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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Time and date functions : Iso Date?

« on: July 02, 2005, 11:23:29 pm »

Hi,

I've been experimenting with various time and date functions, including the memory, halpast and the Date Difference Qualified Demo brain available on this site.

I'm not a programmer, but I've found I can't get them to operate correctly because I'm in Australia ie; we use d/m/y, not m/d/y as in the us. If I change system setting they work. This is most likely a fairly universal problem outside the US I would think.

I've attempted an Iso date conversion routine, which I've probably implemented incorrectly, etc.

Is there a way to specify within the VBscript a date format which can then be used by any following routines?

Having Hal respond with time related conversational information could be very useful, especially in the forthcoming (soon I hope) SQLite based brain.

R.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Load options on start up?

« on: June 23, 2005, 10:18:59 am »

Is it possible to have Hal start up with all preferred options, such as lighting and character texture? I know this can be done through load commands and hap files. Has anyone had success with, say, an initialization script in the brain file, ini, or hla?

It seems such an obvious requirement, next to the character, background and brain etc that are pre-settable from the options menu.

Akin to this, can Hal be run locally in an html document, where it would be possible to create javascript controls for such things?

TIA.
R