We downloaded bunch of chars yesterday. I'm just concern, if they clatter my disk. My son likes them and asked for more <g>

>You can found thousand of chars from google. I found a lot a long time ago but I don't have links anymore.
>
>>Dan,
>>
>>Thanks a lot. On my home computer it worked after I un-installed MS Speech Recognition that I installed for some unknown reason.
>>
>>Now, I have two questions:
>>1) Where can I find more free chars besides 4 standard? (I showed it yesterday to my son and he wanted more chars).
>>
>>2) How can I make the char to interact with the user, in other words, ask a question and receive an answer?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>>Naomi -
>>>
>>>Here's a stand along prg that works for me. You will need Peedy and Genie installed.
>>>
>>>

>>>public oAgent,oPeedy,oGenie
>>>
>>>oAgent = createobject("agent.control.2")
>>>oAgent.connected = .t.
>>>
>>>oAgent.Characters.Load("Peedy","Peedy.acs")
>>>oAgent.Characters.Load("Genie","Genie.acs")
>>>
>>>opeedy = oAgent.Characters('Peedy')
>>>ogenie = oAgent.Characters('Genie')
>>>opeedy.show
>>>lWait = opeedy.moveto(200,400)
>>>
>>>oGenie.wait(lWait)
>>>oGenie.moveto(400,400)
>>>lWAit = oGenie.show
>>>
>>>
>>>oPeedy.wait(lWait)
>>>oPeedy.speak("Hello")
>>>oPeedy.play("gestureleft")
>>>oPeedy.speak("Allow me to introduce my good friend, Genie.")
>>>
>>>oPeedy.play("lookleft")
>>>lWait = oPeedy.speak("Hello Genie")
>>>
>>>oGenie.wait(lWait)
>>>oGenie.play("lookright")
>>>lWait = ogenie.speak("And hello to you too Peedy")
>>>
>>>oPeedy.wait(lWait)
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>***************************************************************
>>>>>>Ok, I think I made a complete mess of my PC. I downloaded several files from the link you send me. Now

>>>>>>SET Classlib TO (HOME()+"ffc\_agent.vcx") addi
>>>>>>PUBLIC msagent
>>>>>>
>>>>>>msagent=CREATEOBJECT("_agent")
>>>>>>msagent.load("merlin","merlin.acs")
>>>>>>msagent.setActiveAgent("merlin")
>>>>>>msagent.show(680,400)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>msagent.activeagent.LanguageID="&H0409"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>*msagent.play("greet")
>>>>>>msagent.speak("Hello Naomi")

>>>>>>
>>>>>>the agent appears, but it doesn't speak and instead of Hello Naomi shows just Hello. Nick's FoxSpeaker also stopped working...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I never installed Foxspeaker. You don't need Foxspeaker. I can make spoken agents with only these lines upper.
>>>>>
>>>>>Try this link. The agent in this link speaks too.
>>>>>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MicrosoftAgent~WIN_COM_API
>>>>
>>>>It doesn't, since it's not installed on my work PC.