Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: ok, now how do I make a backgrounder for GS/OS? Message-ID: <12107@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 03:28:43 GMT Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Todd P. Whitesel) Distribution: comp.sys.apple Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 31 Muchas Gracias, Dave, but where can I get an NDA, say, that implements this? Come to think of it, does the system (5.0.1) recognize something like a file in system.setup called deskpicture (or something like that) or do I have to write something myself? To get this running, I would have to: get a 32006 byte handle read in the file call Message Center w/ type 2 and exit. now I doubt a P8 application (which is all I am confident about being able to write right now) can do the handle allocation part, or does the P8 loader just allocate all of banks 0-1 (makes sense I guess)? In any case the best solution is an NDA that lets one select a new picture and optionally save it back onto the boot disk (assume automatic installation on bootup), so I get back to the original question: Is there anywhere I can get an NDA to do this? Thanks in advance from anybody with the info. If nobody knows of one I will be learning NDA programming soon anyway so my first project will be such an NDA to be released as FreeWare. Mural, by the way, has no ____Ware marking on it, so I am treating it as Free in the abscence of evidence to the contrary. If anyone would like, I will run it through ShrinkIt and Binscii and post. Todd P Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu toddpw @ CITROMEO (bitnet)