Re: [flexcoders] Creating Moving Desktop (AIR)

2008-07-11 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2008, armyofnuubs wrote:
> if there is any way that one can manipulate the desktop using flash?

No.
Would you want a random web site changing your wall paper to adverts ?

> Dreamscape(or is it dreamscene) for vista ultimate.  This is more of a
> personal project in which i hope to learn about leaving small memory

Certainly on Windows, there is a special file name under c:\windows for the 
current back ground image iirc, and you can overwrite that from AIR using the 
file IO.
Linux doesn't do anything so silly, and I expect Mac doesn't either.

You can request the user sets their back ground picture to a file under your 
control, but I don't know if any of the three O/S will poll that file for 
changes consistently, and even if they do you probably can't alter their 
frequency.

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[flexcoders] Creating Moving Desktop (AIR)

2008-07-09 Thread armyofnuubs
Hi All,

just joined this group but have been reviewing it for "how tos" in
flex for the last 6 months.  Well here is my question: i was wondering
if there is any way that one can manipulate the desktop using flash? 
Any help, or direction much appreciated. 

Some background, i am trying to build a moving desktop a la
Dreamscape(or is it dreamscene) for vista ultimate.  This is more of a
personal project in which i hope to learn about leaving small memory
footprints, video optimization, cpu cycle optimizations, general
application optimizations, as well as application architecting among
other things.  

I have tried using flash.desktop but that really does not have
anything useful that i could find.  I have gone through the Screen
package, but have failed to find anything that would be useful.

Thanks.