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Mar 29, 2004, 2:32am

Hi Everyone,

I am an experienced C/C++ programmer new to bot programming. I have
created a bot which seems to login OK, but I can't "see" the bot when
I'm in the same world. I handle the AW_EVENT_AVATAR_ADD and the bot
gets a callback for my avatar - good. When I make the bot try to say
something or whisper something to my avatar, I get 439 -
RC_NO_CONNECTION - bad.

Do I have to have certain permissions to run a bot (I'm a new citizen)?
Do I have to be in a particular world (I am testing in AW)?
What is the AW_MY_STATE attribute for (my bot seems to have state 0)?

Thanks!!
- me

Mar 29, 2004, 1:10pm

Yayy!!!!!!!!!!!!

It worked! It worked!
*jumps up and down laughing

I tried my bot in Xelagon and all works great now! (I also increased
the frequency of calling aw_wait and called it with param 0 - so that
might have been it too) Thanks everyone. You have a great community here.

By the way, I played around with a Xelagot several months ago when I was
working on some webpages for someone else's aw project. I logged in and
logged in the bot and told it to "come here." While I waited around for
the bot to show up I was creepily reminded by that short horror story
about the old couple whose only son is lost tragically at sea (or
something like that). The man finds some kind of genie lamp with three
wishes and brings it home to his wife. They wish for something
innocuous to test it and it comes true with some kind of unforseen twist
(can't remember the details). So the wife grabs up the lamp and wishes
for her son to come home. Nothing happens, but the man is filled with a
sense of foreboding. In the middle of the night, they hear this
horrible scratching and moaning at the door. The wife runs to open it
and the man in horror realizes that they have raised the undead. He
snatches up the lamp and just before the door opens, wishes the son back
to the grave. The door opens and nothing is there...

Anyway, the bot was very nicely behaved and all - nothing like an undead
corpse. :-) Thanks for the great application!

I'll let you all know how it goes. Anyone know of any natural language
processing bots out there? (cuz that's what I'm working on)

Thanks again everyone!

- me


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