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[big_bass]

Hey vovchick

Depending what voice program is installed
having different choices to select from is always the best way
working out the filter for festival is very important because the sound quality is very good keep at it


heres a nice little pic for that robot sound
for personal use only of course

thanks

Joe

[Lobster]

[vovchik]

Dear Puppians (particularly Lobster and big_bass),

I did something for xcowsay over the past few days. Here is a little markup editor that allows for nice tag editing and preview, plus voice synthesis and the saving of results in ready-to-run executable scripts. Please have a look. Much more info on how this thing runs is available in the help file.

Have fun.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. Please bear in mind that this is kind of a "first draft", and suggestions are always welcome.

[Jim1911]

[vovchik]

Dear Jim,

The problem is that gtkdialog in many Puppies has been renamed gtkdialog3 (to distinguish it from an earlier version of gtkdialog, which is called gtkdialog2 in some Puppies). The program will run fine if you simply make a symlink (using Rox, right click on /usr/sbin/gtkdialog3 and click on "Symlink", having deleted the "3" from the input box). You will then have a symlink to gtkdialog3 name gtkdialog (which is the standard name, BTW).

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. I will do that automatically in the next version.

[seaside]

vovchik,

Yes, that is alot of fun - nice job. The only thing that didn't work was the span "font" selection. I'm using Pup 431 and since I don't have a $HOME./fonts directory, I created it and linked my "fonts.dir" file and it still didn't work - I'll try to look at the code later.

[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

I am glad you're having fun. I am, to be sure. You may have to update your fonts.dir (i.e. make it real or refresh it).

The commands are (from a term in the $HOME/.fonts dir):

[Jim1911]

[seaside]

[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

I have already implemented your mod and it will be in the next release. I also should probably put a button on the bottom to open rox in /usr/local/xcowmoo/dialog or make a combobox or filechoose button to show the dialog files so they can be launched as a kind of "proof of the pudding". Users may not know where to find the generated scripts. I am certain a good many ideas for improvement will come to us. Also, to create mini-animations, there should be a possibility to sequence the generated dialogs in a concatenated script or a launch file.

Thanks.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. It occurred to me that line 43 (without the "not") won't create a file if there is none, so I have to do a file check. Although that line is hideously long already, I thought it might benefit from a "| sort -f" at the very end, so that we get a font list that is sorted without case sensitivity. It is easier to find fonts that way, at least for me.

[seaside]

[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

The "<action signal="cursor_changed">" bit is also used by Zibert. Here, for instance:http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35601&start=2280. It would be nice if gtkdialog were documented properly, wouldn't it?

With kind regards,
vovchik

[big_bass]

vovchick

[Lobster]

Dear vovchik, fellow fun lovers,



Editor is a great idea
Had to play about a bit to understand how to get that link . . .


One of my duties as official crustacean to Puppy Linux
is to provide cyber elephants.
It is a hard job but someone has to be crazy enough to do it . . .

I have done that with the enclosed file which is designed
for Lucid 5.1 (it will not work in Lucid 5.0) as mplayer is used.
If you want to use another version of Puppy
you will need to change

[seaside]

Lobster,

So this is what the repetitions were for.......

An elephantine, way off-broadway, Tibetan chanting production of "Hello Dalai".

Would I be repeating myself by saying "Isn't this what Puppy is all about?" - "**** four stars, enchanting, spellbinding -don't miss"

Ciao,
s