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text to speech ? not added to website yet. The demo is supposed to 
show two different ways of getting text to speech; via MS Agent and 
via SAPI. I haven't got the MS Agent one working properly yet on 
my system.

Anton, do you have a source for documentation on the COM lib itself. 
I.e., what it can do?

OK, found something. I bet we have some books in the office as well: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/com/html/f5f66603-466c-496b-be29-89a8ed9361dd.asp

Yep, six books.

Thanks for the link !  I don't actually know that much about COM, 
as it is a proprietary technology, I have avoided it til now.

That link is not really the best in terms of the nitty gritty. A 
search through the MSDN site will show other places to look.

Yes, you can flop around in the MSDN archive for a while before you 
find what you want.  An example which I am working on now is extracting 
Calendar data from Outlook.

Updated COMLib website a little bit.  Amongst other small changes, 
added demos/speech.r

If you've got an older distro, you can just download the full zip 
and extract the files over your old directory.

I would like someone to test the speech and let me know if the MS 
Agent character actually talks or not.

On my computer, only balloon text is shown.

(This is not urgent, just when you can be bothered)

link?

http://home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/os/windows/COMLib/files.html

TTS worked, the ms agent just had the bubble.

I have some old ms agent code around somewhere that I used with LFReD, 
along with a dialect.. I'll see if i can find it.

The MS TTS is pretty old technology.. Sounds like Vista may has much 
better speech recognition and a new TTS.  Should check out the beta.

Righto, thanks :)

We'll find out what the difference is.

COM with PHP is soo easy...  drop this into a page on your local 
server.. 

<?

$word=new COM("word.application") or die("Cannot start word for you");
print "Loaded word version ($word->Version)\n";
$word->visible =1;
$word->Documents->Add();
$word->Selection->Typetext("Dit is een test");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("burb ofzo.doc");
$word->Quit();
?>

Want Macro support.. ? 

<?
$obj = new COM("AutoItX3.Control");
$obj->CDTray ("H:", "open");
$obj->Sleep (1000);
$obj->CDTray ("H:", "close");
?>

Not to be critical, but the php syntax is much clearer.

Yes, you can do the chaining of objects easily, and pass args to 
functions directly, without using the printf-style syntax.

I am quite sure I can do better with rebol, but I would have to turn 
DispHelper inside out to find out the way. As it is, I have left 
DispHelper untouched.

How RT manages to charge for library access I'll never understand 
(even though I paid for it .. once).

Looks like you just set the .TTSModeID

Anton, if you made it with the OL connection let me know.

.. but when I set TTSModeID it doesn't work. I am not sure if I am 
using the right TTSModeID or if I am passing it correctly...

Robert, I'm extracting Outlook Calendar Appointments and Contacts. 
Just rudimentary at the moment, though. I haven't figured out how 
to surely extract all the properties.

And  I want to import those into IOS/xpeers :-) so that we can sync 
to OL. Maybe even in both ways.

I will publish what I have in the next day or two.

Here's TTS in PHP.. 

<?
$voice = new COM("SAPI.SpVoice");
$voice->Speak("Hello, lets have a conversation");
?>

tts: CreateObject "Sapi.SpVoice"
CallMethod [tts ".Speak(%s)" "Hello, let's have a conversation"]

pretty similar in COMLib.

wouldn't it be prettier with:

tts: CreateObject [Sapi SpVoice]
tts/call [Speak "Hello, let's have a conversation"]

just to make the syntax more smooth and REBOLish... :-)

Hmm... yes. Of course, if I could just choose the syntax I would 
make it much better. For now, still in learning mode.

Terry, I found some Agent code in HAL 4000 package. Looks pretty 
similar to other demos I have seen. I don't see what exactly I'm 
doing wrong there. I am very suspicious about the TTSModeID setting 
not working. I'll have to follow that up at some stage.

Thanks for your test.

Does the ado stuff work with this new beastie? http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ctp_sqleverywhere.mspx
.

No idea. Do you need it ?

I guess the question is: does COMLib work with ADO.NET ?

I think that depends on whether ADO.NET supports the older ADO interface 
or not.

A better question is whether COMlib supports OLEDB, which is COM-based. 
SQL Everywhere works with OLEDB too.

Well, if it really is COM based, then I imagine it should work.

COMLib website update:
Added outlook-calendar.r and outlook-contacts.r demos.
Fixed a few bugs in the main rebol interface file, COMLib.r
http://home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/os/windows/COMLib/

Robert, have a look at the outlook demos.

Not yet, sorry, was busy. I will. Thanks for posting this stuff.

And, as I don't use OL myself, I need to setup a test system.

Anton, is there a way to use Com and OneNote?

Not sure on this. The postings I find about the COM interface in 
OneNote a few years ago make the interface sound very lacking. Not 
sure it's much better now a few year have gone by or not.

Is there any way to get around the fact that Rebol faces are not 
native Windows "windows"? (i.e. don't have a handle on the system). 
Speech recognition command & control does not work with Rebol apps 
as long as that is the case and I need that...

Hmm.. the system port can be used to trap windows messages, perhaps 
if the command & control uses windows messages you can handle them 
that way... Can you give more information about the speech recognition 
software used ? (Is it MS software ? etc..)