Help! simple chatbot. user types in, app answers

[toxip...@gmail.com]

Hello,

this is my first post.

I am very new. I did all the tutorials. I tried to read up as much as i could before bothering everybody here. But I just can't seem to figure it out.

I want to make a simple chat bot, as in, have the user type in a question or phrase and then have the app respond with something. How would i go about doing this?

Lists? control? Im so confused. Im a musician not a programmer but I want to learn!

If I learn more I want to give my little chat bot an avatar that moves and simple animations that are interactive. I got some of that done. that was way easier than giving it a brain!

I tried to modify the "talk to me tut." but to no avail.

I know lots of people say why chat bot? soo boring and my brother said it was pointless. but I like it! I love robots!!

Thank you sorry for typing so much.

Warm regards,

Toxi

[Taifun]

I want to make a simple chat bot, as in, have the user type in a question or phrase and then have the app respond with something. How would i go about doing this?

you could put your answers into a list and pick a random item from the list, then use the text to speech component to speak the text

http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/components/media.html#TextToSpeech

Taifun

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[toxip...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the info! Ok i think i am slowly getting it.

I tried to make a list.

then i had when you write something in one text box the text to speech will pic a random thing from that list. but i keep getting errors.

Also: 

if i dont use text to speech so this app can be offline and just have the chabot respond with text in another box... how can i make the text the chat bot puts in go away after say 10 seconds?

Again thank you very much for your help!

[toxip...@gmail.com]

im still kinda lost :(

i figured out to make a random list for it to say things if you touch the screen,

but how the heck do you make it say or write when you type in something.

like:

user types: hello, how are you?

chatbot types: im ok. or great and so forth i tried  if button clicked : setuser text to then text. but then it just types the text when i click the button.

im so confused :(

[Stephen Zipprich]

I'm not sure whether AppInventor can do what it is you're trying to do exactly, but there's a way to do it with preconfigured questions in a Listpicker.  Here's a screenshot of the blocks needed.  Just edit the questions and the answers, add or subtract from each list, and you're good to go.

[Taifun]

but how the heck do you make it say or write when you type in something.
like:
user types: hello, how are you?
chatbot types: im ok. 

you could use a clock and check, if the user entered a dot or question mark in the textbox. If yes, display your answer...

Taifun

[toxip...@gmail.com]

Well, I give up. I don't think i can do this. I still haven't figured out how to have the app user type something in one text box and then receive a written  reply from the "bot" in another text box. i tried predefined and what not still I fail :(

oh well. I wish I had more time to play with this but I don't. Back to music (classical pianist 30 years) If you need any help in music, now  then I am the "bot master" in that field, lol i stink at comedy too. sigh. Thank you all for all your help!

Best wishes,

Toxi