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Zabaware Forums => Ultra Hal 7.0 => Topic started by: RoseNell on November 05, 2007, 12:25:42 pm

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: RoseNell on November 05, 2007, 12:25:42 pm

Hal say he can tell you the weather and read you the news.  But I can not figure out how to get that part of the program to work.
Any help out there.... Would be appreciated.  Thank[:)]

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: visad on November 11, 2007, 10:23:10 pm

What is my local news?  
Whaat is my local weather?

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: caangel43 on November 11, 2007, 10:40:10 pm

I tryed that and cant get hal to tell me the news but weather works

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: visad on November 12, 2007, 01:34:12 pm

Ah,  my apologies, I just went and looked and found out I have a plugin for that, vrWeb, I will attach it here. I found it at the following site http://www.vrconsulting.it/vhf/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39 along with several others. The MP3 plugin is a really nice touch.



(http://icon_paperclip.gif) Download Attachment: vrweb.zip (http://"http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/visad/2007111213345_vrweb.zip")
5.65 KB

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: RoseNell on November 12, 2007, 05:10:29 pm

visad,

I am pretty new at this, but when I download the attachment where do I put it.. ??  Into Hal's what..?  Thanks for all your help, this link of the site you gave us is great...

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: tedathome on November 12, 2007, 11:51:51 pm

visad, thank you for pointing that out. I don't
get around to other sites often enough too pick up
on a lot of plugins and have a hard time learning
how to use them or where to put them.
 Also, I have hal 6.1 and have found out that some
6.0 plugins don't always work well with 6.1.

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: caangel43 on November 13, 2007, 12:17:27 am

how do you edit the file so that my local weather and news can be said any help please

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: visad on November 13, 2007, 07:44:07 am

You can use notepad to open the files; however, I find that confusing at times because of the word wrap and no definitive lines. I use winvi32 for all my "notepad" style editting. http://www.winvi.de/en/

Once open look for and change the following code to match the specific news site you would like to change it to. This should be done *before* you add the plugin. After it has been installed you will need to edit the vrWeb table under the miscData section which can only be seen when you switch to advanced brain editing mode.


      HalBrain.AddToTable "vrWeb", "PatternMatch", "*Hal Help*", "welcome.html"
      HalBrain.AddToTable "vrWeb", "PatternMatch", "*local weather*", "http://uk.weather.com/weather/local/ITXX0067"
      HalBrain.AddToTable "vrWeb", "PatternMatch", "*local news*", "http://www.nytimes.com/"
      HalBrain.AddToTable "vrWeb", "PatternMatch", "*yahoo mail*", "http://my.yahoo.com/"
      HalBrain.AddToTable "vrWeb", "PatternMatch", "*zabaware forum*", "http://www.zabaware.com/forum/"
      HalBrain.AddToTable "vrWeb", "PatternMatch", "*virtual humans forum*", "http://www.vrconsulting.it/vhf/"

When you first setup the file it should give you an option to specify which Weather site you want to use and your Zip code.

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: onthecuttingedge2005 on November 13, 2007, 10:50:53 am

Hi visad

I use the free crimson editor, it is a multi-purpose programming pad with the option of number editing, it has plugin macro abilities and many more options like syntax coloring.

you can check it out here:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Jerry[8D]

Title: WEATHER & NEWS
Post by: caangel43 on November 13, 2007, 05:34:14 pm

thank you for the info I always like to learn new things