--- In [email protected], "brucexs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I felt to be in a maze while reading about gdiplus. I got the > > feeling it resembles very much the COM/OLE interface: > > Are you reading the docs on the C++ interface or the flat one (ie > the one your script uses)? I could never find useful documentation > for the flat (C) interface and would not want to try to work with it > from the brief stuff I saw on MS site.
I was reading both, however, mainly on Flat APIs. > The C++ one is not bad. You basically have to create Graphics and > Image objects and work with them, plus some supporting objects like > Color and RectFs. You could create corresponding PowerPro objects > in a plugin if you wanted to play around with C++. > > > Would it be messy to implement this instead in PP? > > Probalbly not, but I won't as a spur to get you interested in > plugins. Now I don't think the coding part is difficult, what obstructs proceeding is compiling and debugging parts. The problem is the fact that I've never compiled until now, and I don't want the would-be plugin to be a resource hogger/leaker. BTW, I don't even have a compiler. Are there good free compilers around? (I recalled Alan once suggested one, but, the name just escaped me) > Anyway, it appears XP allows you just to set jpg files as wallpaper, > at least from display properties, so maybe I should just remove the > call to the jpeg dll? But this may require SP2. Did you try that? > I think you can set the wallpaper with systemparametersinfo? But I > am going from memory. I suppose this feature was on from the release of XP. Actually, I used a different method: switch to Thumb nail view mode in the explorer, right-click context menu, press "B". I think both uses IActiveDesktop interface. I found my post on this. Wow, it was two years ago: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/message/19132 Sean Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
