Improved alerts for Hexchat

• Hexchat version 2.10 or later
• Hexchat's Python 3 plugin. (Does not currently work Python 2.x). Use /py about to see if the plugin is installed and the version of Python it expects. The easiest way to get the plugin on Windows is to rerun the Hexchat installer.
• The correct version of Python for the Python 3 plugin. (Newer versions will not work.)
  • Hexchat 2.10.2 required Python 3.4.x
  • Hexchat 2.12.x requires Python 3.5.x

1. Save alerts.py to your Hexchat addons directory. On Windows, this is located at %appdata%\HexChat\addons.
   On Linux and OSX, this is probably ./config/hexchat/addons
2. Ensure the correct Python plugin is enabled in Hexchat. You can check with /py about.
   • If nothing shows up, the easiest way to fix this is to rerun the Hexchat installer and select to install the Python 3 plugin.
3. Type /py load alerts.py in Hexchat, or restart Hexchat and the script should automatically load.
4. Type /alerts help to see documentation for creating alerts, or read

• If Hexchat tries to play a sound from a highlight/PM at the same time this plugin does, Hexchat's sound will win. Turn off the highlight sounds in Hexchat if this is an issue.
• Sound is untested on anything but Windows. Sounds must be playable using Hexchat's /SPLAY command.

• Significantly cleaned up and tidied code, and probably introduced several bugs.
• Alerts can now be renamed using /alerts rename <oldname> <newname>. This does not change what text they match on.
• Alerts can now be moved to appear at a different position in the alert list using /alerts move <alert> {BEFORE <target>|AFTER <target>|FIRST|LAST.
  Since only the the first matching alert will trigger, this allows more fine-tuned control over which alert triggers.
• Added the ability to filter alerts by nickname/hostmask (see /ALERTS NICKLIST).

• Fix exception spam when receiving an empty message.

• Fix issue with notify looking at the wrong variable when comparing networks.

• Add /alerts colors which displays a sample of all of the colors by number.
• Add /alerts set copy ON|OFF|windowtitle to copy all triggering messages to a custom query window.
• Add /alerts focus ON|OFF|FORCE to focus the window that receives an alert. If enabled, Hexchat will switch to the target window. This will NOT steal focus from outside of Hexchat. It also will not change windows if you have text entered (to avoid accidentally finishing your sentence in the new window) unless you choose FORCE
• Add /alerts notify, which notifies you in your current window if receiving an alert in a different one.
• Fix several small bugs
• Found lots of new and exciting ways to crash Hexchat and hopefully worked around all of them.

• Lots of bugfixes and code tidying.
• Probably some new bugs.
• Support for background colors
• Support for sharing alerts in the active IRC channel/conversation with /alerts share
• Can now set multiple options simultaneously with one command.
• Revamped help system -- can /alerts help in addition to /alerts help by itself
• Use Hexchat's /SPLAY command to play sounds instead of our own solution.

Fixed issue with colors not being restored correctly.

Removed debug code, restructured some to attempt to stop Hexchat crashes, implemented /alerts copy