This is a VERY brief introduction to pop ups and what they can do to enhance your irc chats ... First and foremost, pop ups 
are best used with the chat client mIRC for Windows 95 - if you dont have it go to www.mirc.co.uk and download it NOW ...
its the best there is out there ... I know very little about pop ups for Pirch ... but these may be compatible.
PopUps are basically used as "shortcuts" so that you do not have to type the same things (warnings, greetings, hugs, kicks,
etc.) over and over again ... They are added into the mIRC programme and are quite useful for everyday chat. The pop ups I 
will be showing you are to be used mainly for greeting people and they are a collection of greetings for friends, lovers, 
and people in the channel. Popups can get very intense and colourful (thats why you need mIRC to see them - it translates 
code into colourful letters and symbols) and they CAN get annoying when they are multiple line greeetings - the pop ups 
here are never over 4 lines, and most are limited to one or two.. You need to add them into the mIRC programme by cutting 
and pasting them ... or setting up the mIRC to chose random greetings (more about that later) ... You cut and paste them 
into your nicklist pop up file which is located by going to the button which says PopUp Menus (7th from the left at the top 
of your screen) .. This will open up the actual script that runs mIRC - from there you need to go to the View pull down and
select NickList (or Query if you would like personal message pop ups) ... to the right of the View pulldown is PopUp and you
can use this to navigate within the nicklist pop ups and decide on where you would like to place your pop ups ... You then 
cut and paste from the file included in this zip directly into your nicklist popups. When you are done you hit OK at the 
bottom ... and youre ready to hug someone with colours! You go to a channel, highlight a nickname, and you will see in your 
pop ups a variety of choices - pick one and youve just hugged someone!
I have collected so many pop ups that I prefer to have random greetings - for friends, for lovers, for the giving of food 
and drink - and for insults, sisters quotes (for women and the male feminists amongst us) and you know youre addicted to irc
if ... quotes. Ive inclued some pop ups you can cut and paste directly into your nicklist but the majority of the ones in 
this zip are arranged for random usage  - and you need to put the following coding into your nicklist pop up file : 
(NOTE: PLEASE MAKE SURE THE RANDOM FILES GO INTO A FOLDER ENTITLED Random IN YOUR MIRC FOLDER - THAT IS THE PATH GIVEN FOR 
THE RANDOM POP UPS AND IF IT IS DIFFERENT YOU MUST CHANGE IT MANUALLY OR THIS WILL NOT WORK):

PopUps
.Random
..&Kewl:{ $read c:\mirc\Random\rpop.ini }
..-
..&Catty:/me $read c:\mirc\Random\Catty.txt
..Lovers:/me $read c:\mirc\Random\Lovers.txt
..Food:/me $read c:\mirc\Random\Food.txt
..Drink:/me $read c:\mirc\Random\Drinks.txt
..-
..&Funky:{ $read c:\mirc\Random\random.ini }
-
.Addicted
..ay:/say You Know Your Addicted To Irc If: $read c:\mirc\Random\addicted.txt
.-
.isters:/say 10isters' ayings: $read c:\mirc\Random\WomenQs.txt
.laps:/say $read c:\mirc\Random\slaps.txt
.Insults:/say $read c:\mirc\Random\insults.txt
.-

You have downloaded either the WomensPopUp.zip or the MensPopUp.zip - and they are slightly differently configured - they 
are sexually correct (She hugs or He slaps etc.) and configured for heterosexuals - if theres a desire I can make some pop 
ups for the gay community as well :o) You will find in this zip file the following files: Intro-PopUps.txt (youre reading it 
right now :oP), C-P-PopUps (to cut and paste directly into your mirc script) and 10 Random Pop Up files that need to go into
a folder called Random in your mIRC folder - rpop.ini, Catty.txt, Lovers.txt, Food.txt, Drinks.txt, random.ini, addicted.txt,
WomensQ.txt, slaps.txt and insults.txt - please note these are not the full files you would get if you had the SideWinder 
script - but rather a taste of what you could have if you did :o)

The final thing I guess I should address in this Intro is how do you make pop ups yourself? Well, its quite easy actually - 
and rather absorbing once you get the hang of it - but I would suggest you read your mIRC help files for a fully detailed 
lesson on how to create pop ups ... suffice to say these are some small pointers:
Control-K and a number and then text (or a design) creates coloured text - if you have mIRC 5.31 (and you should its great) 
whenever you type Control-K a tiny box will pop up showing you the number and the corresponding colour - here they are if 
youre lazy:

0- White, 1 - Black, 2 - Dark Blue, 3 - Dark Green, 4 - Red, 5 - Brown, 6 - Purple, 7 - Orange, 8 - Yellow, 9 - Light Green, 
10 - Aqua, 11 - Light Blue, 12 - Blue, 13 - Pink, 14 - Dark Grey, 15 - Light Grey.

When you type Control-K you will see a small box - that is the code for colour - you type the number you wish your text or 
design to be immediately after wards. If you would like background colour as well as text colour you do this by typing two 
numbers: Control-K 8,10 will give you yellow text with an aqua background - it will look like this: 8,10 text. If you do not
close the section with another Control-K the choice of aqua will remain your background for the entire pop up. Look at the 
pop ups included in this zip file to understand how these are used ... you will get the hang of it! There are a couple other 
codes you can use: Control-U for underlining and Control-B for boldface for example ... read your help files to learn more 
If you would like your design to incorporate someones nickname (as in a hug where you surround someones nick with pretty 
patterns or colours) you need to put the following into the pop up: $$1 - that tells mirc that whomever youre highlighting 
becomes $$1 and gets slotted into position. You must also preface your hug with either /say or /me - and if its going 
directly into the popup section of you nicklist it needs to be given a name suce as .HUGS: so a hug within the mirc pop up 
nicklist would look like this in code: .HUGS:/me 8,10 HUGS 9,6 $$1 8,10 HUGS  - its pretty easy isnt it? (The . 
represents one level in - I usually have PopUps on one line and then the hugs . or even .. levels in - you can understand 
this by actually seeing how it works) Some people prefer putting their popups in the alias file - that way they can type the
name assigned to the hug and a specific nick like /hug24 STEPPALICIOOUS but I personally think this is easier - if youd 
rather do it via alises read up and youll figure it out!!!

These PopUps are part of WiR VR 1.2  t by STEPPA - in my opinion the best script for mIRC there is 
(if youre lucky there might even be some version of it downloadable at this site in the future) and I would like to thank 
him for creating an environment which has made chatting a joy and a pleasure for me ... He created many of these pop ups and 
he is constantly coming up with new ideas and refinements. I made some of these as well ... some I collected from my friend 
Cheeky, and a couple I got off the net and re-did or used as is - TheCat's pages were one source of great pop up material ...
as well as #Rainbow Rooms home page. Mainly I went to the search engines and looked for popups+mirc+addons+hugs and browsed
the various pages and downloaded and tinkered and played.... 

Many of the love hugs were inspired by my Sayang :o))
If you need help or have questions come see us on irc.ichat.com #chatzone
Catty and STEPPA

