name of the world | Connected to a saved world |