I've read in a couple of places that the desktop wallpaper can be set to an HTML document. Has anyone had any success changing it programmatically? The following snippet of VB6 helps me set things up for BMPs but when I try to use it for HTML, I get a nice blue background and nothing else. Dim reg As New StdRegistry Public Function C...
On X Windows I had a cool 'silent-alarm" reminder script that would change my root window (background) color to solid red, just for a few seconds a few moments before changing it back. Is there a way to do this for Windows XP? I'm thinking some kind of scheduled task that uses cscript to set registry keys (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Pane...
I've built a simple application that applies grid-lines to an image or just simple colors for use as desktop wallpaper. The idea is that the desktop icons can be arranged within the grid. The problem is that depending on more things than I understand the actual spacing in pixels seems to be different from system to system. I've learned t...
Hi, I would like to write a small Windows application which changes the desktop wallpaper based on photographs retrieved from a web service ? How should I go about this ? Which language / technology would this be the quickest to code in ? ...
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How would I change the wallpaper on a Linux desktop (using GNOME) within a C/C++ program? Is there a system API to do it? ...
I have figured out how to change the desktop wallpaper (there are dozens of examples on the Internet.) One thing that still eludes me: how do I detect when the wallpaper has changed? (Say via the Display control panel or another program changing it.) ...
I was just wondering where the /File/System/Location/ of a users current wallpaper is stored in OS X 10.5. Something like how the default login windows wallpaper is stored at /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg ...
There are some iPad applications that show a current wallpaper through their windows. How do they do it? Thanks ...
Hi, I've been trying to write an application, using Qt and mingw32, to download images and set them as the background Wallpaper. I have read several articles online about how to do this, in VB and C#, and to some extent how to do it in c++. I am currently calling the SystemParametersInfo with what seems to be all the correct arguments (...