>>Okee, I got so far. In the command window i was able to create the object and make him do stuff.
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>>loDgs = createobject("Agent.Control.2")
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>>loDgs.Connected = .T.
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>>loDgs.Characters.Load("Merlin","c:\WINNT\MSAGENT\CHARS\MERLIN.ACS")
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>>loGuy = loDgs.Characters("Merlin")
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>>loGuy.Speak("This is a test")
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>>This works, but when I put this code in a prg and try to run it, nothin happens.... WTH?
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>>George
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>Hmm, this version works from .PRG fine.
>
>public lodgs
>loDgs = createobject("Agent.Control.2")
>loDgs.Connected = .T.
>loDgs.Characters.Load("Merlin","c:\WINNT\MSAGENT\CHARS\MERLIN.ACS")
>loGuy = loDgs.Characters("Merlin")
>loGuy.Show()
>loGuy.Speak("This is a test")
>
>Why do you want the Agent to be a separate object?
>Another idea - you can subclass the oleAgent and add it to _screen object (not tested yet)

I think what happened there - if you didn't have loDgs as public variable - it went out of scope just before Merlin was going to open his mouth. :)