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MS Agent style critters for your web pages

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Implementing MS Agent style critters for your web pages.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
	<title>Example</title>
	<script src="jcritter-micro.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		
		//This isn't necessarily the CORRECT way to do this.  Ideally
		//you want to be using attachEvent or addEventListener instead of
		//directly assigning functions to your links below.
		
		var myCritter;
		var penguin;
		window.onload =	function()
						{
							var monkey = 
							{
								width: 128,
								height: 128,
								src: 'monkey.gif',
								adjustTop: 15,
								adjustLeft: 20,
								speechTop: 45,
								speechLeft: 65
							}
							penguin = 
							{
								width: 128,
								height: 128,
								src: 'penguin.gif',
								adjustTop: 15,
								adjustLeft: 20,
								speechTop: 25,
								speechLeft: 65
							}
							myCritter = new JCritter(monkey);
							myCritter.draw();
							myCritter.show();
							myCritter.onClick = function()
							{
								myCritter.say('Stop clicking me!');
								myCritter.onClick = function()
								{
									myCritter.say('I said stop it!');
								}
							}
						}
	</script>
</head>
<body onunload="myCritter.destroy()" style="background-color:#FFB27F">
<div>
	<input type="text" id="foo"/><button onclick="if(document.getElementById('foo').value.match(/^\s*$/)){myCritter.say('You have to type <b>WORDS</b>, you banana head.')}else{myCritter.say(document.getElementById('foo').value)}">Say</button>
	<br/>Try these other commands too!<br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.hide();return false;">Hide</a><br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.show();return false;">Show</a><br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.hush();return false;">Hush</a><br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.mute();return false;">Mute</a><br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.unMute();return false;">UnMute</a><br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.setAgent(penguin);return false;">SetAgent(change to Penguin)</a><br/>
	<a href="#" onclick="myCritter.destroy();return false;">Destroy</a>
</div>
<div style="width:900px;height:1000px;">This is a really tall and wide div to demonstrate position: fixed  Ready?  Go!  Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</div>
</body>
</html>

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