AIML Fox 3.0 Help Topics
Contents
What is AIML Fox?
General Tips on AIML Fox
The Interface:
- File menu
- Edit menu
- AIML functions
- The new interface
AIML Fox 3.0 is a professional AIML Editor. It allows you to easily edit .aiml files. The .aiml files are applications of the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language used in ALICE-type chatbots.
In AIML Fox 3.0
The SCC and Color Engines were discarded. But more features were added: Spreadsheat-like editing, Artemis 0.38 for testing. Easy category editing with the category form etc.
Enjoy your Artificial Intelligence work.For questions, tips and technical support please feel free to E-mail me.
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AIML Fox 3.0 is a professional editor for AIML. It was developed so that AIML authors can do their job easily and quickly. AIML Fox is not going to teach you AIML programming or be your magic AIML wand.
AIML fox is just a utility that shall help you write AIML files with your knowledge of the AI language.
Have a nice AI programming!
The Interface:
The File menu contains the standard file menu commands exactly as the Windows Notepad File menu is.
The New command creates a new document. The new document contains the basic code.
The Open command launches a dialog allowing you to open an existing .aiml document.
The Save command saves the changes to the current document.
Note: AIML Fox saves the changes made in the text of the Preview window. If you have made changes in the Categories tab you must first press Refresh Document (F5) and then save the changes!
The Save As command saves the document with another name.
The Close command closes current file (Note: AIML Fox 3.0 is a Single Document Interface)The Print command command prints the current document on the selecte printer.
The Print Setup command brings up a dialog allowing you to have your print settings changed.The Exit command exits the program.
Note that AIML Fox has prompts to save changes when selecting a command that closes the current document.
The Edit menu is renewed in AIML Fox 3.0! It contains only the copy command. You can copy text from the Preview tabs by selecting it and choosing copy.
The AIML Functions are in the AIML menu.
The Category submenu:
- Create new
Creates a new category in the spreadsheat. It brings up the category form.
-Edit selected
Brings up the category form for the selected category allowing you to edit it.
- Delete selected
Asks and then deletes the current category.
With the View submenu commands you can jump from one tab to another!
The General Report command brings up a dialog box with a short report about the current AIML document. It counts words and characters, shows the version of AIML and other statistics.
The Refresh Document command builds the AIML document from the categories specified in the spreadsheat in the Categories page.
Note: AIML Fox saves the changes made in the text of the Preview window. If you have made changes in the Categories tab you must first press Refresh Document (F5) and then save the changes!
The Options command shows a dialog with some preferences like the font in the Preview window, the intial directory and others...
In AIML Fox 3.0, the philosophy of AIML authoring has changed. The new interface of AIML Fox 3.0 gives another point of view...
The three-tabs interface introduces a more complicated but still more practical way of editing.
The first tab cantains a speadsheat in which the document is separated and poured into. With the new AIML functions (AIML|Category|..) you don't need the mouse to write in AIML. Just by pressing F1 you can add a new category easily with the category form or by pressing F2 you can edit the current. Ctrl+Del deletes the current!
The second tab is actually the interface of AIML Fox 1.0. No manual editing allowed!
The third tab contains Artemis v0.38! This is a very primitive version of the Artemis chatbot. More advanced versions are under heavy development by Phoebus and will be distributed with future versions of AIML Fox.
AIML Fox 1.0 was indeed a bad editor. AIML Fox 2.0 was a disaster. AIML Fox 3.0 is trying to give you the best and easiest way of AIML editing.
Program developed and all documentation written by Nick Parastatidis || Copyright © Phoebus || June 2002