microsoft office assistant pop-up

[Devastater]

hey, im really no coder at all and don't know much besides html, but im working on a website for one of my classes and want to know what the code for having an office assistant pop up and what the code is to give it commands and stuff.......

i know this code exists because ive used it before......but that was a while ago and don't remember it anymore......
please post!! thanks!!! :)

[Waylander]

Turn on the office assistant?

Have you the brain worms???

Id like to know how to use these commands too, make myself a little process I can keep with me and use to suppress that little sucker when im unable to un-install it.

Waylander.

[Devastater]

well, turn it on in a website, so whenever a page is opened it comes up and has a text box that says what i want it to and does the actions i tell it to do.......

[Waylander]

Ive never seen anyone do it.

lol i kid but i am interested,

[Devastater]

i no, its pretty rare and probably original to some awesome programmer that came up with it, but i came accross it at some website that sold stuff and merlin came up and did a twirl and greeted me to the website and then disappeared..........so i looked at the source and was pretty interesting so i put it on my site for a while but it got annoying so i took it off and haven't been able to remember it ever since.......

[Waylander]

its probably just an activex command to an already installed office or something, i think its called MS Agent or something like that.

i read this
http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=861
lol i hope the code you had before was opening the assistant from the server not from the local machine...

and then this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msagent/guidlin_7cfi.asp

the menu on the left has a bunch of topics that might help

[Devastater]

thanks for those links waylander, but man......there is soooo much info on that second link u gave ....ive been searching for like an hour and a half and still can't find the code to get it on a webpage......if anyone else knows ...anything.....please post, in the meantime i'll keep searching that site.. :)

[Devastater]

yaaaaaa.......found it!!! :)
try it out....its fun

i believe this goes in the body tag.....
language=Javascript onLoad="OnLoad()"

and this goes in the body.....
<OBJECT ID="AgentControl" width=0 height=0
CLASSID="CLSID:D45FD31B-5C6E-11D1-9EC1-00C04FD7081F"
CODEBASE="#VERSION=2,0,0,0">
</OBJECT>

<SCRIPT language=Javascript>

var Merlin;


function OnLoad() {
AgentControl.Connected = true;
AgentControl.Characters.Load("Merlin",

"http://agent.microsoft.com//agent2//chars//merlin//merlin.acf");

Merlin = AgentControl.Characters.Character("Merlin");

Merlin.LanguageID = 0x0409;
Merlin.Get("state", "Showing, Speaking");
Merlin.Get("animation", "Greet, GreetReturn");
Merlin.Show();
Merlin.Get("state", "Hiding");
Merlin.Play("Greet");
Merlin.Speak("Hello, World!");
Merlin.Hide()
}

</SCRIPT>

[Waylander]

lol will do,