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RE: Desktop pic proggy....

• Posted by Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Jun 18, 2003
• 451 views

>From: Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com>
>Subject: RE: Desktop pic proggy....
>
>
>Tone =8Akoda wrote:
> >
> >
> > You can make you own, using:
> >
> > success =3D w32Func (xSystemParametersInfo, {SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER,
> >                 0, dest_fname, 0})
> >
> > and use FreeLib to convert jpg to bmp.
> >
> > Then you could set Windows scheduler to execute this program every hour.
> >
> > I wrote a program which sets desktop wallpaper from jpg image and
> > writes=
> > =20
> > today's date onto image.
> >
> >
> > mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > Can anyone recommend a simple desktop wallpaper program?
> > > I'd like to be able to point it at a directory full of pics and have 
>it=
> > =20
> > > auto-change ever few hours or so....
> > >=20
> > > *Free
> > > *No spyware
> > >=20
> > > 
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> > >
> > 
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> >
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > > .______<-------------------\__
> > > / _____<--------------------__|=3D=3D=3D
> > > ||_    <-------------------/
> > > \__| Mr Trick
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> >
>
>Hi there Tone,
>
>You can use my Jpg decoder too, as this makes another file from
>your Jpg file (i think it was named Als_DJ.exe) and it's a small
>exe file.
>
>I'm finding the GD lib to be faster when you want to display a
>jpg though, but the darn lib is over 700k.  Im thinking of
>building a smaller version that only does decoding perhaps.

  That's because Windows does not include all the wonderful libraries the 
world of *nix has. In fact, the FreeType library takes up almost half of the 
DLL (359 K). LibPNG is 167K, JpegLib is 137K, and Zlib takes up a whopping 
63K. The actual GD part is only 202K. All compiled together, it gets lumped 
into a DLL of 711K. I believe I put a small note (perhaps too small) in 
there that if you wanted a smaller version, I could compile it for you.

>Take care for now,
>Al


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