[RavenclawDev 258] Re: checking if an agent has been restarted

[Svetlana Stenchikova]

Antoine, thank you for clarification.
I think that I now understand how to apply your suggestion.

Svetlana

On 4/16/07, Antoine Raux <antoine at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Svetlana,
>
> Actually the solution I described does not require to add any extra agent
> (although that kind of depends on your task structure). Sorry if I was not
> clear.
> Basically all you need to do is a start over function which describes what
> to do on a start over. The rest is handled by the generic start over library
> agent.
>
> If you send me either a detailed description of what you want to do or your
> code, I might be able to help you with your specific case...
>
> antoine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svetlana Stenchikova [mailto:svetastenchikova at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:54 PM
> To: Antoine Raux
> Cc: ravenclaw-developers at cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: [RavenclawDev 253] Re: checking if an agent has been restarted
>
> Thanks Antoine,
>
>  your solution makes sense, however it would require me to make
> changes to my dialog structure and add a custom start over code.
>
> I would like to re-use the generic start-over, I was hoping to get a
> flag indicating if the system has been start over or not.
>
> I guess I will live with my (inelegant) solution for now because I do
> not want to add any extra agents.
>
> Svetlana
>
> On 4/16/07, Antoine Raux <antoine at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > Udhay (and everyone),
> >
> > The difference is that the custom StartOver function gets called by the
> > StartOver library agent, i.e. anytime a user says "START OVER" or
> something
> > equivalent. To get the same behavior "manually", you'd have to create an
> > agent that gets triggered on such user input, i.e. you'd have to duplicate
> > the generic StartOver library agent. It's precisely in an attempt to keep
> > the StartOver behavior as generic (i.e. task-independent and reusable) as
> > possible that we designed this customizable StartOver function thing.
> >
> > Hope this clarifies things...
> >
> > antoine
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: udhay.ece at gmail.com [mailto:udhay.ece at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> > Udhyakumar N
> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 12:41 AM
> > To: Antoine Raux
> > Cc: ravenclaw-developers at cs.cmu.edu
> > Subject: Re: [RavenclawDev 251] Re: checking if an agent has been
> restarted
> >
> > A small clarification.
> >
> > What is the difference between reopening all the agents except Welcome
> > prompt at the end and the method you just described?
> >
> > -Udhay
> >
> >
> > On 4/16/07, Antoine Raux <antoine at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi Svetlana,
> > >
> > > We had a similar issue in Let's Go so let me describe it and how we
> > > addressed it. Hopefully that'll help you.
> > >
> > > At the very beginning of the dialog, the system gives an introduction
> > > message ("Welcome to Let's Go (...) To get help say HELP (...)"), which
> we
> > > do not want to repeat on a start over (in that case we just want "Okay
> > let's
> > > start from the beginning. What can I do for you?"). The solution was to
> > >
> > > 1) define an inform prompt for starting_over as "Okay let's start from
> the
> > > beginning." (this prompt is automatically spoken by the standard
> StartOver
> > > agency)
> > >
> > > 2) define a Let's Go specific StartOver function.
> > > The latter is done by adding:
> > >
> > >         CUSTOM_START_OVER(LetsGoPublicStartOver)
> > >
> > > to the CORE_CONFIGURATION section, and define a function called
> > > LetsGoPublicStartOver() as follows (sorry for the potential spurious
> line
> > > breaks...):
> > >
> > > // D: define the start-over routine for lets go public
> > > void LetsGoPublicStartOver() {
> > >         // Resets only the subttree in charge of the actual task
> > >         // (so as not to repeat the introduction)
> > >         CDialogAgent& rda =
> > >
> > > pDTTManager->GetDialogTaskTreeRoot()->A("/LetsGoPublic/PerformTask");
> > >         rda.Reset();
> > >
> > >
> pDMCore->PopTopicFromExecutionStack(pDTTManager->GetDialogTaskTreeRoot());
> > >         pDMCore->ContinueWith(pDMCore,
> > > pDTTManager->GetDialogTaskTreeRoot());
> > > }
> > >
> > > In our case, this function restarts the PerformTask subtree instead of
> the
> > > whole tree (the introduction prompt is not in PerformTask).
> > > Of course, you could do other stuff in this function...
> > >
> > > So here is how we solved our problem. I hope that'll help you solve
> yours.
> > > Let me know if you have questions...
> > >
> > > antoine
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ravenclaw-developers-bounces at LOGANBERRY.srv.cs.cmu.edu
> > > [mailto:ravenclaw-developers-bounces at LOGANBERRY.srv.cs.cmu.edu] On
> Behalf
> > Of
> > > Svetlana Stenchikova
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30 PM
> > > To: ravenclaw-developers at cs.cmu.edu
> > > Subject: [RavenclawDev 250] checking if an agent has been restarted
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > does RavenClaw have any facility to check if the dialog has been
> > > "restarted"?
> > >
> > > I would like to play a different message when the dialog is
> > > 'restarted' than when it is 'started' for the first time, but I do not
> > > see how I can check for that.
> > >
> > > When a user says 'restart' all agents are recreated, so that all
> > > reset, reopen counters start from 0 again.
> > >
> > > I can add to  DialogAgent  a static variable 'countCreated', which
> > > counts every time any agent is created, but this is not a nice
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > Can someone suggest a better way?
> > >
> > > thank you
> > > Svetlana
> > >
> > >
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