[BDD43]

I am trying to use the following:

Dim AnsCall - AxHALi1.TTX.AskListContext("Who?", 3, 60, "Darrin, Donna,")

If AnsCall="Donna" then
AxHALi1.Macros.ItemByName(Get Donna).Play()
END IF


I can't seem to get the variable string AnsCall filled with anything.

Any Ideas? I read where others posted in 2008 were having problems, but not sure if they ever got it working.

[JimMcGowanInlet]

What language is that? it looks like VB but your dim statement looks strange. For VB I would expect

Dim AnsCall as String
AnsCall = AxHALi1.TTX.AskListContext("Who?", 3, 60, "Darrin, Donna,")

[BDD43]

I have what you have listed in the code.

But it doesn't ever fill the string...even if I put one response in and regardless where I put commas.

[BDD43]

Does anyone use this and got it to work??

[JimMcGowanInlet]

I'll try it out later today. Does it timeout or does it return immediatly?

[BDD43]

I set it for 420 and it seems to pause breifly, but it never fills the string with a response.

[BDD43]

Jim,
any luck getting it to fill the string?

[JimMcGowanInlet]

Well my wife stole my microphone but I did mange to figure out what the problem probably is. The iDelay is in mili Seconds so 60ms is too quick. The maximum value of iDelay is 10,000 or 10 seconds. So maybe try iDelay at 5000. That should be enough time to respond.

Also do not put spaces in your responses. For example use "Up,Down,Left,Right" do not use "Up, Down, Left, Right"

From the HALi manual.


AskListContext

(sText As String, iDelay As Integer, iRetries As Integer, sList As String) As String

Returns the spoken choice from a list of words provided.

The method parameters are:

Parameter Description

iWhich A number representing the ordinal position of the object in HAL.
sText A String containing the Text HAL should Speak

sContext A String containing the Specified Context.
iRetries An Integer containing the number of retries.
iDelay An Integer containing the number of mSeconds to wait
sList A string containing a comma “,” separated list of words to ask in context.

Max of 100 words.

Hope that helps.
Jim

[BDD43]

I will give it a try and let everyone know.

Thanks greatly!

[BDD43]

THAT WORKED!!!!!!

Thank you so much. Now I can continue my coding.
I did have to put a comma at the end of the list as stated in another post.
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Dim AnsCall as String
AnsCall=AxHALi1.TTX.AskListContext("Who?", 3, 5000, "Darrin, Donna,Zachary,")

msgbox(AnsCall)
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