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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Wallpaper Question -- more info and a new problem!
Message-ID: <10958.270fce37@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 90 00:54:14 GMT
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Hi!

I have some more data for the "can't use xxxxx.bmp as wallpaper" problem:

A few weeks ago I downloaded jupiter.bmp, a 16 color 800x600 bitmap file.  I
set it up as wallpaper, but noticed that one of the planets was strangely 
cut off in its middle.  I assumed it was the product of a bad download, and
deleted it.  Then I saw this wallpaper problem topic, and downloaded it again.
This time I got that enormously helpful error message.  But it worked last
time!

I took the memory shortage hint that someone posted to heart and closed up all
my other apps except Program Manager (With the apps running I had 72% free 
resources and about 506K memory on my 1 MB RAM 12MHz 286).  With the apps gone
(78% free resources, 576KB available) the bitmap loaded in.  So it was the
lack of memory, it seems.  But the planet was still truncated.

Now here's the really strange part:
I decided to edit the bitmap using Paintbrush, and when I loaded it in, it was
different than the version appearing as background.  In Paintbrush's version
the truncated planet was in the bottom corner, where, apparently, it was
supposed to be.  What was happening was that Control Panel was placing the
bottom half of the bitmap at the top of the screen and vice-versa!  (Could it
have been trying to tile the bmp, despite my having selected "center"?)

The only other 800x600 bmp I have (wet-t --- Sorry, it's the only one I've
found) works fine with no problems.  But then it is in B&W and thus much
smaller.  

FYI: I'm using a 512K ATI (No 256 color driver @#$%@#$ !!! :-)  VGAWONDER card 
with their 800x600x16 driver.  (Could it be the driver's fault? Or is this 
problem the product of a short-sighted machine that holds max. 1 MB total RAM?)

Well, anyway, maybe this info will help someone figure out what exactly is
going on here, 'cause I sure would like to know.

Thank you,

Bryon Daly
daly@ecs.umass.edu        "How does this .signature thing work, anyway?"   ;-)