I'm hoping there's a way to play with environment variables to achieve this because I need to access this in a Windows command shell. I found the directory in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] Desktop, but I have no idea how to access this information from a command shell! %UserPr...
I have designed an desktop application using C#.net that has many users. Each USer has specific rights. The User logs into the system when the application first starts and the UserID number is stored and used throughout the app., but when they want to change user (UserID) they have to close the system down and start again. How would I go...
I'm a desktop application developer. I'm creating a basic website from which to sell an application I've written, and learning some web tech along the way, but haven't learnt that much yet (my chosen CMS - Textpattern - has saved me learning much PHP so far). I want my desktop application to call my website and say "I'm version x.x.x.x"...
What is the relation with Physics and techniques ? I am interested in learning the algorithms followed in this 3d photo viewer ePic. Any other known physics engine ? ...
Hi all, I'm trying to create a java desktop application that holds desktop icons. The app will be a menu/panel that is invisible until you hover your cursor near the top of the screen, at which point the menu full of desktop icons will drop down. To add new icons to the menu one must simply drag icons from the desktop into the menu and ...
I want to create a recording of desktop content, but without a certain window. The role of this window is to provide a text that will be read, while recording desktop changes. Any suggestions? ...
I like to use large icons on my desktop, but very often they back to normal size, still can't trace why :). As a programmer I decide to write my own utility for saving and restoring icons positions. Googling around doesn't give much info. Can anyone give me a hint or point to link where I could start? ...
Hi all. Lets say I have a plain window in C#. It has no border styles so it cannot be moved or resized etc. How would i position that window so it appears at the same level as the desktop or one above? Like a widget or a rainmeter skin. Any ideas? ...
how can i change desktop background with python i want to do it in both windows and linux thanks ...
how to notify my application when show desktop/minimize all/ all windows minimized using c# ...
I have a Java desktop application which uses mysql database . Is there any Open source software for packaging or executable wrapper of Mysql server and Java desktop application into one single Exe/Debian package where i need not separately install Mysql server separately . Its like one click installer which installs everything and the...
Is there a command to tell compiz that we want to bring in front and set focus to a specific window? How should we identify the window in that command? The reason behind this question is the following use-case: Suppose we have a wiki to keep notes of anything interesting we find out. It would be very convenient to have a keyboard short...
I'm writing a Windows batch file and want to copy something to the desktop. I think I can use this: %UserProfile%\Desktop\ However, I'm thinking, that's probably only going to work on an English OS. Is there a way I can do this in a batch file that will work on any internationalized version? UPDATE I tried the following batch f...
Hello I wish to enumerate all desktops in a system and get the logged in user name for that desktop. So far I have the following code snippit as an example of obtaining a HDESK handle and trying to determine the user name associated with it (if any), but the call to LookupAccountSid fails with ERROR_NONE_MAPPED ("No mapping between acco...
Hello all, Long title, but simple problem. I am trying to let a window stick to the destop (or pin), I can do this like this: [DllImport("User32.dll")] static extern IntPtr FindWindow(String lpClassName, String lpWindowName); [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr hwndPa...
How to change the Windows Application's default icon with other one in C# desktop application. I am trying to change it in Setup Project but it is not. I want to show my own icon with Application's shortcut rather then windows default icon ...
I am looking to create a very simple C# application which runs Full-Screen in Direct3D, and is able to grab the Desktop 'scene', mapping each Window from the Desktop to a Textured Polygon in my D3D Scene... I'm hoping to create a simplistic "3D Desktop" type of application as an experiment, and I'm wondering if there is a specific metho...
I am trying to pin a form to the desktop, like the gadget sidebar. It should not be affected by Win+D and Show desktop buttons. Which is the best methode for this? I can find the Progman and set the parent of my form to this, but I read it's not the best way. ...
Here are my requirements for a very very simple desktop gui I need to make. Totally standalone - Needs to be double clickable with out the reliance on having anything installed on the users machine. Simple GUI - Bare bones. Will be loading a list from a file that will be stored in a dropdown or w/e. Rock solid on Windows distributi...
I have this old Fortran executable that can only be accessed through its GUI, and is too complicated to rewrite. I need to integrate it into a tool we are building, so I wrote a GUI wrapper in C# using the White library (certainly not ideal, but I couldn't think of a better approach). This works ok, but when my program runs, the GUI po...