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RE: Desktop pic proggy....

• Posted by Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Jun 19, 2003
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>From: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: Desktop pic proggy....
>
>
>>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
>> > > ||_    <-------------------/
>> > > \__| Mr Trick
>> > >=20
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>> >
>>
>>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
>