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.

Try this..

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 !

Glome

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.

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.

The path to the currently selected wallpaper is stored as a registry key:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper"

You'll either need to crawl into the SDK and create a DLL to retrieve this or use a pre-made DLL function for same.

=thomas

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.

alright guys, thanks. I'll try it out.