The Balloon Object

[Microsoft Agent is deprecated as of Windows 7, and may be unavailable in subsequent versions of Windows.]

Microsoft Agent supports textual captioning of Speak method using a cartoon word balloon. The Think method enables you to display text without audio output in a "thought" word balloon.

A character's initial word balloon window defaults are defined and compiled in the Microsoft Agent Character Editor. Once running, the balloon's Enabled and Font properties may be overridden by the user. If a user changes the word balloon's properties, they affect all characters. Both the Speak and Think word balloons use the same property settings for size. You can access the properties for a character's word balloon through the Balloon object, which is a child of the Character object.

The Balloon object supports the following properties:

• BackColor
• BorderColor
• CharsPerLine
• Enabled
• FontCharSet
• FontName
• FontBold
• FontItalic
• FontSize
• FontStrikeThru
• FontUnderline
• ForeColor
• NumberOfLines
• Style
• Visible