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Ultra Hal 7.0 / A few questions of how to do things

« on: February 03, 2010, 07:22:46 am »

When i change shortcut.dat I get errors, and every time hal is restarted it is cleaned from my changes.

He does open things linked in star menue or desktop, but he cannot handle any commands about it.

I was able to write a .bat and place a link in the start meny, and there by open a program with command line extentions. But this doesn't work well in many programs and I have to place a new file for every single commandstring.

I'll go and have a look at Autoit.

Hal is a fairly complicated program, tough to write plugins and commands to, and there is no up to date help file. I'm starting to wonder if it had not done better as an open source project...

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / A few questions of how to do things

« on: February 01, 2010, 05:30:17 am »

1. How do I write commands to Hal?

For example: I have to say "open firefox facebook", but would want Hal to understand that this is equal to "open facebook". I have tried to explain it to him, and he does get it in theory but not for execution. Or I'd like to tell him that if I ask him to "open my novel", i'd like him to find and open the file c:/xxx

I'd like to be able to tell him that if I say XX then he simulate pressing ctrl+f/c/t and so on.

2. Is there a plugin for firefox and miranda? (and open office?)

Really this could be solved by the above, but perhaps there is something already finished?

For example: I would like Hal to tell me "Anna has sent you a message" for miranda, perhaps I could state: "read it for me" and I could tell him "open a message for Patrik".

In firefox, i'd like him to keep track of my bookmarks, giving me possibility to tell him to open any bookmarked webpage by stating it's bookmarked name. Or when i'm on a page, i'd like to tell him "dictate" and where the marker is placed he'd write what I say. Basic functions like ctrl-f i'd like him to do.

I do not at all like the automatic reading from clipboard, I copy and paste all the time and he disturbes me. What I would like is to highlight a text and ask him to "read this". I hoped for this from hal tts, but that didn't do it.

3. Can I get hidden interface?

I saw I can use all my great msagent's (like from 3d guild), and they do separate from the interface, but they are only visible when interface is open. I really like the standard of chatbubbles and "free" characters. Can I make my character always on top and the interface hidden untill I need it for writing?


Hal has such great potential, but some of the basic desktop assistant-functions are hard to find (or perhaps it dont work?). I'm not sure I like all this work to get him going from start, but I do see the need since he is quite brilliant. 30 days left on trial, and if I can get him to work as I like I will be so depending on him by then.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Several errors

« on: February 01, 2010, 05:03:46 am »

And the microphone turn itself on and of all the time, making both speaking and writing a pain. I have unchecked the "listen all the time"-box.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Several errors

« on: January 31, 2010, 06:48:26 pm »

Now Hal has a problem with writing to an activeX controller, and crashes once every hour or so...

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Several errors

« on: January 31, 2010, 02:18:58 pm »

I have swedish winXP.

Strange, but my second problem with installing was solved... by creating a user accound named users. I don#t get it, but it worked.

As a side question, can't I have the tts to read out loud highlighted words. Like on a webpage an such? I do not want to hear every time I c&p...

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Several errors

« on: January 31, 2010, 10:30:49 am »

I've just installed Hal assistant 6 trial to test it. There are some problems I don't understand:

- When starting Hal assistant there is two error messages that comes right after the starup screen:

Error 5:
Invalid procedure call or argument
Occured at line 1
in Ultra Hal Assistant: FrmAss.LoadSR

When clicking try again, it repeats, when clicking Ignore it says:

Error 430:
Class does not support Automation or does not support expected interface
Occured at line 3
in Ulta Hal Assistant: FrmAss.LoadSR

Then I try to install text-to-speech, but the installer gives me:

Error 1609.An error occured while applying security settings. Users is not a valid user or group.

And then the installation is aborted.

I would really like to be able to try out the program in full before considering to buy, but this is really frustrating and google dont give me answers that makes sense to me.. I've downloaded and installed both several times.

Would you please help me out as soon as possible?