.status vs [status] vs state of a channel

[ZarTek-Creole]

in .status we can see the status of the channels. If the show is pending, if the eggdrop is on it etc. In the help, [status] says to be the equivalent, but no information is given for the channels.

I tried the get channel and the info channel, it doesn't matter any status information. Is there a way to know the status of a channel from TCL?

[ZarTek-Creole]

I finally opted for this method:

foreach C_NAME [channels] {
	set B_MODE ""
	if { [botisop $C_NAME] }		{ set B_MODE "@" }
	if { [botishalfop $C_NAME] }	{ set B_MODE "%" }
	if { [botisvoice  $C_NAME] }	{ set B_MODE "+" }
	if { [botonchan   $C_NAME] }	{ set COLOR "\00310"; } else { set COLOR "\00304"; }
	lappend LIST_CHANNELS "${COLOR}${B_MODE}${C_NAME}"
	unset B_MODE COLOR C_NAME
}

I still think .status is more complete than [status] maybe some work should be done for an update.

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[vanosg]

The trouble we have here is the potential to break API, since status is returning a string- in theory, people could be expecting that specific fixed-value string to come back for a script. We could either make a new command that uses dicts and is more extendible, or wait for 2.0 to just re-do this 'better'.