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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ok, now how do I make a backgrounder for GS/OS?
Message-ID: <35219@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 17:56:07 GMT
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In article <12107@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>Muchas Gracias, Dave, but where can I get an NDA, say, that implements this?
>Come to think of it, does the system [...] recognize something like a file
>in system.setup called deskpicture (or something like that) or do I have to
>write something myself?

Nope, the system doesn't automatically look for a picture to use for the
desktop.

>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 [...]

You can do it from P8 with no problem, but you have to do it every time you
boot (the MessageCenter loses its contents when you boot).  An NDA or CDev
would be a good solution.  Or even a Temporary Init File that just loads a
picture with a predetermined name (like *:System:DeskPicture, for example).

>Is there anywhere I can get an NDA to do this?

I don't know of one offhand.  (Go for it!)

>Todd P Whitesel
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