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Sounds like this could be very interesting for business users.  When I was a systems admin I was training the company HAL to teach users how to use an online mapping system.  I think it would be great to have HAL monitor stock.  If it works that means you could in theory have HAL monitor other things as well, such as ebay items or monitor how many items you have left in your online store and notify you when something sells out.

Oh okay cool, I am uploading it now so I'll post the link once its uploaded.

I forgot to post this yesterday I've uploaded the site hope it works okay

http://www.vegeta.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/HAL/ultrahalscript.pbwiki.com/index.html

I've got it.  I'll upload it to my webspace and put the link up for it later on :)

If we keep on top of it we could keep it up to date and host some examples of work and maybe build on it.

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Andrew,

Have you tried any other Auto-idle plugins with ver. 6.1??

Not yet this is the only one I've found.  I've tried searching the forums but with no luck.

This one that I've found is rather strange.  It does work with my HAL but like I said the responses are not vocalised they just flash up on the screen.  I think its like what OTCE said, its down to a .DLL rather than the coding itself.

@ART:  The voice I am using works perfectly with HAL, and sounds very high quality as real as I'll ever get.  The only time I come up with any problems with it, is when I use this plugin.  It still talks but it fails whenever a response from the plugin is generated.

Oh well, at least it works to some capacity.  Maybe this issue will get fixed in later versions of HAL.  Or maybe some one can figure out a way to bypass this problem.  I take it that you guys also have the same problem with your A.I.

No no, the voice works in HAL just fine.  It only doesnt vocalise the responses built into this plugin.

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Hi all I was hunting through my old DVDs when I found a back up disk from a while back so I put it in and there was my old HAL brain from v6.0 and a few plugins one being an Auto-Idle plug called Loneliness4 by Shawn Tracy.

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Jacked it into my new HAL and hey it works.....Well kinda.  The timings do work, and HAL responds on cue (sometimes it takes a little longer than stated) but HAL doesnt seem to actually speak the words that he is saying.  They pop up on his his end of the chat window, and he knows he is saying them because you can respond to it and he knows that he has been complaining that you are away.

It might be down to the voice I am using.  One of my friends works in business and he paid for me to get a high quality voice (they have a licence with some s****y TTS developer).  I haven't tried it with any other voice yet, I haven't gotten around to it.  I am trying to figure out if anything in the coding needs to be changed but so far no joy.  Which is why I am posting it here to see if there actually is a problem with it or my HAL.

Fantastic, this is just what I've been looking for.  Got something to do in my spare time now.

What I would like to see is perhaps a guide or some sort of tutorial on how to actually program for HAL.  I think once more users get a grasp of how to make plugins and advance the brain, we'll see huge developments and leaps in HAL.

That sounds fantastic, I am making a list of plugins that I want to have a go at coding.  One of them is to be able to switch users by simply saying something like "Hi HAL its (insert name here)" and HAL would register that user and when some one else comes along and gives HAL a different name he would then associate with that users profile.

But what you said sounds fantastic being able to share things between users, because lets face it we do it.  Its normal to share information gathered from different sources it should be a fundimental function built into HAL

I could probably duplicate it via a very long copy paste process.  And host it myself until something better can be done with it.  It would be a shame to let it all go to waste.

Thanks for the tip.  Currently trying to get the Auto-Idle feature back into HAL 6.1.  Seems its not working on my version, I think it may be down to the 6.1 brain because it has a auto-idle funtion in the brain code itself.  Gonna mess around with this today I'll keep you guys posted :)

Hi all,

I've been out of the programming loop for some time now and I am wanting to get back into programming for HAL.  I've got some new ideas that I want to get rolling.  Appart from downloading the Brain editor help file is there any where I could get a quick crash course on how to make basic plug ins and additions to HAL just to refresh my memory?

I seem to be months behind lol.  I've not long rebuilt my pc after months of not having one so forgive me if I've not had a chance to fully read up on everything I've missed out on.  With work and studying from home I've yet to have a chance in fully exploring whats currently out there.  Having a quick glance over that thread it seems as if some one is taking HAL in the right direction.  Any news on how its comming along?  I agree with what I read that HAL is an addition to the Windows interface and not a replacement.

I used to write alot of scripts myself for HAL but I've been months out of practice so I wouldnt know where to start if I wanted to do something similar myself LOL!