Guest zipjay Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 is there any linux apps out there that are like microsoft agent? i think the talking characters are kool and it would be kool to have a program like that in linux.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 What exactly is MS Agent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 Is it that cartoon program? Where it's like you and a friend talking to each other and then what you type comes in little bubbles and you can animate all the cartoons etc? If that's it I haven't used something like that in over 3 years when I had my windows 98 machine. If so then I don't know such a thing for Linux, there probably is something out there like that. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 Is that they darn annoying paper clip thingy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axel_2078 Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 The paper clip thingy is part of Microsoft Office. It's the animated assistant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echylo Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 isn't it a sort of paperclip :P but then a sort of detective, who helps you with microsoft, it talks & stuff, like a human pet :P , well we can make a program that makes tux alive no? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bubblemower Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 The MS Agents are programable characters you can use on Windows. If you have access to a Windows system download this script code into a text file and save it as something.vbs and you'll see the Wizard character (installed by default on all Windows system since the release of IE4.0 I think). '************************************************************************* 'The date ... dayOfWeek = WeekDayName(Weekday(Now())) monthOfYear = MonthName(Month(Now())) dayOfMonth = Day(Now()) thisYear = Year(Now()) dayofMonthExtension = "th" If dayofMonth = (1 Or 2 Or 3 Or 21 or 22 or 23) Then If dayofMonth = (1 Or 21 Or 31) Then dayofMonthExtension = "st" Else If dayofMonth = (2 Or 22) Then dayofMonthExtension = "nd" Else If dayofMonth = (3 Or 23) Then dayofMonthExtension = "rd" End If End If End If End If theDate = "Today is " & dayOfWeek & ": " _ & monthOfYear & " " & dayOfMonth _ & dayofMonthExtension & ", " & thisYear _ & ". Have a nice day." '************************************************************************* 'Talking Character Set fig1 = Activate("Merlin") fig1.Show fig1.Play("Greet") fig1.Speak("Hello, Did you miss me?") fig1.Hide WScript.Sleep 25000 Function Activate(figur) Dim Path, AgentControl, fig1, fso, Wshshell, fileLocation, winFldrName, winFldr Const WindowsFolder = 0 Set wshshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set winFldr = fso.getSpecialFolder(WindowsFolder) winFldrName = winFldr.Path fileLocation = winFldrName & "\MSAGENT\CHARS\" & figur & ".ACS" 'If the character isn't there it gets installed If (Not fso.fileExists(fileLocation)) Then Wshshell.run("\\resnt\public\hvs_bbs\agent\" & figur & ".EXE") WScript.Sleep 3000 End If Path = "%WINDIR%\MSAGENT\CHARS\" & figur & ".ACS" Set AgentControl = WScript.CreateObject("Agent.Control.1", "event_") If IsObject(AgentControl) Then AgentControl.Connected = True Path = wshshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(Path) AgentControl.Characters.Load figur, Path Set Activate = AgentControl.Characters(figur) End Function Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 (edited) What the heck was that? Little wizard popped up and said "did you miss me?" and goes away. What's that good for? *Edit* Hehe, I found what it's good for. I changed the script so that he says "This Windows machine sucks. Can someone help me get into a real OS?" I just can't stop clicking him now :D Edited September 14, 2004 by kmc77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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