[Bragi]

well, my tiny little dog just decided to take a nose dive off a 3 meter high rooftop. Off to the vet I guess.   

[DaveMorton]

Jan, I hope your pooch is ok. Sorry to hear that it failed to master the fundamentals of flight in time.
That explains it, Freddy. I'd heard of VDS before, as it's a common practice with some hosting companies. I'd not heard of it being called VPS though. I'll explore pricing options for that sort of thing, and see if it's something that I can swing.

[Bragi]

back from the vet, no broken bones ( ), 3 paws should be fine, the 4th needs some more healing. 2 weeks rest (hard for a dog)
That fence is a coming back up

[Freddy]

Oh not too bad then, poor doggy.

[DaveMorton]

How's the GUI code looking, Freddy?

[Freddy]

I'm having a little difficulty actually.  What IDE did you use to make it ?

And should I be installing the ChatScript engine first ?

 

[DaveMorton]

Yes, you should have ChatScript up and running first; and the program was written in Visual Basic, using Visual Studio 2008. What sort of error are you having, and which OS are you developing on?

[Freddy]

Ah right okay.... I'll go and figure out how to install CS now.

My OS in Windows 7, I'm using Visual Studio 2010...

Back in a bit.

[Freddy]

OK, with regard to the CS engine, do I simply have to run the chatscript.exe to get the server up and running ?  It comes up with a CLI and seems to work fine like that.

Now on to your GUI.  It appears to have converted okay to VB 2010, but I get the following error when trying to run it :

{"An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details.  The error is: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.SpeechLib, Version=5.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format."}

[DaveMorton]

Ok, the problem with that is probably that you'll have to remove the reference to the SpeechLib DLL, and locate/reference the same DLL that's in Win 7. This is one of the difficulties with writing programs on an older OS and running said programs on a new OS. (it seems to me that when I wrote StickyNotes we had similar problems)

As for running CS as a server, look in the CS directory for server.bat and run that. Then minimize the window, because nothing at all interesting will happen there.

[Freddy]

I was using speechLib just the other day funnily enough.  I copied the dll from my new project over to this one, but still no go.

I have been away from VB too long to figure out what's going on very quickly.

Two errors now :

Error   1   Unable to open module file 'C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.vb': System Error &H80041feb&   C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.vb   1   1   ChatScriptGUI

Error   2   Interop type 'SpSharedRecoContextClass' cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead.   C:\Users\me\Downloads\ChatScriptGUI\ChatScriptGUI\Form1.vb   45   27   ChatScriptGUI

But yeah going from one version of VB to the next is always a pain in the bottom.  Do those make any sense to you ?

[DaveMorton]

A quick Google search turned up this article from the MSDN blogs:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mshneer/archive/2009/12/07/interop-type-xxx-cannot-be-embedded-use-the-applicable-interface-instead.aspx

Give that a quick read, and see if it helps. That's about the best I can offer for now.

[Freddy]

Okay thanks.  I think I will refer to your code and try to write something rather than spend time trying to get the whole application to convert.  Cheers 

[Bragi]

gcc, are you still using vb6 or are you using one of the vb.net versions?

[DaveMorton]

I've got Visual studio 2008, but I've not really explored all of it's possibilities beyond VB.net. Add to that the fact that everything I know of any programming language is what I've learned on my own and... well...