I was tinkering around at lunch today, and decided that I was tired of using copy-n-paste from the URL bar of Voyager to paste into AmIRC. So.... I added a button to do it for me. Here is what I did:

Open VPrefs.
Select ToolBar.
Create Button (select an image, I used Devo/A.img)
From the Chooser Gadget, I selected "ARexx".

In the text field, I added the following line (including the quotes and double-quotes):
"address AMIRC.1 'say %w'"

Then, I saved the changes.

Blam! Now, when I find an interesting URL, I just hit the button on the toolbar, and the url is sent to AmIRC! (I love one-liners!)

Whoa.. That's clever one.

Thank you joannak!

Just pointing out, the URL will always go to *first* opened AmIrc, if you want to get it to second one, replace AMIRC.1 with AMIRC.2 etc.

Can this work with IProwser too?

I've gotten it close to working with IBrowse. I was trying to set it up under a "fastlink" button, but it keeps sending the literal %u to amirc instead of the url.

Same for A-Web:

Create script, that contains following lines:
/* It's nice thing to comment code, really... */
OPTIONS RESULTS
PARSE ARG url

ADDRESS AMIRC.1
'say 'url



Then select GUI settings, and create entry for key, popup menu, menu or button:

Enter following line:
Run <your script> %u

(And don't forget enter after changing)

Works at least for me

Very nice. This script should also work for IBrowse. This could be added to check the port-number of amirc that is running...

/**/
getirc:
ports = SHOW('P')
PARSE VAR ports dummy 'AMIRC.' portnr .
ADDRESS VALUE 'AMIRC.' || portnr
options results
'info base'
foundhost=result
/*say PORTNR
amirchost='AMIRC.' || PORTNR*/

return(foundhost)

Note1: if this code is expanded a bit, it can be used to show multiple instances of AMIRC if they are running. Then, a requester could be used to duplicate the message across several copies of AmIRC, or a choice thereof!

Note2: it isn't perfect, as it was originally designed for aweb (can't remember the original author.. erm, Don Cox maybe?) Anyway, it will return foundhost being AMIRC.1 or AMIRC.2 or whatever it finds first in the list of ports

I always prefered doing such stuff from within the irc client.

/purl aweb.1
prints out to public the url that is open in aweb.1

/url
takes last url in the url log and pops it up in browser

/urls
list out last 10 urls that has been mentioned

/url <n>
pop up url number <n> in previous list in browser

/curl <n>
downloads the url number <n> to ram:

etc etc...