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3tones
Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 45
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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 Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: AutoBackground - change background based on monitor config |
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I have a laptop with a docking station at work. When docked, there is a second monitor to extend my desktop. Ryan over at http://www.digitalblasphemy.com has been gracious enough to provide awesome dual and triple monitor backgrounds, but when I am down to one monitor on my laptop, I miss all the "action" of the background. So I wrote this script. If my display changes the script will pick the background accordingly. It's pretty simple, but I havn't seen anything like it.
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;AutoBackground
;tom at 3shizzletones.com (take out the shizzle)
; http://www.3tones.com
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;Built with AutoHotKey v1.0.44.10 and tested on Windows XP
; http://www.autohotkey.com
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;9/21/06
;added style function
;change method of changing background to using a dllcall
;check background on login
WM_DISPLAYCHANGE(0,0)
OnMessage(0x7E, "WM_DISPLAYCHANGE")
return
WM_DISPLAYCHANGE(wParam, lParam)
{
;WM_DISPLAYCHANGE is triggered any time a change is made to the display settings
;get the monitor count
SysGet, mc, MonitorCount
if mc = 1
{
;if 1 monitor, use this background
background_file = C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Pictures\serenade.bmp
;set tile and style accordingly
SetWallpaperStyle("Tiled")
;set background file
DllCall("SystemParametersInfo", UInt, 0x14, UInt, 0, Str, background_file, UInt, 2)
}
else if mc = 2
{
;if 2 monitors, use this background
background_file = C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Pictures\reverie2x.bmp
;set tile and style accordingly
SetWallpaperStyle("Tiled")
;set background file
DllCall("SystemParametersInfo", UInt, 0x14, UInt, 0, Str, background_file, UInt, 2)
}
}
SetWallpaperStyle(style)
{
;for tiled, use TileWallpaper=1 WallpaperStyle=0
;for centered, use TileWallpaper=0 WallpaperStyle=0
;for strech, use TileWallpaper=0 WallpaperStyle=2
if style=Tiled
{
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Desktop, TileWallpaper, 1
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Desktop, WallpaperStyle, 0
}
else if style=Centered
{
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Desktop, TileWallpaper, 0
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Desktop, WallpaperStyle, 0
}
else if style=Streched
{
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Desktop, TileWallpaper, 0
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Desktop, WallpaperStyle, 2
}
}
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Veovis
Joined: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 390
Location: Utah
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome! Thank you so much! to buy a program that does excactly this is like 20 dollars and is so frivilous to manage... where as this gives perfect control of what i want and its so easy. Thanks!
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3tones
Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 45
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| Veovis wrote: | | Awesome! Thank you so much! to buy a program that does excactly this is like 20 dollars and is so frivilous to manage... where as this gives perfect control of what i want and its so easy. Thanks! |
Glad I could help. I have one more mod... I need to make it check the monitors and set the background on login. I often log out and suspend my laptop when I undock it. This should be as simple as having it run the check/set routine when the script is first run. |
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aCkRiTe
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Posts: 517
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:52 am Post subject: |
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just on a whim tonight i thought of making a wallpaper/background changer script and im in the process of doing so, then i come in to the fourm to look around and i see this!  not excatly what im trying to do, but along the same line. anyways i wanted to let you know about this
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; Example: Change the desktop wallpaper to the specified bitmap (.bmp) file.
DllCall("SystemParametersInfo", UInt, 0x14, UInt, 0, Str, A_WinDir . "\winnt.bmp", UInt, 2)
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this is under the dllcall command. i was going about it the same way you were then i came across this after doing about and hour and a half of researching on the web and in the help file.  hope this might be of help to ya... |
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3tones
Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 45
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| aCkRiTe, thanks for the suggestion. I have updated my first post with the changes. What is your background script going to do? I was thinking of adding a gui to mine and also having it change background based on time. |
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aCkRiTe
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Posts: 517
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| well i found that bit in the manual and though it might help, thats just if your using bitmap images though. since i wanted to be able to use any image type i ended up going through the registry in my script like you did. look in the scripts section and you should see mine in there. i posted it fairly recently. let me know what ya think. |
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