Invisible robot

[Salomon]

Hi !

Three google robot I know are invisible and automatically inserted in
a wave. These are Linky, Panda and Spelly.
You don't see them in the wave participants BUT they are effectively
there, you can see them in a gadget using playback (which I think
isn't normal, by the way).

How is it possible to do that. I don't even know if they are server-
side or client-side robot or extension...

Anyway, if I want to make a robot that recognize smiley patterns and
insert images instead, it's heavy to, each time I create a wave,
manually insert the corresponding robot. I want this feature to work
exactly as Linky. I don't want to invite a robot for it, I don't even
want to notice he's one of the participant and I want it to work every
time on every wave I create and edit.

Is it possible to develop such a feature yet ? Will it be possible ?

Thank you !

[Sam Osborne]

The "robots" that are automatically added are more editing tools as opposed to actual robots, but they work in a similar way to robots, except, they edit your blips with less of a delay.

2009/11/4 Salomon <timel...@gmail.com>

[cmdskp]

Check out the Extension Installers guide (http://code.google.com/apis/
wave/extensions/installers/index.html) for adding menu actions under
'New Wave' that will allow you to automatically add robots/
participants when creating a new wave.

Please note, that guide is out-of-date though, you need to follow this
structure in the XML file:

<extension...>
<menuHook...>
<createNewWave>
<participant id="your...@appspot.com"/>
</createNewWave>
</menuHook>
</extension>

The 'createNewWave tag is missing the guide and without it you just
get an extra menu item with no action taken.