Hello,
I have almost got a VB 2008 Express program working using MSAgent's Merlin
character.  The character pops up and says a few words and then enters the
idle state.  I can click a button on the form named btnQuit to exit the
program and that subroutine works.  But I want to use the IdleStart event to
cause the program to terminate gracefully by itself if unattended.  However,
my program never fires the IdleStart subroutine.  Here's the coding.  Can
someone tell me how to correct this program so that it will trigger the
IdleStart subroutine?

Public Class Form1
   Public Merlin As AgentObjects.IAgentCtlCharacter
   Public ctlAgent As New AgentObjects.Agent
   Public Const DATAPATH = "C:\Windows\Msagent\Chars\Merlin.acs"

   Private Sub frmMerlinForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
       ctlAgent.Connected = True
       ctlAgent.Characters.Load("Merlin", DATAPATH)
       Merlin = ctlAgent.Characters("Merlin")
       Merlin.Show()
       Merlin.Speak("Hello World")
   End Sub

   Private Sub Agent_IdleStart(ByVal Merlin As Object, ByVal e As
AxAgentObjects._AgentEvents_IdleStartEvent) Handles Agent.IdleStart
       Merlin.Speak("Good Bye!")
       End
   End Sub

   Private Sub btnQuit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles btnQuit.Click
       End
   End Sub
End Class