I know I've asked this before, but does anyone know a way to make an in-game bitmap set itself as the same bitmap that's being used as the windows desktop? Any DLL's or scripts or anything that can do this? Please help, I'm desperate.
Re: Someone Help Me Please!#8892 04/27/0207:1104/27/0207:11
Go to your desktop. make sure no programs are cluttering the screen. Press the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard. Now, open up a paint program and select *paste*. You should now have a Bmp picture of your desktop. As for making the engine create a panel with an end-user's desktop image, I have not a clue !
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Re: Someone Help Me Please!#8893 04/30/0200:0004/30/0200:00
Well, I know how to print screen, I just want GameStudio to be able to print it for me. Is there a way to detect the path needed for the Windows wallpaper file? If I could just do that, it would be perfect.
Re: Someone Help Me Please!#8894 04/30/0200:0604/30/0200:06
That's kinda tricky since each version of Windows stores it in a different place. But you should be able to make the game grab a screen, save it to BMP, then have the game change the registry entry for the default bitmap to the folder where the game is stored for the BMP file. I think that's how to do it, but how to implement it is beyond me.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that someone was working on an ingame registry DLL. It might be worth posting your question on the Higher Language forum.
Re: Someone Help Me Please!#8897 04/30/0223:4104/30/0223:41