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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Script takes longer than expected error

« on: September 04, 2003, 01:14:57 pm »

I'm running on a Sony picturebook, 600mhz 256mb ram. Using haptak figures in hal, I am getting a popup window while hal is processing a sentence. The popup reads "The Script is taking longer than expected to complete" There are 2 buttons beneath that which read, cancel and continue. If I hit continue, within a few seconds hal responds to my sentence. This is occuring every 4 or 5 minutes on my system.
If you leave open the popup hal will finally respond anyway and the popup goes away. Can the popup be disabled or the timeout extended?

Glenn

Forgot to mention I'm running XP proffesional

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / What's for lunch

« on: September 02, 2003, 05:09:54 pm »

Where does hal call the date/time function? Can that variable be entered into memory, or or called and compared?

While editing the pesonal question brain file created in Larry's script, I happened to think that it would be easy to add a subroutine so if a person asks hal for example "what are you having for lunch" the script would create a keyword by appending for example "lunch" with a random number from 1 to 10 and then searching a lunch brainfile for let's say "lunch7" and return whatever lunch number 7 might happen to be.

Now if I take that one step further, if I can pull in the day/date and can compare it, then I could have for example "thursdaylunch7" or "tuesdaylunch3" and one step further, comparing the time can return either "thursdaylunch7" or "thursdaydinner7" depending upon the time of day. All we need is the ability to access the time and date and compare it.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / We want 5!...We want 5!...We Want 5!!............

« on: August 13, 2003, 11:54:45 am »

Ok, I want 5.0, I'll take a beta, an alpha with a high grade point average :-) something!, anything! Can we at least have an updated release schedule?
thanks!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / people putty plugin

« on: July 29, 2003, 04:29:44 pm »

I know that when 5.0 is released there is supposed to be support for the Haptek people putty characters. Back in February, it was posted that a plugin would be available in about a month to give that support to 4.5 Was that plugin finished? Is it available?

Thanks

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Psychic updates

« on: July 29, 2003, 04:26:44 pm »

Has anyone noticed that when you have check for automatic updates enabled every so often the message appears that "new program(s) found updating help files" I've noticed that message every so often, but what caught my eye is that I get that message from hal even when there is no lan connection! Hal must be receiving pyschic updates, it gives a whole new meaning to "wireless networking" It also casts doubts on the credibility of "automatic updates" and makes you wonder what hal is really doing when it is supposedly checking for updates. [:0]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / can't teach past dates

« on: April 21, 2003, 03:33:35 pm »

I am having trouble teaching ultra hal past dates, if I enter the following declarative: "Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730", ultra hal returns: "Charles messier was born on Thursday, June 26, 2003 . I'll Remind you when this time is near. " how can I get hal to accept and remember past dates?