Active desktop PHP/HTML/JS/VBS
Here's an idea that I came up with out of sheer boredom:
To create a PHP/HTML active desktop object that displays thumbnails of images randomly selected from a (rather large) database of images. The object appears as a small sidebar from which an image can be selected, which then changes the desktop wallpaper.
The PHP part is easy enough as I have Xitami running and I already have the DB of images. The problem is changing the wallpaper (like IE does with the Set As Wallpaper option), and maybe even manipulating (hiding/showing) the sidebar upon mousemoving actions.
I know I'll probably end up writing a compiled program for this, but I'd just like to know if it's possible with webpages.
So does anyone know how the wallpaper bit works? Using JS, or more likely VBS, on Windows 2k.
ROB posted this at 00:57 — 6th June 2002.
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found this: http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html
scroll almost all the way to the bottom and look for JSSys.dll
Mark Hensler posted this at 03:53 — 6th June 2002.
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Oh cool... let me know if you ever get a working copy. That would be fun!
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 05:21 — 6th June 2002.
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HS - thanks.
Looks like exactly what I was looking for.
MH - I'll post here anything I come up with.
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