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#1 Post by MU »

This dotpup requires wxBasic: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1984

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Large screenshot:
http://noforum.de/files/wxagentsorg/wxa ... g05lin.jpg

This program is a Linux/cross-platform-port of the Windows-program agents.org http://f1.parsimony.net/cgi-bin/topic-i ... mmer=51155 (german)

It is a small Desktop-app, that gives you access to many search-services in the internet, for example for translation, specialized search-engines like "Preissuchmaschine (german)", Stadtplandienst (city-guide), Domain-search and more.
It can easily be customized to add your own search-engines.
It allows to trick out session-based services like Stadtplandienst, that normally refuse to work with external applications ;)

It also has an advanced configuration for the artificial intelligence "START" of the MIT.
START understands "normal questions" like "how old is Ronald Reagan".


The interface is german, but it just has very few buttons, so here is the translation:
suche - search
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Nice + productive tool!

#2 Post by PeterSieg »

Hi Mark, I like this tool. Also downloaded this for win$ for my wife...
How can I add another search (ebay)...?
=> found it: add in searchstrings.cfg:

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Have fun :)

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#3 Post by MU »

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Great little tool - convertion to Puppybasic possible?

#4 Post by PeterSieg »

Hi Mark, I really love this little tool!!

It would be great, if this could be included in standard puppy.
But as long as it requires full wxbasic with 1.8mb ... :(
So I just asked myself, if it could be converted to Puppybasic..?
Since this is already in standard puppy...

What do you think..?

Thanks again, Peter
Have fun :)

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#5 Post by MU »

I think I won't port it to puppybasic.

But it should not be too hard to do.

Anyway, today I continued on Monthcalendar, and just found out that PuppyBasic is really different from wxBasic.

I PuppyBasic (which is intended for Linux only), you can shorten your programs with all those helpfull shell-programs like "ls".

If you try to program crossplatform, you must use wxdir,which takes about 10 lines of code.
Or try a simple "cp /test/* /test2/" in wxBasic - horror...

On the other hand, wxWidgets has some nice stuff like wxDirexists().

Thats to say, porting from wxBasic to Puppybasic doesn't just mean to replace the "wxGUI" with XDialog, but also several "internal/invisible" commands had to be rewritten.

I think wxAgents is used too seldom, I will prefer to enhance the Dotpup-stuff instead (Deb-Support for Wizard / Search-bugfix for Downloader and so on).


But I heard about a german coder living between Hannover and G

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