Hehe. Are you making a education program? Because, I tried agents before on businesswork. In first time customers like it, but for a while after they think about it is annoying.


>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.