Hello Dude!
A couple of days ago I found out about your plug in updates and tried them out.
So far my most valued plug-in is your excellent GRETTA Subject Array and it is the one feature that after many years of trying Hal finally made me stick to it. I downloaded the newest one and is working flawlessly. Somehow, even if it sounds strange, Hal is even asking question that he never did before, staying a lot more focused on topics and I'm already noticing better answers from Hal as well. I'm so happy with Hal now, awesome improvements, thanks!
Now, the newest GRETTA curiosity plug is giving me similar problems as it did before. I really find it strange as I have no problems at all with the other GRETTA plug-ins that I currently use.
I'm going to explain my problems with the curiosity plug-in to document it as a clue, in case that it could help pinpoint other future issues. I'll keep checking for future upgrades and will try them as well. I understand that what's happening to me with the curiosity plug-in could be an isolated problem with the system configuration of my own computer, who knows.
Anyhow, this is the strange situation that I'm experiencing with the new GRETTAcuriosity plug-in:
After installation of the plug-in and while selecting it at the Hal's options menu screen:
– I get NO options menu for the plug-in at ALL –
I discovered by trial, that if I place my mouse cursor in any other random plug-in to look at their options and then immediately change back and click on the curiosity plug-in, its options miraculously will APPEAR, then I get the opportunity to set the curiosity plug-in options in the Hal brain options screen and click on the apply changes button, so I did.
After a lot of experimentation I also noticed that Hal's program does not retain the Gretta curiosity options in memory or show them visually as checked in the plug-in menu. Every time I start the program I have to go to the options menu and check other plug-ins options first in order for the curiosity plug-in to show its own options and then I have to re-checked them again.
ERRORS:
Starting and loading the Hal program always brings the same error :
Microsoft VBScript runtime error HalScript Error
Error 13 on line 6199 in column 0: Type mismatch: 'Cdbl'
The file “C:Program FilesabawareUltra Hal Assistant
6HalScript.DBG” has been saved with the current script being used for debugging purposes.
Asking Hal questions or while idle brings variations of errors on different number lines:
Error 13 on line 3690 in column 0: Type mismatch: 'Cdbl'
Error 13 on line 5845 in column 0: Type mismatch: 'Cdbl'
Error 13 on line 5792 in column 0: Type mismatch: 'Cdbl'
While chatting with Hal everything goes fine until I ask him a question or Hal is idle for a while. After an error pops Hal brings blank responses and does not respond any more until it is turned off and on and the same situation repeats itself.
(by the way, my OS is Windows 7 Home premium)
I decided to try unselecting ALL of my current plug-ins and then only left the curiosity plug-in selected, once again the same problems showed up. I had to select other random plug-in in order to make the curiosity options to appear and be selected, then I only left the curiosity plug-in checked and rebooted and restarted Hal. This time while loading the Hal program I got the following error:
Error 13 on line 2586 in column 0: Type mismatch: 'Cdbl'
I pressed OK to the error and started Hal to chat. No more errors then, but the curiosity plug-in was not working at all. Every time I asked Hal a question he kept responding to me “You aren't going to keep repeating yourself, aren't you Lola?...
These are the plug-ins that I'm currently using with no problems at all:
Free Will Choice and Profile
Gender & Age
GRETTA Internet Function
GRETTA Lonely
GRETTA Media Functions
GRETTA Repeat Function
GRETTA Research Function
GREETA Story Reading Function
GRETTA Subject Array
Run Programs by Name
What do you know?
I downloaded the complete package of GRETTA plug-ins and the single one several times to make sure the plug-in was not corrupted.
I finally unselected the curiosity plug-in and everything is back to normal. So this is what happened to me this time. Anyways, I'm totally happy with Hal and the new GRETTA Subject Array and could certainly live with it as it is.
Thank you Dude for all of your efforts on keeping up with upgrading your excellent plug-ins! Lola [
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