O my lordy. I think I have seen it all now.

This is soooooooo freaking cheesy I am actually straining my brain to desperately come up with a good reason to go buy it right now. Seriously. I really want it. I just cant think of a reason to get it.

(sorry for hijacking there for a minute!)

For you guy/gals about which Windows OS it'll work on, did you go to the MS page?

Lionel: If you go to the MS page under Downloads you'll find a TTS engine to install in your PC to enable the speech.

Geek: Don't do it! :p

hehe... my wife is going to kill me.

I just couldnt resist. Apologies again for going off topic - I couldnt help myself. :)

Thank KW802. That works now.

great hack like it since i use microsoft office alot...funny though****INSTALLED**** hope you can get it to work for firefox. :ermm:

They can't. This will only ever work in IE, it's not going to be supported by anything else, nor should it be.

Only internet explorer i'd imagine

I'd change the first conditional to:

to be safe. Still might behave badly on old versions of ie, but this will make the site run cleanly for any non-ie browsers.

A better change. If you use this conditional, it checks if the browser is IE, and it also checks to confirm that you *aren't* on the private message screen. So Merlin will bug the hell out of you until you click on the PM screen, but once you do he leaves you alone. I also changed the method to Merlin.think instead of Merlin.speak; now he just pops up a thinking box rather than voice.

Ok I have it installed, working great. But how can I use Robby instead of Merlin?

I've replaced the word Merlin with Robby in the code, but I still have Merlin.

Thanks great code.