[RESOLVED] Office Assistant - MSAgent?

[Piglet]

Hello
I would like to create an office assistant within my VB program but I'm not quite sure where to start. I have read up about MsAgent but it doesnt clearly say what to do. I have added the MS Agent component and put one on my form but thats it so far! Any guidance will be appreciated!

Thanks
Amy

[cssriraman]

Hi,

I attached a vb project about MS Agent control.

I believe this will be useful to you and will clarify your doubts on that.

[Piglet]

OK i have managed to get some code working within a separate project but it doesnt run when i use it within my existing project. If i paste it into a new project and add the msagent controls it works fine but if i run it on a form within my current project it gives me the error "Invalid use of 'New' keyword". I have read lots of help files on this but cant seem to work it out. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance

Here is my code:

Option Explicit
 
Private WithEvents MsAgent As Agent
     Private peedy As IAgentCtlCharacterEx
    
     Private WithEvents MsAgent1 As Agent
      Private merlin As IAgentCtlCharacterEx
     
 
     Private Sub Form_Load()
     
     Dim peedyRequest As IAgentCtlRequest
      Dim merlinRequest As IAgentCtlRequest
     
     'Create an Instance of the Agent Control
     Set MsAgent = New Agent
    Set MsAgent1 = New Agent
     'Load the peedy Character
     MsAgent.Characters.Load "peedy", 
 
"c:\windows\msagent\chars\peedy.acs"
     MsAgent1.Characters.Load "merlin", 
 
"c:\windows\msagent\chars\merlin.acs"
     Set peedy = MsAgent.Characters("peedy")
    Set merlin = MsAgent1.Characters("merlin")
     'Move the Character to the left
     peedy.Left = 500
    peedy.Top = 200
    merlin.Left = 200
    merlin.Top = 200
     'Show peedy without playing the animation
'     merlin.Show True
    Set merlinRequest = merlin.Show
 
     peedy.Wait merlinRequest
     
'     peedy.Show True
    Set peedyRequest = peedy.Show
     merlin.Wait peedyRequest
     
     merlin.Play "announce"
     peedy.Play "Write"
     
   Set merlinRequest = merlin.Speak("Hello Peedy. How are you?")
     'Use bookmarks in the text to identify where peedy is
 peedy.Wait merlinRequest
 
     Set peedyRequest = peedy.Speak("Hi Merlin. I'm fine thanks")
 'peedy.Speak ("\Mrk=1\I am now reading line number one. " & _
  '                "\Mrk=2\Now I am reading line two. " & _
   '               "\Mrk=3\And finally, I am reading line three. 
 
\Mrk=4\ ")
   
   merlin.Wait peedyRequest
   Set merlinRequest = merlin.Speak("I think charley-anne got all 
 
her questions right!")
   
   peedy.Wait merlinRequest
   peedy.Play "pleased"
   peedy.Play "congratulate"
 
   merlin.Play "congratulate"
   
   
   
     End Sub