Set background image?

[RobertKipling]

How do you set the background image with a JPG (or HTML) file from Windows, where the Desktop Properties dialog box is unavailable? Is it in the registry (I hope not, it may be banned too) or accessible with AutoIt?

[aslani]

How do you set the background image with a JPG (or HTML) file from Windows, where the Desktop Properties dialog box is unavailable? Is it in the registry (I hope not, it may be banned too) or accessible with AutoIt?

Can't you simply right click on the Image and select "Set As Desktop Background"?

[DW1]

yes its in the reg.

[corz]

You could always send an image to IrfanView, using the /wall=X switch, e.g..

I_VIEW32.EXE "W:\media\wallpaper\Widescreen\glassorbs.jpg" /wall=1

Everyone has IrfanView installed, right?

;o)

(or

[JustinReno]

No, not everyone, I use PhotoFiltre, GIMP, and FSViewer32

[RobertKipling]

Just downloaded IrfanView. This program should be enough, the explanation is more than decent. Thank you.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2)
$mywin = Run("Y:\irfanview\i_view32.exe Y:\abc.png /wall=0", "",@SW_HIDE)
WinClose($mywin)
MsgBox(0,"","Done.")

Edited October 16, 2007 by RobertKipling

[Valuater]

Everyone has IrfanView installed, right?

Love it...

Been using Ifranview for over 4 years!!! (+/-)

8)

[ashley]

Love it...

Been using Ifranview for over 4 years!!! (+/-)

8)

whats Ifranview

[LarryDalooza]

whats Ifranview

ya know... they wrote "Google" for questions like this...

Lar.

[corz]

There's more info here.

;o)

(or

[corz]

Darn! I wish I'd refreshed the page before posting!

Anyway, ashley, let's pretend that you didn't read Lar's post, and clicked my link, thinking that I was spoon-feeding you the answer, and then BANG! You are at google, seeing the foolishness of your ways.

It's a more subtle approach, I find, to let folk be foolish in private!

;o)

(or

[LarryDalooza]

Darn! I wish I'd refreshed the page before posting!

Anyway, ashley, let's pretend that you didn't read Lar's post, and clicked my link, thinking that I was spoon-feeding you the answer, and then BANG! You are at google, seeing the foolishness of your ways.

It's a more subtle approach, I find, to let folk be foolish in private!

;o)

(or

Yes. Intolerance of stupidity causes insanity.

Lar.

[tAKTelapis]

For future reference, There is a reason the background tab has been disabled, Its so you don't set a background.

If it is disabled, you should probably just leave it alone and go back to your work, And learn something that will help you get a job later on in life.

Edited October 16, 2007 by tAKTelapis

[RobertKipling]

Actually, everything display-wise has been disabled. (Not fun.) Learning to change the background image is nothing more than child's play compared to real programming tasks, of course, but nonetheless is useful.