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		General
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This plugin collects infomation about sonique/the current playing song
and outputs that info to either a file or directly to mirc. Also its
fairly flexible in doing all this.


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	Install
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The zip contains a few files needed to register
everything.  If running batch files is too much
for you to handle, then don't bother.

1) Unzip the files to your sq2 directory
2) run the file reg_now_playing.bat
3) open sonique2 and proceed to use.



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	Configuration
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You will find all the configurations under
Settings->Effects->Now Playing screen.
Here you can enable/disable the entire plugin
enabled disable writing to a file
choose either outputting this file as ascii(default) or with unicode encoding
choose the location to output this file
choose what formatting to use in the output file

enable/disable sending to mirc
choose what to output to mirc

Hopefully the default formatting will give you hints on how this works...

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Tips for use in mirc
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mirc CAN NOT directly read unicode encoded files.. prolly be best to uncheck the option in
the now playing settings screen.

in mirc(atleast in 6.12) click Tools->Script Editor
here you should already be on the remote tab, if not.. do so
you can add the line:
on *:TEXT:!s2:*:/describe $nick $read(c:\program files\sonique2\sq2playing.txt)
where c:\program files\sonique2\sq2playing.txt is the location of the file you are outputting
via the sonique2 now playing plugin
now when anyone says !s2 in mirc your will give an action to the user that typed it your song
info
!s2 can be changed to something else, but wouldnt it be nicer to leave it as standard so that
when your in a channel all s2 users respond to the one command?


now you can click on the aliases tab and enter:
/s2 {
  /say $read(c:\program files\sonique2\sq2playing.txt)
}
where c:\program files\sonique2\sq2playing.txt is where the output file is..
now when YOU type /s2 you will give the action of the song your listening to.
/s2 can be changed to anything that suits you.


Give these two a test to better see what they do if you still dont understand..

To Add colour to your outputs for mirc use
15
that lil square is very important!! 15 is a colour code anything between 00-15 is valid
keep to two digit(05 vs 5) for colour codes to prevent confusion with other numbers in your
line.
the other good one is bold:

that lil square will toggle bold on and off.

A good example of this is:
/echo 14 -a 14Sonique %x »» [#%r][12%a - %t01[10%l %y01]14] 14{01%d %v %bKbps %e %sKHz %h14}
this will add colours and bold to the default format(it is infact what I use)

Also to note is /echo 14 -a is mirc commands.. echos with colour 14 to the current active window.
You can also do /msg and other such mirc commands (read up more on mirc to find out more)


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Notes
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Also in this zip is a script to unregister plugins from mantis.  
It takes a dll name and matches it in the conf file. Then removes the lines related to 
it (using the plugin's guid). Though the script backs up the file first, still use it 
with caution as it could mess up your sonique2 install.