[Savannah-register-public] [task #7122] Submission of AKFAvatar

[Andreas K. Foerster]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?7122>

                 Summary: Submission of AKFAvatar
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: akf
            Submitted on: Sonntag 29.07.2007 um 11:14
         Should Start On: Sonntag 29.07.2007 um 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Mittwoch 08.08.2007 um 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9424> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9424>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *AKFAvatar*
* System Name:  *akfavatar*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later

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==== Description: ====
AKFAvatar is software, where an avatar appears on the screen and tells things
written in a balloon. First the avatar moves slowly in from the right side.
Then the balloon is shown and the text becomes visible: letter by letter, in
the pace of normal reading.

The default avatar is currently a GNU head.

AKFAvatar can be used to make demos that you can show for example at an
information booth or in a shop's window. It can be used for making funny
tutorials. Other uses may follow...

The program avatarsay can be used as a fancy text-reader. There is also a
script for reading Manpages with avatarsay. Furthermore the program supports
some basic commands, so it can be used as a scripting-language.

It is written in C.
You can use the avatar library from your own C or C++ programs.

There is also a rather mature Pascal-binding for GNU-Pascal and Free Pascal.
It is even possible to add the avatar to programs without any changes to the
source code of the pascal program. This works with any program, which uses
only the standard input/output; the CRT unit or other output facilities may
not be used! 

There is also an experimental script for better GNOME support, which uses
zenity.

http://akfoerster.de/akfavatar/



==== Other Software Required: ====
Needed:
SDL-1.2 (1.2.11 or higher recommended)
http://libsdl.org/
http://libsdl.org/license.php

Recommended:
SDL_image
http://libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
zenity
http://directory.fsf.org/zenity.html (?)

Optional:
GNU-Pascal
http://www.gnu-pascal.de/
Free Pascal
http://www.freepascal.org/


Maybe later one day:
libspeex, SDL_Pango, SDL_ttf



==== Other Comments: ====
There are negotiations whether this could become a GNU project (ask karl).

I already use a local CVS.







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