This is an app that makes a pony walk across my taskbar. I got these GIFs from the Desktop Ponies application (CC-BY-NC-SA-3) but the app was too... busy... for what I wanted. I also didn't want ponies all over my bloody desktop. I just want the one to traverse across the taskbar.

• Web Page: http://catch404.net/projects/ponyapp/
• Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdITEc4gmpo&hd=1
• Downloads: http://catch404.net/files/ponyapp/
• Questions, Comments, Suggestions: Email bob at catch404 dot net

Eventually I want to make her do work for me, like if I click her and just type "google whatever" she starts up chrome and does it.

• Pony

• She wanders across the taskbar as she wants to.
• You can right click and tell her to stand off to the left or right side of the screen. She'll trot over there and be pretty off in the corner.
• If you pet her too much (double click) she becomes clingy...

• Rename this app to something that is at least 20% cooler.
• Find someone who can remake the same GIFs in high detail instead of lol pixel art.
• Some ponies need more animations... Like Rarity has no sleep animation even though Rainbow Dash and some others do. Its just a pile of GIF files from that other project shrug

This is a Visual C# Project. I don't know jack about what I am doing. Therefore I COMMITED ALL THE THINGS to the Githubs including that solution and options file and whatever else is in this cluster folder. If that was wrong oh well. I don't even know WTF a solution is. Where I come from the solution is gcc app.c -o app and you're done. So.

I have never written a line of C# in my life until now. This could be the worst application ever written in that language I have no clue. This is my learning introduction project. My knowledge of the language comes purely from reading what Visual Studio bitches about when I do something dumb, and my experience in real languages like straight C.

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That joke aside, it actually is an interesting language. So far I am enjoying myself... but I'm also getting a pony out of it as a reward so that might just be a novelty feeling.

The only reason I went with C# was because GTK still does not support RGBA colormaps on Windows. Durr. This would have been a PHP-GTK app if not for that. Windows WPF was the only thing that would render a transparent window without me having to do 400 lines of code so here it is.

Not affiliated with Hasbro... duh.

I did not make the artwork. They are animated GIF's from the project on http://desktopponies.com/ - And they are awesome.

My code and all that is 2-Clause BSD. That should be liberal enough to comply with the project I lifted the GIFs from yeah?

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