<<Thank you Art! I will play with it a bit.>>
Do each of the add-ins run each time a sentence is entered into Hals input screen? If so I can see where installing a lot of add-ins without knowing what they are doing could waste a lot of system resources. I have a few questions about the AutoWikiKnowledge.uhp file.
Where does the variable/input 'InputString' come from?
Is this an input variable and if so what would it contain?
Is InputString the same as the MyInput variable?
Does HalXBrain.AppendFile do something different then using Scripting.FileSystemObject object to read and write to files?
I'm working through the code and rewriting it a bit in order to
understand what it is doing and make sure it won't steal to many system resources from my machine.
This is not finished code and has not been tested at all yet!
'---------------------------------------------------------------------
Rem Type=Plugin
Rem Name=Auto Wikipedia Knowledge
Rem Author=Gerald L. Blakley A.K.A OnTheCuttingEdge2005 -- Modified by forum user
Rem Host=All
'This sub setups the plug-ins option panel in Hal's options dialog
Sub OptionsPanel()
lblPlugin(0).Caption = "Just say: please study about the universe or please study about science, you can replace the word Universe or Science with any other word or noun, all information on the word is studied from the website Wikipedia"
lblPlugin(0).Move 120, 10, 3300, 1000
lblPlugin(0).WordWrap = True
lblPlugin(0).Visible = True
End Sub
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Definitions
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' MyInput : The user input?
' InputString : The user input again?
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Create a reference to the UltraHalAsst.Brain code library.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Set HalXBrain = CreateObject("UltraHalAsst.Brain")
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Determine if we want to process the user input by searching for a form
' of the desired command and parsing out the specific subject to study.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
WikiToLookup = HalBrain.SearchPattern(MyInput, "*PLEASE STUDY ABOUT THE *", 2)
If WikiToLookup = "" Then WikiToLookup = HalBrain.SearchPattern(MyInput, "*PLEASE STUDY ABOUT *", 2)
If WikiToLookup = "" Then WikiToLookup = HalBrain.SearchPattern(MyInput, "*DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE *", 2)
If WikiToLookup = "" Then WikiToLookup = HalBrain.SearchPattern(MyInput, "*DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT *", 2)
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' If the user input matches what we want to respond to process it.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If WikiToLookup <> "" Then
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Initialize variables
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
XDir = "C:Program FilesabawareUltra Hal Assistant 6\"
MyFile = "C:Program FilesabawareUltra Hal Assistant 6AutoText.brn"
SourcePage = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" & WikiToLookup
strNewContents = ""
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Clean the user input.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MyInput = HalXBrain.AlphaNumericalOnly(InputString)
'--------------------------------------------
' Read a page off the internet
'--------------------------------------------
objExplorer.Navigate(SourcePage)
Set objExplorer = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
Do Until objExplorer.ReadyState=4 : Loop
myText = objExplorer.Document.Body.innerText
Set objExplorer = Nothing
'--------------------------------------------
' Write internet page information to file
'--------------------------------------------
If Len(myText) > 0 then
If FileSys.FileExists(MyFile) = False Then
HalXBrain.AppendFile MyFile, "Start of Knowledge strings"
End If
HalXBrain.AppendFile MyFile, Trim(myText)
End If
'--------------------------------------------
' Respond to user
'--------------------------------------------
UltraHal = " I have looked up the study of " & WikiToLookup & ", Thanks. "
'--------------------------------------------
' The rest of the code below looks like it is attempting to
' cleanse the existing AutoText.brn file.
' It should be in a subroutine of it's own.
' I wouldn't want to clean the whole text file
' every time Hal get's a a new line of input.
'--------------------------------------------
'--------------------------------------------
' Read all of MyFile into variable strText
'--------------------------------------------
strText = ReadFile(MyFile)
'--------------------------------------------
' Clean file
'--------------------------------------------
If InStr(1, strText, " ", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then strText = CleanFile(MyFile)
'--------------------------------------------
' Write the cleansed text back to the file.
'--------------------------------------------
If Len(strText) > 0 Then WriteFile(MyFile, strText)
'--------------------------------------------
' Calculate the number of sentences based on the number of lines ending in periods.
' I would think this should also take into consideration question marks and exclamation points.
'--------------------------------------------
TextCount = StrCount()
'--------------------------------------------
' I haven't worked on this yet.
' it looks like it is attempting to compare each line in the
' file with the user input and then have Hal read back one of them.
' I didn't notice any feedback from Hal after the indicated he had studied the subject
' so I'm not sure what is going on here.
'--------------------------------------------
'--------------------------------------------
' For each sentenct retrieved from MyFile
'--------------------------------------------
For i = 1 To TextCount
ClipResX = HalXBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile(MyFile)
ClipResX = HalXBrain.AlphaNumericalOnly(ClipResX)
ClipResX = UCase(ClipResX)
ClipResX = Trim(ClipResX)
MyInputString = HalXBrain.AlphaNumericalOnly(InputString)
MyInputString = UCase(MyInputString)
MyInputString = Trim(MyInputString)
If InStr(1, ClipResX, MyInputString, vbTextCompare) > 0 And Len(ClipResX) > 50 Then
UltraHal = ClipResX
ElseIf Len(ClipResX) < 50 Then
UltraHal = UltraHal
End If
Next
End If
'********************************************************************
'*
'********************************************************************
Function StrCount()
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:Program FilesabawareUltra Hal Assistant 6AutoText.brn", ReadVariable())
strText = objTextFile.ReadAll
objTextFile.Close
Do While InStr(1, strText, " ")
strText = Replace(strText, " ", " ")
Exit Do
Loop
aWords = split(strText, ". ")
StrCount = Ubound(aWords) + 1
End Function
'********************************************************************
'*
'********************************************************************
Sub WriteFile(sFilePathAndName,sFileContents)
Const ForWriting =2
Set oFS = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFSFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(sFilePathAndName,ForWriting,True)
oFSFile.Write(sFileContents)
oFSFile.Close
Set oFSFile = Nothing
Set oFS = Nothing
End Sub
'********************************************************************
'*
'********************************************************************
Function ReadFile(sFilePathAndName)
dim sFileContents
Set oFS = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If oFS.FileExists(sFilePathAndName) = True Then
Set oTextStream = oFS.OpenTextFile(sFilePathAndName,1)
sFileContents = oTextStream.ReadAll
oTextStream.Close
Set oTextStream = nothing
End if
Set oFS = nothing
ReadFile = sFileContents
End Function
'********************************************************************
'*
'********************************************************************
Sub CleanFile(sFilePathAndName)
'--------------------------------------------
' 1. Read a line and removing preceding and trailing spaces.
' 2' Append vbCrLf to the line and then append it to the new text variable strNewContents.
'--------------------------------------------
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Const ForAppending = 8
Const TristateUseDefault = -2
Const TristateTrue = -1
Const TristateFalse = 0
Dim oFS
Dim oFile
Dim oStream
Dim sRecord
Dim strNewContents
Set oFS = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFile = oFS.GetFile(sFilePathAndName)
Set oStream = oFile.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, TristateUseDefault)
Do While Not oStream.AtEndOfStream
sRecord=oStream.ReadLine
'--------------------------------------------
' Clean the text
'--------------------------------------------
sRecord = Trim(sRecord)
'--------------------------------------------
' Append to new contents string
'--------------------------------------------
If Len(sRecord) > 0 Then strNewContents = strNewContents & sRecord & vbCrLf
Loop
oStream.Close
CleanFile = strNewContents
End Sub
