MSAgent characters under Windows 7

[Medeksza]

Microsoft has officially ended support of MSAgent in Windows 7. Old versions of the MSAgent engine do not work well under Windows 7 and they don't allow companies to redistribute the newer MSAgent engine.

However, due to customer complaints, they did release MSAgent for Windows 7 as a "hotfix" which installs it. They don't allow companies like Zabaware to redistribute this hotfix, but customers can get it themselves at http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=969168

There is also an open source MSAgent replacement under active development from http://www.cinnamonsoftware.com/double_agent.htm  Once it is complete, I plan on including it as part of Hal's installation to fully support MSAgent type characters and both SAPI 4 and 5 under all versions of Windows.

[spydaz]

i HAVE FOUND THIS PROBLEM BEFORE.


1ST THE ORIGINAL DOWNLOAD FROM MICROSOFT MSAGENT.EXE < this does work! But there is transparency issues with some characters. I have found to Correct this problem.

SAVE YOUR ORIGINAL (VISTA VERSIONS) or (XP VERSIONS) of,

AgentAnm.dll, AgentCtl.dll, AgentDp2.dll, AgentDPv.dll, AgentMPx.dll, AgentPsh.dll, AGTUI.DLL .

These are to be copied over the ones provided by the original msagent.exe installer. (works fine on lesser versions of windows).

the ones provided in Vista and XP are Updated versions of the one provided in the msagent.exe as it was originally intended for BACKEND users of win95 / winnt as windows 98 comes with the same versions as supplied in the msagent.exe. <PREFERABLY THE VISTA VERSIONS> as these will be the FINAL VERSIONS of the MSAGENT CONTROL.

Hopefully this should clear things up.

PS: the Microsoft link only provides a hot-fix for windows 7 x86 version and will not install on the 64bit... silly Microsoft!

[Baerdric]

quote:Originally posted by Medeksza

There is also an open source MSAgent replacement under active development from http://www.cinnamonsoftware.com/double_agent.htm  

I find this tremendously exciting. I prefer msagent over haptek in many ways, and have always wished there were more and better ways to use the technology. Maybe when they get done, their version will be more full featured...