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[Joe Fishback]

I am controlling a Robopet with Robodance and everything run fine. My problem is that I have two different people using the same Robopet and their pronucation of the command words are different. I can get things to work by changing the spelling for each person each time they use Robodance. Is there any way to save the two different pronucations of the same command?

Joe Fishback

[roschler]

You can't do that with Robodance currently. You can do it in a pretty awkward but simple way outside of Robodance. The pronunciation table is stored in a file called [ROBOT-NAME-codes.txt] in the sub-directory underneath where you installed Robodance called /data/[ROBOT-NAME]. For example, if you installed Robodance to the default location, and in your case for the Robopet, you would find the robopet_v1-codes.txt file here:

C:\Program Files\Robodance\data\ROBOPET_V1\robopet_v1-codes.txt

So if you wanted to have different people with their own pronunciations, you would have two separate codes files, one for each user. Let's say you have two users named User1 and User2 (you could use their real names just as well). First you would have User1 use Robodance to modify the command pronunciations. Then you would exit Robodance and copy the file shown above to:

C:\Program Files\Robodance\data\ROBOPET_V1\robopet_v1-codes-USER1.txt

Then you would repeat the process for User2 except when you exit Robodance, you would copy the file to:

C:\Program Files\Robodance\data\ROBOPET_V1\robopet_v1-codes-USER2.txt

Then you would create two simple batch files that you would call to run Robodance that would copy over the desired users codes file before running Robodance. For example, here's a sample SWITCH-TO-USER-1.BAT batch file: