Personality

This maybe have a really obivous answer, but if I'm logged in, how can I talk to a bot? I seem unable to carry on a conversation after one reply because I can't see what they write back.

don't close the chat window
(will pop up again with answer)

Yeah, like lunar said, when you write a response and click "Send", the window will close itself after it's done sending, and another window will pop up in a little bit (maybe 10-20 seconds) with a response..

Also make sure you don't have an ad-blocker or popup-blocker running or something because I bet it sees the conversations as popups

that would be my problem then, the ad-blocker. duh, that was really stupid! thanks.

Oh! I was just guessing as to a possible problem

thanks for the help, so now I have another question. i can't seem to get into my transcripts to read for my bot for the past 3 days. it doesn't go anywhere it just sits and thinks. should i just keep trying?

I don't know. I had the same problem at one point.

i guess this should have gone on the other forum thing. sorry!

slyabney- it's fixed. Check the Bug Stomp forum for details.

Here's a regular expression that (I think) will find a match5{of a phrase:

^is that (re)

The symbol in front specifies that the match starts at the beginning. Then you need a space because all sentences are formatted with a space in front, and then the words to match. The advantage being, of course, that it wont match sentences like this: "What I think is that I want another snow cone." but it will match "Is that a snow cone?"

What about the (re) bit on the end? Is that necessary?

Also, I think if you could do a similar thing using another symbol which specifies the keyphrase is only to be used when there are no other words in the sentence would be a big improvement. I don't know how hard it would be, but if you could do it I think it would be handy. It'a just a thought, heck you probably already have it down somewhere on your big list of things you want to do.

I've just tested the ^ thing, and as far as I can tell it isn't working.

I believe in order to work, you'd need ^is that (re) (note there's NOT a space before "is", I presume if you put a space there it looks for (space) is).

Also, here's another idea. Having a keyphrase called call me$ (re) would match "call me", but NOT "spank my ass and call me Charlie" or whatever that one a certain bot uses is.