I have been asked to standardize the screen saver and desktop background used by everyone in my company and, aside from going around to each PC individually, I'm looking for a programmatic way to accomplish this. I am not a systems admin, so have never crossed this bridge before. It is also worth noting that most PCs are running Window...
I have an app which could benefit from the user being able to choose to set an image as the wallpaper (the background image on the "slide to unlock" screen). Is there a way for non-jailbreak third-party apps to do this? A search for "wallpaper" in the iPhone documentation returns nothing. ...
How do I get the current wallpaper on a Mac? Just point me to an API function so I can Google more. Edit: I think I found it. [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] mentioned at http://lists.apple.com/archives/student-dev/2004/Aug/msg00140.html Also possible from shell: defaults read com.apple.desktop Background And from AppleScript: h...
Hi! In Latex how can you make the background image to occupy the whole sheet on every page except a certain stripe on the inner side of each page? I can't figure it out. I have a background image I'd like to be seen in whole on each page after printing/binding. Matyi ...
A good wallpaper reflects our personality? Programmers usually use the same kind of geeky wallpapers (Matrix, Star Wars, Abstract Art) and we like to impress friend and co-workers. ...
How can I add a background image to my delphi form? I added a TImage, but now the labels aren't visible any more, and the texts of my checkboxes are in a blue "box" (blue is the background color i chose). This blue doesn't look very good on the background image, and the hidden labels also don't look good. How do I fix these problems? ...
Ive narrowed down to this method but i don't understand why its locking the file. I believe you could use something like using( something) { //do stuff here } But im not sure that would A) solve the issue or B) be the correct way if it did. any ideas? [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]private static extern Int32 Syst...
I'd like to do some custom drawing to my windows desktop such that it appears to replace the desktop background (wallpaper). My first try was to get a DC for the desktop's listview and draw to it: IntPtr desktopDC = GetWindowDC(desktopListView); Graphics g = Graphics.FromHwnd(desktopDC); <-- fails on out of memory error I then tried t...
Im making a simple wallpaper changer. It works when changing the wallpaper but i cant change the pattern of the wallpaper. I tried something like this but it doesnt work :S SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKPATTERN, 0, "Center", SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE); Can some1 please show me the proper way of setting the wallpaper...
How can I change the desktop wallpaper using C# Code? ...
How using qdbus or any other tool I can change KDE4.2 Plasma wallpaper? I tried feh and wmsetbg but they don't change my background. The only thing that works so far is kwriteconfig, but I have to restart x server after that. ...
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? ...
Hello, I'm trying to trigger a desktop slideshow change but I can't find a public API to do it... The closer I got was to see the name of the methods that are using (they are using a COM object, but I don't know the CLSID to instantiate it). I already know how to change the desktop wallpaper (i'm doing that already), what I want is a w...
I understand that there is no way to set a user's wallpaper, but the apple program Voice Memos temporarily changes the locked screen while recording. This lets you know that the app is still recording, and even has a little red bar at the top showing you how many seconds have passed. Is it possible for me to do this while my app is run...
I'm starting a project to make a wall paper rotator for computers with multiple monitors. 1) how do you detect the monitors in windows and the associated resolution 2) how would i set the image per monitor. do I make one image that's crafted together or do I set each one individually and how? thanks ...
To do this manual i just pick a html file in the change wallpaper dialog and tada works.. but if i want to do this from code what api calls / reg keys must i change? Iv tryed this SystemParametersInfo (WinAPI) didnt work and i have found out that "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\Wallpaper" and "HK...
I have a code snippet to set a single image across both monitors but I recently got a second monitor for my laptop and I wanted to modify my code to account for setting a diffrent image to each monitor. Any ideas? (this code snipet for single monitor is: [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] private static extern I...
I readed on a forum that the "Next Desktop Background" command in Windows Aero Slideshow feature calls the stobject.dll file. So I runned the dumpbin to check wheter I could se an exported method to call: Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\dumpbin.exe /EXPORTS Windows\System32\stobject.dll Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 9.00....
I'm trying to make an application that needs to draw on the desktop, behind the icons so it appears to replace the desktop wallpaper. I've found a few solutions to this, but most of them didn't work very well (lots of flickering). One solution seems to be what I'm looking for, but I don't really get it. I've done mostly C# applications u...
Does anybody has an idea how to invoke 'Next Desktop Background' command in Windows 7. This is when you have a slide show desktop wallpaper and this command in on the context menu of the desktop? Command line option will be great. ...