I see you can customise your bot's avatar pretty easily, but is it possible to alter the .swf containing the interface to deal with site designs that require more than altering the font and background colour. Currently running a few experiments with Program E, and $15 is a bargain to have the fiddly Flash work done in advance, but the style of interface doesn't fit the moderately kooky ideas I have in mind for how the bot I'm building should work (of course, ditto with SitePal, OddHost and all the other 'You charge HOW MUCH?' type sites. I just really, really hate getting anything done in Flash)

Put simply, being able to move away from the simple sidebar approach. Given that the .fla file is just* a wrapper around Program E, it would be good to be able to shunt the interaction bars to be horizontal, merge the code into a larger Flash file, stick the text into a speech bubble and all that kind of thing, on a site by site basis. Basically, have the engine work done, while having free reign over the design - if not in the base download, then at a slightly higher price point. Although not by too much.

As it is, most bots get served up in a ludicrously constricted format - folks like RoboPresence charging frankly stupid money for a service covered in irritating logos, with achingly limited features (I think SitePal wants something like $500 a year for a version where you can take their name off the Flash file, and $10 a month for the 'Look whut I bought, Ma!' edition). In this case, I'd be interested in having basically a short-cut Flash file that gets past all the trouble of making it play nicely with P-E, leaving me free to worry about the design work and making it act like I want.


(* No offence intended here! There's more to it than 'just' but for these purposes...)