Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!relay.nswc.navy.mil!oasys!mimsy!dftsrv!oneel From: oneel@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: changing wall paper dynamically/xroach Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 13:58:05 GMT Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Distribution: comp Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa Lines: 30 I am jumping in to the deep end of windows programming by trying to write a version of xroach for windows. xroach is a roach/dirty apartment simulator for X windows. The basic idea is that the windows are hiding places and the background is the counter. When ever you move a hiding place the roaches hiding under that window scurry around the background until they find another hiding place. It's quite entertaining and brings back fond memories of college :-) So, I have a problem. I have BC++ and the SDK documentation from microsoft and have easily gotten a program to pop up a window and then display a roach looking bitmap within that window. Close, but not quite. I want those roaches on the background. I looks like an icon could do that and there is a program called cpuuse which changes an icon dynamically so that might work, but can I move those icons around on their own? So, the net problem (no pun intended) is that I want to move a bitmap/icon/what ever around the background. Is it possible? How do I do it? Thanks!!! bruce -- | Bruce O'Neel | internet : oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov| | Code 664/STX | span : lheavx::oneel | | NASA/GSFC Bld 28/W281 |compuserve: 72737,1315 | | Greenbelt MD 20771 | AT&Tnet : (301)-286-4585 | Thats me in the corner, thats me in the spotlight, losin' my religion -- rem