I want to make so called "desktop buddies" programs

[watdahel]

Can someone point me in a direction in how I can make those "desktop buddies." Those little characters that sit on your window and they are animated and sometimes they talk. Are there SDKs available that I can use?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: erwin1978
Can someone point me in a direction in how I can make those "desktop buddies." Those little characters that sit on your window and they are animated and sometimes they talk. Are there SDKs available that I can use?

Those are implemented through the "Microsoft Agent." I did one a long time ago in VB (you put an ActiveX control in your program and called its various methods to make the little character do stuff), but couldn't remember enough to help you extensively with it now.

To start, however, it would be useful for me (and others) to know what programming language(s) you are proficient in (if you don't know any, this is not the kind of project to start with; you should be doing something much simpler).

 

[watdahel]

Here's an example of what I want to do. That thing doesn't use the free agent, I don't think. Seems like a simple project given that the file is only a few hundred kilobytes big.

I'll be using either C++ or Java, but more likely C++. I'm not proficient with either languages but I know the basics.