/// <summary>
/// Ask agent to speak
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private void BtnSpeak_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
AgentServer Srv = new AgentServer();
if (Srv == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("ERROR: Agent Server couldn't be started!");
}
IAgentEx SrvEx;
// The following cast does the QueryInterface to fetch IAgentEx interface from the IAgent interface, directly supported by the object
SrvEx = (IAgentEx)Srv;
// First try to load the default character
int dwCharID = 0, dwReqID = 0;
try
{
// null is used where VT_EMPTY variant is expected by the COM object
String strAgentCharacterFile = null;
if (!strFileName.Equals(string.Empty))
{
//Get the acs path
strAgentCharacterFile = strPath + strFileName;
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Select Style");
return;
}
if (TxtSpeakInput.Text.Equals(string.Empty))
{
TxtSpeakInput.Text = "Please enter text in textbox";
}
SrvEx.Load(strAgentCharacterFile, out dwCharID, out dwReqID);
}
catch (Exception)
{
MessageBox.Show("Failed to load Agent character! Exception details:");
}
SrvEx.GetCharacterEx(dwCharID, out CharacterEx);
//CharacterEx.SetLanguageID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US));
// Show the character. The first parameter tells Microsoft
// Agent to show the character by playing an animation.
// Make the character speak
// Second parameter will be transferred to the COM object as NULL
CharacterEx.Speak(TxtSpeakInput.Text, null, out dwReqID);
}
/// <summary>
/// Show Agent
/// </summary>
private void ShowAgent()
{
AgentServer Srv = new AgentServer();
if (Srv == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("ERROR: Agent Server couldn't be started!");
}
IAgentEx SrvEx;
// The following cast does the QueryInterface to fetch IAgentEx interface from the IAgent interface, directly supported by the object
SrvEx = (IAgentEx)Srv;
// First try to load the default character
int dwCharID = 0, dwReqID = 0;
try
{
// null is used where VT_EMPTY variant is expected by the COM object
String strAgentCharacterFile = null;
if (!strFileName.Equals(string.Empty))
{
//Get the acs path
strAgentCharacterFile = strPath + strFileName;
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Select Style");
return;
}
if (TxtSpeakInput.Text.Equals(string.Empty))
{
TxtSpeakInput.Text = "Please enter text in textbox";
}
//load the acs file
SrvEx.Load(strAgentCharacterFile, out dwCharID, out dwReqID);
}
catch (Exception)
{
MessageBox.Show("Failed to load Agent character! Exception details:");
}
SrvEx.GetCharacterEx(dwCharID, out CharacterEx);
//show the agent
CharacterEx.Show(0, out dwReqID);
}