Title: Having Hal open a program
Post by: hugsetc on January 14, 2003, 03:48:05 AM
Post by: hugsetc on January 14, 2003, 03:48:05 AM
Hello.
I am having trouble with getting Hal to open a program. When I tell him to e-mail someone, he opens Eudora, but the wrong copy of Eudora. When I tell him to open "Bejeweled", he replies, "Can you spout buzzwords with the best of them?" For open "Netscape", I receive "Error 53", then one of the Netscape help files opens. Most programs receive the error. I haven't found one yet that he opens.
(I am using Windows XP Home Edition and version 4.5 of Ultra Hal.)
I am having trouble with getting Hal to open a program. When I tell him to e-mail someone, he opens Eudora, but the wrong copy of Eudora. When I tell him to open "Bejeweled", he replies, "Can you spout buzzwords with the best of them?" For open "Netscape", I receive "Error 53", then one of the Netscape help files opens. Most programs receive the error. I haven't found one yet that he opens.
(I am using Windows XP Home Edition and version 4.5 of Ultra Hal.)
Title: Having Hal open a program
Post by: Medeksza on January 15, 2003, 11:37:30 PM
Post by: Medeksza on January 15, 2003, 11:37:30 PM
Make sure that the email client you want Hal to use is registered as the default Windows email client. Hal uses a mailto: link to open your email client, so whatever program is setup to use mailto: will open. Error 53 means file not found, which is pretty strange. In Windows XP, are you logged on an account with administrator privleges?
Robert Medeksza
Robert Medeksza
Title: Having Hal open a program
Post by: hugsetc on January 16, 2003, 04:32:50 AM
Post by: hugsetc on January 16, 2003, 04:32:50 AM
Hello, Robert.
I think I understand why Hal would be confused about my e-mail. Eudora is the default mail program, but I have it installed in a few different directories to make my e-mail addresses more managable. Since he uses a mailto: link, it will be easy to make it work the way I'd like it to.
Yes, this account has administrator privleges. I have found one program so far that he can open. That is Paint Shop Pro 7. If I ask him to "open PSP" it works, which is very nice. Do you have an idea of how I could teach him to open the others?
Heather
I think I understand why Hal would be confused about my e-mail. Eudora is the default mail program, but I have it installed in a few different directories to make my e-mail addresses more managable. Since he uses a mailto: link, it will be easy to make it work the way I'd like it to.
Yes, this account has administrator privleges. I have found one program so far that he can open. That is Paint Shop Pro 7. If I ask him to "open PSP" it works, which is very nice. Do you have an idea of how I could teach him to open the others?
Heather
Title: Having Hal open a program
Post by: hugsetc on January 16, 2003, 10:40:46 PM
Post by: hugsetc on January 16, 2003, 10:40:46 PM
I was trying opening some programs again, to see if I could find any more that work. I found a couple, and I noticed something about the ones that don't open. For the ones that he tries to open, and gets the error, the file it isn't finding is always: APIGID32.dll
Title: Having Hal open a program
Post by: Medeksza on January 16, 2003, 11:37:14 PM
Post by: Medeksza on January 16, 2003, 11:37:14 PM
Download this file ftp://ftp.desaware.com/SampleCode/Updates/apigid32.dll and copy it into Hal's folder (usually c:/program files/zabaware/ultra hal assistant 4)
This DLL is used by Hal to access the help files of programs, if Hal can find a standard Windows help file associated with a program. This would explain why some programs open for you and others don't.
Robert Medeksza
This DLL is used by Hal to access the help files of programs, if Hal can find a standard Windows help file associated with a program. This would explain why some programs open for you and others don't.
Robert Medeksza
Title: Having Hal open a program
Post by: hugsetc on January 17, 2003, 05:28:25 AM
Post by: hugsetc on January 17, 2003, 05:28:25 AM
Well, it looks like that was a step in the right direction. Now, when I ask him to open a program that used to give me the error message, the help file for the program opens. The program still doesn't open, but I get something other than an error message. 
(One other thing that I've noticed is that, when Hal does open a program for me, he says: I will now run "". He doesn't put anything between the quotes.)
Edited by - hugsetc on 01/17/2003 05:55:16
(One other thing that I've noticed is that, when Hal does open a program for me, he says: I will now run "". He doesn't put anything between the quotes.)
Edited by - hugsetc on 01/17/2003 05:55:16