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Rules for agents and their messages

Author:Jeff Montgomery
Posted:6/20/2000; 9:12:50 AM
Topic:Rules for agents and their messages
Msg #:17950
Prev/Next:17949 / 17951

I am encountering failure of agent scripts to run and/or show their messages, and so I am wondering a couple of things:

1. What are the conditions for getting messages to the about window to show up from an agent script?

2. What are the conditions under which an agent may fail?

I am familiar with the idea that the agent that will display its messages is the one chosen from the about window popup. However, I also found that if I enclosed the msg() call in a thread.evaluate() statement I can get it to show up in the message window even if that agent is not chosen from the poup menu. Is there a better way?

Regarding item #2, I have found that under some conditions my agent scripts fail, and I don’t know why. When compiled they run, and they contain a sensible value for the clock.sleepfor() verb. However, sometimes, perhaps when they encounter an error, they will cease to run. Sometimes I have to re-compile them to get them to run again later. What might be going on here?

(Frontier Mac, 6.1.1, OS 9.0.4)

Thanks for any help….

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