Question

im currently trying to make a simple IRC Gui Client. Im using the SmartIrc4net as a base, as it seems to be the most supportive out of all of them, found here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8323/SmartIrc4net-the-C-IRC-library

Now What I am having problem with is the action commands. For example to make yourself an oper, you would type

/oper admin password or to changehost, would be /sethost mynewhost

My problem is that when I pass that value through a TextBox, instead of making me admin, or changing my host. My input just gets displayed as text in the chat.

Here is my code:

        string[] serverlist;
        serverlist = new string[] { "mydomain.com" };
        int port = 6667;
        string channel = "#MyChannel#";
        try
        {
            irc.Connect(serverlist, port);
            irc.Login("SmartIRC", "SmartIrc4net Test Bot");
            irc.RfcJoin(channel);

                irc.SendMessage(SendType.Message, channel, "/oper admin mypass");
                irc.SendMessage(SendType.Action, channel, "/sethost mynewhost");

            irc.Listen();

But when I pass those values, all it does is just display what I typed in the chat, without actually making me oper, or changing my sethost.

Is there anyway that I could actually make it pass commands through to the IRC server, instead of just displaying the raw text on the chat?

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Answer 1

This is because you are explicitly sending a message. IRC itself has no notion of /commands, this is done all in the client. What you are doing is to just send a message with a specific text that happens to start with /. I.e. what the server receives is

PRIVMSG #channel :/oper admin mypass

instead of

OPER admin mypass

You just need to figure out a way of sending raw IRC commands to the server. The page you linked to doesn’t offer much documentation on that part, though. But judging from the layers this should be in either Layer 2 or Layer 1.