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Zabaware Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dheu on December 11, 2007, 07:52:08 pm

Title: No Skin option?
Post by: Dheu on December 11, 2007, 07:52:08 pm

Is there a way to make the window 100% transparent or have no window at all? I realize from a programming perspective the issue is window focus. IE: when the user types (or talks), how does hal know when the data is meant for hal versus another program?

While I could brainstorm a few ideas (say or type "Hal" (User defined)... no window focus or modal window = hal intercepts input, etc...), I was wondering if anyone has made a plugin to address this?

CyberBuddy and Deskbot have windowless interfaces, but they dont listen. They only announce events and read popup windows.

Title: No Skin option?
Post by: Art on December 11, 2007, 09:05:15 pm

CyberBuddy does have speech rec option in ver.3 & 4.

It might be possible to make a transparent skin for Hal
and combine it with a non character window.

Usually Hal acts on certain "key" words or phrases like:
Open, Run, Search, Find, etc.

Hal does have an appointment calendar and will remind the
user as the time approaches as well as phone book and
a huge reference libray of data, not to mention that Hal's
brain is now in the form of a database instead of individual
brn or brain files as was present in previous versions.

BTW, Welcome to the forum!!

Title: No Skin option?
Post by: Dheu on December 13, 2007, 10:22:10 am

Thanks for the welcome.

Title: No Skin option?
Post by: Bill819 on December 13, 2007, 11:27:34 pm

A couple of years ago someone made a miniture 'skin'. it was a very small box only used to enter text into and showed Hals reply to.
I meant to copy it but it got away before I could. Not sure how much history we keep here but it might still be in here somewhere.
Bill