Registered: Jun 2003
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I need to find the name and ip address and all that jazz for a script to process.

Is there a cleaner way to do it than using a Window.Command "xwhois " and then parsing that from the channel buffer?


klient rocks!

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> Stephen Wright

Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Warrensburg
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You could always use the Whois object. This will give you Whois.Address, which will return the address of the Nick. Rather than worrying about parsing.


Example:

code:

  ' Params: Server, Window, Params
   ' in an alias
   Dim objWhois
   Set objWhois = Whois.NewObject
   objWhois.Nickname = Params
   objWhois.Server = Server
   objWhois.OnFinish = "OnFinish" ' call back here
   objWhois.DataObject = Window
   objWhois.Lookup
   Set objWhois = Nothing


'In globals for OnFinish callback

Sub OnFinish(objWhois)

   WindowMgr.ActiveWindow.Display.Echo objWhois.Address
 
End Sub

Registered: Jun 2003
Location: federal way, soon hawaii
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gee,.. I feel like a bone head! Didn't see that in the object browser, and now that you told me,.. zowee!@ there it is. duh!!!

Maybe I should wait another day before posting at 4am,... I think my brain was running at 10% cpu. hehe

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> Stephen Wright

Registered: Jun 2003
Location: federal way, soon hawaii
Posts: 30

ok.. I finally got it to work,.. but this is wack!

What is this nonsense about the callback. If it's calling a function on completion then why is it in qoutes?

Why does the onfinish need to be in teh globals????? I just want to simply get the address of a whois, I really don't want to make jumps to global.

Say I use that, I'm stuck with the output only in the globals section, I tried and tried to get it to bypass this oncall nonsense but it simply outputs nothing if I don't use it.

This must be part of the learning curve, because right now I'm totally confused.

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> Stephen Wright

Registered: Sep 2002
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Well, you can't avoid the callback. Because the whois request gets sent to the server, and doesn't return immediatley from the server, the object has to call the callback when the request returns... Now, I'm not sure what you mean about outputting in the Globals section, but note that with the Whois object you can pass a DataObject which you can refer to in the callback. In jazper's example he passed the Window object, although not using it in the callback. A renewed version of the callback that outputs to the calling window would be:

code:
Sub OnFinish(objWhois)
   objWhois.DataObject.Display.Echo objWhois.Address
End Sub

Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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It is a function but yes, its in quotes. Thats because VBScript doesn't have a notion of function pointers like that. So, you give it the string name of the function; Klient knows how to call that.

It has to go elsewhere (e.g. into the globals) and cannot return right away because of the asychronous nature of the /whois request. Klient sends the request to the server; the server will (hopefully) reply, but it is not synchronous. It may take a second or two or more, or the server may have 20 other things to send you before it sends you the /whois reply (for example, channel messages that it needs to send to you).

Things that require going to the server for info are not synchronous in nature and therefore you cannot think of them in a synchronous sequential way (the way most of your code executes).

Anyway... hopefully by this time you've figured what all the callback stuff is about. It really is pretty easy You can also do it mIRC-style using various raw events that trigger when the /whois replies are received, but the Whois object or AddressFinder object tidy it up a bit more for you. You don't have to worry about what numeric replies are actually received. Either way its not sequential, but at least this way its still object-based.

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