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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Having a picture in the background of one's workbench...
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 03:39:19 EDT
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In article <275@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka) writes:
>
>...Well, I have asked everyone I know around here how to do this, and they all
>pretty much say, "I think it can be done, but I don't know how."  I also
>have seen the various programs that display patterns in the background.  But
>what about full, one bitplane pictures?...

Fish disk #90 has an "lines" demo that runs AS the background.  If you want
a static picture it is real easy.  Find the size of the Workbench with
GetScreenData(), open a full screen borderless, backdrop, smart_refresh,
nocarerefresh window and load the picture into it.  done.

The only problem is that this blows away the Workbench tool's backdrop
window so you can't use the icon interface to AmigaDOS.  The real hack
would be to find that window and lobotomize it or it's refresh code.  This
sounds possible, but ugly.

 
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