confused

Rhedd · Post by **Rhedd** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:44 pm

do I edit this or not in the eggdrop.h

#define HANDLEN 9   /* valid values 9->NICKMAX  */
#define NICKMAX 32  /* valid values HANDLEN->32 */

in the eggdrop.h it say leave it alone and edit in .conf . But yet when I do edit it like that in .conf it doesnt work and nicknames get truncated

Please help and I have been reading for awhile now on what to do and that is prob why i got confused . *shrug*

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:47 pm

A little forum search about this issue can give you great results.

Rhedd · Post by **Rhedd** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:01 pm

Sir_Fz wrote:A little forum search about this issue can give you great results.

did you not read what I wrote Sir ? It would have took just as much energy from you to just answer my question instead of going through all the trouble to link the search page to me , of which i am very familiar with , if you had of been paying attention to what I wrote you would have understood that whatI have searched and read has got me confused and was just wanting some verfication .

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:12 pm

I don't see how you got confused after search, setting nick-len in the .conf should fix the nick length problem (works fine for me) while handlen should be changed from source. If nick-len doesn't help, then try to edit it in source as well and see what happens.

Rhedd · Post by **Rhedd** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:36 pm

Because in the eggdrop.h file it says to leave it as is and edit the eggdrop.conf file . I just wanted to make sure before I changed anything in the eggdrop.h file .
so I would change this :

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#define HANDLEN 9   /* valid values 9->NICKMAX  */
#define NICKMAX 32  /* valid values HANDLEN->32 */

to this :

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#define HANDLEN 32   /* valid values 32->NICKMAX  */
#define NICKMAX 32  /* valid values HANDLEN->32 */

see that part also had me confused . Man I am just barely learning this stuff and running searchs for something I'm not sure about yet , just confuses me even more .

Basically this is where I got confused http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php? ... en+eggdrop
look at demonds post with the code from eggdrop.h

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:59 pm

Well, I agree with demond, I told you that setting nick-len should work fine as it did for me. Set it, restart your bot and see.

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:02 pm

Do not change anything in the source files unless you know why you want to make a change.

The Search function is there for a reason; use it and be amazed!

PS: Redefining 'HANDLEN' has nothing to do with the 'nick-len' setting in eggdrop.conf.

Rhedd · Post by **Rhedd** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:27 pm

Alchera wrote:Do not change anything in the source files unless you know why you want to make a change.

The Search function is there for a reason; use it and be amazed!

PS: Redefining 'HANDLEN' has nothing to do with the 'nick-len' setting in eggdrop.conf.

Ok first I know why I wanted to edit the source file .

Second I have already been pointed toward the search page once in this thread or don't you read ?

Third if it doesnt have anything to do with the nicklength , then why was I able to add a nick that is over 9 chars long after redefing handlen . When before even though i had nick-len set to 32 in eggdrop.conf it wouldnt let me add a user with over 9 chars in their name ?

T-Xorcist · Post by **T-Xorcist** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:00 am

Be a little more polite. People are trying to help here.

Rhedd · Post by **Rhedd** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:14 am

Is that what I got ? help ? Well from sir his 2nd and 3rd post were helpful but from alchera it wasnt helpful at all ! And you didnt help anything either . I'm sorry if I come off rather offensive but it agitates me when I am told to use the search function twice in one script when I have and will again .

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:58 am

I don't see how my first reply or Alchera's reply weren't helpful. You can't define what's considered help here, you don't have the right to do that since you haven't contributed any help for others on this forum. So don't tell us what helps and what doesn't.

HANDLEN is the handle's length in the userfile which has nothing to do with nick-len. If you said that was your problem from the first place then you would've found a solution from the first reply here, or even (Surprise) by search! (which confused you for no real reason).

The moral of this: If you explain your problem clearly, you get a clear answer. Next time tell us your problem, we don't want to know if you're confused (we already know that since you're seeking help). This topic is locked.