Robert Small, The blog thereof.

Another BottleCap release candidate, this one is Windows compatible out of the box. Just remember to edit bcsettings.py. Get the update and please report any bugs here.

Kind regards, Robert.

I’ve just uploaded another RC. I advise updating as it has a few bugfixes, especially if you’re on windows. Tonnes of work to make pylint happy and adding of docstrings, expect another release soon as I change and add things. I still have to fix the clones module but I’ve made the highlight ban code actually work.

Have fun, stay safe, and feel free to tell me if there’s anything wrong, remember to check the official channel for updates! irc.v8d.org #BottleCap

Kindest regards at this festive season, Robert Small.

I’ve released some more code, it provides a few new features:

• HTTP update checking (now threaded)
• timed unbanning and a *better* way of banning
• it has the beginnings of the new correction script
• a few other minor changes

I’ll leave it as such, do join the channel (irc.v8d.org #BottleCap) and ask more questions. Since rc1 I’ve added a few little things to allow windows to function better with BottleCap, I’ve not yet given it a full testing, let’s hope it all works soon.

Kind regards, Robert.

People often ask me why I wrote BottleCap, this normally comes immediately after asking what BottleCap is. I might as well answer both. BottleCap is a small modular Python script designed to replace or create a few features I found either partially or completely lacking in XChat. It was primarily designed for Linux but should work on any OS providing it has XChat and python. It provides a fair few things and is in slow development. Some of the features are:

• Spelling and grammar correction
• Toaster pop-ups
• Highlight handling
• Auto-away and auto-return
• Automatic invite handling
• Regexp banning.

It’s a useful script and to my knowledge there are no ways to exploit it. I’ve mainly written it on request or as I’ve needed it, the regexp banning module is in direct result of an attack levied at a channel I’m op’d in. The attack used stupidly easy to spot nicknames which were rather hard to ban, a regexp did the job wonderfully.

Spelling and grammar correction is mainly to help me when I’m reading certain channels I moderate which are mostly used by children, it takes the strain off reading and deciding what they’re talking about!

There’s more information on this page (http://www.v8d.org/wiki/index.php?title=BottleCap) and please as in #BottleCap on irc.v8d.org for a copy and help getting it working.

If you’ve used BottleCap, or use BottleCap now, please post, I’d love to have a few ‘BottleCap changed my life!’ comments. Any suggestions would be great too.

Kind regards, Robert.