NAME

     Tk::SlideShow - a Perl Module for building presentation.

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.

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.

DOCUMENTATION

There's a pod file SlideShow.pod that is a tutorial as well as a reference to this module.

There's also a not yet finished presentation of Tk::SlideShow using itself.

EXAMPLE

You will find examples of scripts using this modules in directories ex1, ex2, ...

CHANGE

since 0.03

parallel shift

add the ability to "shift" several sprites together

bugs

fix some

update documentation

but not yet complete. Ask me for some more explaination if needed.

since 0.02

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.

ticker tape

Add a ticker tape Sprite. It is done to attract attention of attendees.

since 0.01

Choosers

added a font chooser, a color chooser.

Multipos-sition Sprite

added a way of defining a path for a Sprite to follow on a slide.

Documentation

added a way for producing documentation out of slides. (method latex)

AUTHOR

Olivier Bouteille (bouteille@dial.oleane.com)

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

MISCELANEOUS

Alpha stage release. API may change.