=head1 NAME Tk::SlideShow - a Perl Module for building presentation. =head1 DESCRIPTION This module is for building presentation, that will be as interactive or good looking as Applix or PowerPoint one. The way of using it is complety different on the other hand. =head1 INSTALL CPAN Perl standard way of intalling : perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Warning there is a test on font availability that takes a lot of time depending on how many font families you have installed on your X11 distribution. On my P90 linux box it takes about 6 minutes and block my X11 server during that time. Actually, I got all freefont and sharefont set. =head1 DOCUMENTATION There's a pod file C that is a tutorial as well as a reference to this module. There's also a not yet finished presentation of C using itself. =head1 EXAMPLE You will find examples of scripts using this modules in directories ex1, ex2, ... =head1 CHANGE =head2 since 0.03 =item parallel shift add the ability to "shift" several sprites together =item bugs fix some =item update documentation but not yet complete. Ask me for some more explaination if needed. =head2 since 0.02 =over 2 =item html Add a way to attach html doc to a slide so that you can produce an html version of your presentation. Up to now, it use xwd to snapshot the presentation. It use imagemagick convert to produce png image format file of snapshots. Depends on you browers, but you may have pb to visualize png snapshots. =item ticker tape Add a ticker tape Sprite. It is done to attract attention of attendees. =back =head2 since 0.01 =over 2 =item Choosers added a font chooser, a color chooser. =item Multipos-sition I added a way of defining a path for a B to follow on a slide. =item Documentation added a way for producing documentation out of slides. (method C) =back =head1 AUTHOR Olivier Bouteille (bouteille@dial.oleane.com) =head1 PREREQUISITE You need to have X11::Protocol and Tk800.012 modules already install, You need to use X11 (and of course Unix). You need to already know Perl5.4 and Tk =head1 MISCELANEOUS Alpha stage release. API may change. =cut