- Wallpaper wizard artifact windows 7#
- Wallpaper wizard artifact windows#
Of course, if that's possible then it may be possible also to get the handle of the desktop window behind the icons.
Enable active desktop and set the web page to be your desktopĪnother post there suggests that you could possibly do this with the background of an explorer window - if you could get the handle of the window that constitutes it. Embed the ActiveX control in a web page. Embed the user control in an ActiveX control. Wallpaper wizard artifact windows#
Create your user control in a windows control library. overwriting the desktop then overlaying a transparent window containing a view of the contents of some folder.ĭoes anyone have any idea of what I should be doing, or even whether what I want to do is possible? It seems you can draw to the desktop background using the GDI (as I believe the wxSnow program does), and I've seen something similar to what I want done by VLC Media Player under Windows XP with its DirectX wallpaper mode (interestingly, I can't seem to get this option enabled on my system). The only solution then would be to not use the desktop for icons, or to find some alternative, e.g. It looks as though the desktop wallpaper is background to the folder view containing the icons, and therefore what I am trying to do cannot work. If I create a Windows form, set its parent to SHELLDLL_DefView using SetParent() and then use SetWindowPos to play with its Z-order I can only seem to get it to go either behind the desktop wallpaper or in front of the desktop + icons. If I hook up a DirectX device to this handle, I can draw over the entire desktop, but it also covers the icons. If I navigate the Window heirarchy starting from the handle returned by GetDesktopWindow(), I can go Desktop -> WorkerW -> SHELLDLL_DefView -> SysListView32. I've tried both these, but neither seems to work. I'm not brilliant with native Windows programming, but I've had a poke around online and I believe what I need to do is either:ġ) Find the handle of the window containing the dekstop wallpaper, hook it up to a DirectX device and draw into it.Ģ) Make a new output window, and insert it above the desktop wallpaper but below the desktop icons. I'm using C#, SlimDX and a couple of P/Invoke imports of Windows API functions. Wallpaper wizard artifact windows 7#
I'd like to make an animated desktop background for Windows 7 using DirectX.
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