Verbot 5 Released Today

[Matt]

We are very excited to announce the release of version 5 of the Verbot Application. This new version is upgraded to use .NET 2.0 and we have removed the registration requirement for the scripting editor; Verbot 5 is completely free and fully functional. We have also made improvements so that when Windows 7 is released, the verbot will work even without MS Agent installed.

If you would like to download this version before the downloads.com page is updated, you can download Verbot 5 directly here.

We are in the process of updating Verbots online to support the new Verbot 5 ckb format (it is not backwards compatible so any new .ckb files you create in the Verbot 5 editor will not work in Verbot 4), so hold off on publishing your new compiled files to Verbots Online until we have made the upgrade.

Thank you for your patience, we know an update like this has been long overdue and we hope this new free version will increase interest in the Verbot product.

-Matt, Aaron, and the rest of the Conversive Development Team

[Matt]

Downloads.com now has the Verbot 5 version available for download and since the initial release we have found and fixed a couple of bugs related to backwards compatibility in the Verbot 5 (loading old Verbot 4 ckb files would cause strange matching and sometimes not work at all).

This new release (version 5.0.0.1) is available as an autoupdate, simply run the Verbot 5 player while connected to the internet and it will download this latest version.

Thanks to Sylvain for helping us track down this bug by promptly reporting it!

[Matt]

The upgrade of the Verbots Online system is now complete today and should work for uploading both verbot 4 and verbot 5 ckb files.

You will not see many other visual differences in the Verbots Online system, but future updates will be much easier to roll out because we've upgraded the website to newer technology.

thanks for your patience while we completed this upgrade,
-Matt

[Matt]

Thanks for the bug reports and additional information from from thelackey3326, ender, and junfanjohn on a serious bug affecting editing inputs in the Verbot 5 editor which would cause a crash when a synonym file is included as a resource. The bug has been found and a new release of the Verbot 5 has just been published (version 5.0.0.2), you should be able to auto-update by running the Verbot 5 player.

thanks again for the help and patience of the community!
-Matt

[Matt]

Verbot 5 version 5.0.0.3 was just released which fixes a bug in the verbot skin editor, thanks to Mitch38 for finding and reporting this issue.

As usual, auto-update by running the Verbot 5 player.

-Matt

[Matt]

Verbot 5 version 5.0.0.4 was just released which adds a new feature to allow for powerful event-type global processing in the Verbot.

This feature has been requested quite a bit and it has now been fully implemented and released.

The following posts are where the feature was requested:
Detect "no output found"
"Output not found" rule
Script block to run before processing rules...

To use this new feature you must create a new Code Module File with the module name being: "VerbotStandard" (the file name doesn't matter).
Inside the VerbotStandard code module the following functions can be defined to control the behavior of the Verbot on a global level: