Wallpaper board

[Michael Vogel]

Hi,
I posted some times ago some code snippets for drawing a calendar (in a box with rounded corners ) and some other things, now I have finished my "wallpaper board", which creates a wallpaper showing me some information, like the date, user name, actual IP-address etc.



Because I hate documenting, you may have to play around to get the results you like to see – but I am (relatively) sure, that you will get all functions, you need for generating a wallpaper

Just some notes for configuring the three information boxes:
• tags of the form [?] are used to change the content of each box, "?" has to be replaced by one of these characters (try upper and lower case):
• t: day
• m: month (n: name of month)
• j: year
• w: day of week
• a: calendar week (ISO)
• u: user
• c: computer
• *: IP-address(es)
• o: moon phase
• # calender icon


There is many more to find – maybe I will give some additional hints, if needed

One issue – even nobody would recognize it – is still present: a small part of certain characters may get lost when using an italics font. Because this is a PB bug, you have to live with this...

[IdeasVacuum]

A really nice app! Clever graphics, I really like the Moon thing. Unfortunately, it doesn't suit my desktop as it is littered with a gazillion icons and stickie-notes.

[Little John]

Hi Michael,

that looks nice.
But how can I change the background color, and how can I hide logo and user name?

Regards, Little John

[Michael Vogel]

Thanks!

A really nice app! Clever graphics, I really like the Moon thing. Unfortunately, it doesn't suit my desktop as it is littered with a gazillion icons and stickie-notes.

Yes, I know... my first version just had some text because of that – and it also the reason, why text size and the pictures can be scaled (or even be disabled, just set the photo size = 0 )
BTW there are two moon symbols, one classic symbol ([o]), which will be shown only four times a (moon) month, and the modern style [O]...

But how can I change the background color, and how can I hide logo and user name?

Shouldn't be a problem, first of all: change the board theme setting, let's say to this: Standard=1234 (the ciphers from left to right define the color set, date, logo and user field.
Now you can add/modify your personal settings in the given sections:
[Color]
1=RRGBS
[Date]
2 = [#]
[Logo]
3 = No Logo!
[User]
4= No User, but [*]
[/b]

Hope, that helps - oh, each character in the color setting from left to right: background when in user mode, admin mode, then the colors for the date, logo and user field. Each character represents a color (r=red and so on, there are also 0-9 for grey shades, *=random and #=random grey).

[Little John]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your reply.

But how can I change the background color, and how can I hide logo and user name?

[Logo]
3 = No Logo!
[User]
4= No User, but [*][/b]

It seems there was a misundertanding. I only want to display a background color and the date, nothing else. Is that possible?

E.g. 3 = No Logo! shows the string "No Logo!". That's not what I want.
I also tried 3 =. That shows something that looks like a stamp.

Regards, Little John

[MachineCode]

which creates a wallpaper

You know this app will be useless on Windows 8, right? Metro = No more wallpaper apps.

[Michael Vogel]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your reply.

But how can I change the background color, and how can I hide logo and user name?

[Logo]
3 = No Logo!
[User]
4= No User, but [*][/b]

It seems there was a misundertanding. I only want to display a background color and the date, nothing else. Is that possible?

E.g. 3 = No Logo! shows the string "No Logo!". That's not what I want.
I also tried 3 =. That shows something that looks like a stamp.

Regards, Little John

Two possibilities:
You get a small (empty) box using 3=[V]
You can put [t], [M] and [J] in different boxes (hint: gap and color settings should do the rest)

Michael

[Michael Vogel]

which creates a wallpaper

You know this app will be useless on Windows 8, right? Metro = No more wallpaper apps.

Oh, my god - I even didn't know, I wrote an app.

If you would have told me that some days earlier, I would never have written this program. I have to delete it now, and we should start removing all kind of code which won't make sense with Windows 8 to make the world cleaner

[MachineCode]

I was badmouthing Windows 8, not your app.

[Kuron]

I have to delete it now, and we should start removing all kind of code which won't make sense with Windows 8 to make the world cleaner

Good thing Metro can be disabled on the desktop version of Windows 8, so we will be needing wallpaper for a long time to come.

[Michael Vogel]

I was badmouthing Windows 8, not your app.

Thank you, I will undelete all my files now

[MachineCode]

Again Michael: I'm not saying anything is wrong with your app. I don't get your responses?

[Michael Vogel]

Again Michael: I'm not saying anything is wrong with your app. I don't get your responses?

Comm'on, there was already a smiley in my posting, should I add some more?

Hope, now everything's ok again

[Kuron]

Fear the Duck!

[Michael Vogel]

Fear the Duck!

Oh no, what have I done


@Little John, everything ok for you, or should I make some changes to allow hiding unwanted boxes?