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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Documentation and some help please
« on: October 14, 2006, 06:02:34 pm »
May not be quite what you want but here is a simple plugin that will open the pages for you.
Just type OPEN HOTMAIL or OPEN YAHOO MAIL





Download Attachment: webmail.uhp
1.48 KB

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Selecting & playing music with HAL
« on: October 14, 2006, 04:07:21 pm »
Tony,I've had a play and put my playlist in the same folder structure as yours.
I did find I had to resave my playlist from inside media player first otherwise I got the playlist not found message so try opening media player,selecting your Tony playlist and resaving it as Tony1.Then open Hal and type Play Playlist Tony1
Attached is the modified plugin I used.

Download Attachment: music1.uhp
2.71 KB


Holllywood that should be
Play Playlist video
Might be worth resaving the playlist as above if it doesn't work.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Selecting & playing music with HAL
« on: October 13, 2006, 01:43:40 pm »
I haven't tested it with Media Player 11 but it works ok in Media player 10.
I think the problem might be that you entered Play Tony. It should be Play Playlist Tony.
Hope that helps.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Selecting & playing music with HAL
« on: October 12, 2006, 01:54:38 pm »
Here's a conversion to a HAL6 plugin I made of Hal5 script by Vonsmith.
File extension should be .uhp. If it downloads with a .txt extension just rename it.
Place it in the UltraHal Assistant 6 folder and select it from the brain panel in the Options menu.
Just say to Hal
Play Playlist name of playlist or Play the song name of song
If your music files aren't stored at the default location,you'll need to edit the path in the plugin.


Download Attachment: music.uhp
2.73 KB

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Linux Operating System
« on: August 24, 2006, 01:25:44 pm »
It's also possible to get a bootable CD version of Linux for those who want to try it without losing their Windows setup. It's also handy to have if Windows becomes corrupted to the point of not being able to repair itself or the hard disk has damaged sectors as Linux is less fussy about the state of a disk and may still be able to read the contents allowing anything important to be backed up before reformatting.

Knoppix is one I've tried. Available here as a free .ISO download to burn to CD including OpenOffice and other stuff.
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html


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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Skins
« on: July 19, 2006, 06:34:16 pm »
Thanks for that. Nice work.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Backing up Hal
« on: June 17, 2006, 04:06:43 pm »
There seem to be a few topics on here about backing up Hal,so here's a system I've just started using.
There's an online backup site called Mozy that gives 2GB of free storage and synchronising software that runs in the background (It can be suspended).All you need to do is select your Hal folder and add the important files, halbrain.db,hal6.uhp and any plugins and it will automatically upload them when your system is idle or on demand.I've also set it to backup the appropriate Haptek folders for backgrounds and skins.For some reason the latest version of the software treats Program Files as a hidden folder so needs the appropriate box ticking in the settings.Whenever it does a backup it still keeps the old version for 30 days so no problem if an upload happens just after something gets changed by mistake.
Downside is they require an email address and wiil send you an email a week but that seems a fair deal to me,for what they offer.
Upside,as everything is stored on the net it doesn't matter what happens to your PC or backup disks,your important bits of Hal are just a download away.

If any one is interested here's the website http://mozy.com/
My referral code is CPW39C That just gets more space for my account if entered on the sign up page.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Attention Rob
« on: April 08, 2006, 06:53:30 pm »
Downloaded the EFA earlier. I've only had time for a quick test but it's looking good. Nice bit of coding there.[:)]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Attention Rob
« on: April 07, 2006, 05:35:07 pm »
Hi Jerry.
I've sent you a reply to your email from my FL Yahoo account confirming that I signed up to your forum under the name of Prospector.
Thanks.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Image and map search
« on: April 05, 2006, 03:58:57 pm »
Hi Jerry.
Feel free to use or modify the code any way you wish.I did intend my script to have a location based Geocache find function and a night sky view but couldn't get it to open the web pages.
The Geocache web address takes the form of

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat_ns=1&lat_h=51&lat_mmss=30&long_ew=-1&long_h=0&long_mmss=04

The numbers being the grid reference in lat/long.Hal can open it if I store it as a favorite but doesn't want to from within the script.Same problem with the night sky view which accesses a different website but uses a similar format.Any ideas would be appreciated.

Your EFA sounds most impressive.Looking forward to it being released.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Image and map search
« on: April 04, 2006, 04:38:10 pm »
A small plugin for Hal6 to display pictures and maps on demand.
Just unzip picsearch.uhp and place the file in the main Hal folder and select Image and Map from the brain plugin section of the options page.

Use the phrase show a picture of and Hal will find something appropriate.
It is ok to use quotes around the search term. So show a picture of an eagle should bring up several assorted eagles. show a picture of "a F15 Eagle should just find the plane.

Use the phrase show a map of and a Hal will find a street map if available. Google's street map coverage isn't complete,(mostly USA,UK and Japan), but there is a satellite view button on the page so there will still be something to see.If there are two or more places with the same name, asking, show a map of Paris France or show a map of Paris Texas is acceptable.

Download Attachment: picsearch.zip
1.14 KB

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Webcam Face Recognition
« on: February 17, 2006, 07:17:46 pm »
If you'd like to give Zork another go, have a look here.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/
Zork 1,2,3 and The Undiscovered Underground were released for free as a promotion for the later games.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help??
« on: November 30, 2005, 03:36:20 pm »
Good to know you got it working,Mark.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help??
« on: November 29, 2005, 07:15:14 pm »
Ok, to get a resposne is similar to Hal5.
Edit the plugin and insert the GetResponse before the End if as below.


If InStr(p_UserSentence, "qwz") <> 0 Then
p_File = "nameofhap.hap"
GetResponse = "insert comment here"
End if


or alternatively

If InStr(p_UserSentence, "qwz") <> 0 Then
p_File = "nameofhap.hap"
GetResponse = GetResponse & HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile(WorkingDir & "comment.txt")
End if

comment.text is just a text file with a series of responses.Just make one and drop it in the main Hal folder

Format would be

Hi there
Go away
Where do you want to go today
etc

Just make sure to hit the return key after the last one or you might get a blank response.



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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help??
« on: November 29, 2005, 02:05:23 pm »
Oops. Small error on my part in the script.

If InStr(p_UserSentence, "qwz") <> 0 Then
p_File = "nameofhap.hap"
HalCommands = "<HAPFILE>" & p_file & "</HAPFILE>"
End if

Should have been

If InStr(p_UserSentence, "qwz") <> 0 Then
p_File = "nameofhap.hap"
End if

Downloaded your .uhp file which for some reason ended as .uhd and checked your trigger sentence.Hal swaps things round so "I" becomes "you" and "my" becomes "your".
For example,when talking to Hal you say something like "go to your room",the line in the plugin becomes  If InStr(p_UserSentence, "go to my room") <> 0 Then

Couldn't get your hap file to download so renamed one of mine to match and it works for me with the attached uhp
Seems best when changing a plugin to deselct it from the list, shutdown Hal completely,restart Hal and reselect the plugin.
Any haps that worked in Hal5 should work in Hal6 assuming same models are installed as far as I can tell.At least all the ones I used are still ok [:)]
Hope this helps

Download Attachment: hapcall.zip
1.22 KB

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