Random Wallpaper Changer Using Tagged Images?

Jan 11, 2009

I wish to make a wallpaper changer that can select a random wallpaper from a given directory and sub directories. I'm not asking for code at this point, I'd like a reality check to see how hard this could be. I'm still quite a newbie at VB so I just wanna check if what I'm thinking process wise would work.The basic thing I'd like to do is have it pick one picture out of a given dir and sub dirs. Then set it as the wallpaper. I'd like it to be resized if larger than the desktops resolution to fit inside it, no stretching cropping or stuff.

That's the simple things I'd like it to do. Unfortunately I have dual monitors so it'd have to pick two wallpapers, resize each one independently, stick them together, and then set the wallpaper. I'd also like to make a kind of simple database which would have the name of each pic and two values with it. I'd like a value to mark if it's been used already which would be reset when all pictures have been used. The second would be a simple tag. This way i could have all car wallpapers listed as tag 1 and all non-car wallpapers listed as tag 2. Then I could chose whether to use all or only tagged wallpapers.

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Wallpaper Changer Class - Class To Change The Wallpaper In Winxp And Win7

Jun 12, 2011

here a simple class to change the wallpaper in winxp and win7. i think it will work on every windows version.

[Code]...

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Windows 7 Wallpaper Changer?

Jan 8, 2010

I have windows 7 background setup as a slideshow to change picture every 30 min. But when i use SystemParametersInfo in my program to set the wallpaper so i can see how it looks on screen, the wallpaper no long change like a slideshow. How can i display an image in the background but keep the current desktop background setting unchanged so that it will stay a slideshow on the location it was set?

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VS 2008 Desktop Wallpaper Changer?

Feb 2, 2010

im making a Desktop Wallpaper Changer, using a timer to change the wallpaper after a select interval. I have 13 images in my directory numbered 1-13.

But im getting an error when it reaches 13 , is there any way i can maybe loop it ? so that it select no.1 again and repeats the process?

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Forms :: Wallpaper Desktop Changer With Animation

Jul 15, 2011

I've created a desktop wallpaper changer and added some animation part to it.

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Wallpaper Changer Only Semi Works While Minimized

Aug 5, 2009

iv been making a automatic wallpaper changer useing the timer, listbox, and picturebox , it works, untill i minimize it then it stops changeing the background, but when i maximize it it has actually moved down the listbox of pictures each time so the timer must be working when minimized, just it doesnt change the wallpaper when its maximized it always works,

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Li/ul Tagged 'Menu' Not Working?

Jun 28, 2011

I have a "menubar" of sorts on my aspx page (jsddm). The items appear when the mouse hovers over the top-level menu item, and disappear when the mouse leaves. When I hit F5 on my virtual machine it works great (my vm is running Win 2003 server and using IE 8.0.6001.18702, also runs VS2008).However, when I publish it (hosted in IIS on the same VM) and try to view it from my regular machine (Win 7 with IE 8.0.7600.16385) the little buggers won't work properly.

#jsddm
{ margin: 0;
padding: 0;}

[code]....

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Flashing Random Images In Pic Box?

Feb 7, 2009

What would be the way to display random images in a picture box?When form opens, picture box displays random images, one after another (animated).When person pressed stop button, images stop randomly.

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How To Show Random Images In Three PictureBoxes

Aug 26, 2009

I am writing a program that shows random images in three picture boxes. When I open the program the initial images are in the picture boxes. When I click stop, the program is supposed to select a random image out of five. in each picture box. However, when I click start the images go away and when I click stop, no images appear. There is also a message that is supposed to come up on the screen, which it does. I just can't get the images to show. I am using Visual Basic 2005.

My code is below:
Public
Class videoBonanzaForm
Private images() = {image1, image2, image3, image4, image5}
Private image1 As Image = Image.FromFile("sevenpounds.gif")
Private image2 As Image = Image.FromFile("push.gif")
[Code] ......

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Generate Random Images Without Repeat Using Hashset?

Jan 10, 2010

I am trying to generate random images from access database using hashset as it is said to be unique and there won't be any repeated images appearing. But, it doesn't seem to work. ow can i get it to work? By the way, i am very new to the concept of hashset.

Private Function GetImageFromByteArray(ByVal picData As Byte()) As Image
If picData Is Nothing Then
Return Nothing

[code].....

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VS 2008 Selecting Random Images From A Directory?

Feb 4, 2010

Heres the code im using to select images from a directory , i also have a timer delay between each image , but my problem is when i start my app , it start by selectind image 1 (Images are numbered 1-15) but i want to select the images randomly ?

Private Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal uAction As Integer, ByVal uParam As Integer, ByVal lpvParam As String, ByVal fuWinIni As Integer) As Integer

[code].....

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VS 2010 : Display Random Images From A Web Folder?

Feb 6, 2012

What I want is when the program Loads, it would display random images from a folder on a website to a picturebox, like: [URL]thats a random pic but, [URL] is the folder of the image?

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How To Generate Random Images From Access Database Using Hashset?

Jun 22, 2010

I am trying to generate random images from access database using hashset as it is said to be unique and there won't be any repeated images appearing. But, it doesn't seem to work.

How can i get it to work? By the way, i am very new to the concept of hashset.
Private Function GetImageFromByteArray(ByVal picData As Byte()) As Image
If picData Is Nothing Then
Return Nothing
End If

' is this is an embedded object?
Dim bmData As Integer = If((picData(0) = 21 AndAlso picData(1) = 28), 78, 0)

' load the picture
Dim img As Image = Nothing
Try
Dim ms As New MemoryStream(picData, bmData, picData.Length - bmData)
img = Image.FromStream(ms)
Catch
End Try

' return what we got
Return img

End Function

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Panel1.Visible = False
Panel2.Hide()


Dim conn As New OleDbConnection
Dim DA As OleDbDataAdapter
Dim DS As New DataSet


conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=db1.mdb;User Id=admin;Password=;"

DA = New OleDbDataAdapter("Select Empty, EmptyName, Target, TargetName from PicturesDisplayed", conn)
DA.Fill(DS)

Me.PictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage


Dim oledbconnection As OleDbConnection
oledbconnection = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorDesktopdb1.mdb;Jet OLEDB:System Database=system.mdw;")

oledbconnection.Open()
Dim command As OleDbCommand
command = New OleDbCommand("select count (*) from PicturesDisplayed", oledbconnection)
Dim count As Integer
count = command.ExecuteScalar()
oledbconnection.Close()


Dim randomImage As New HashSet(Of Integer)
' Create a integer and new Random object
Dim intPic As Integer
Dim rand As New Random

'Pick a random number between 0 and the number of images in database
intPic = rand.Next(0, count)
randomImage.Add(intPic)

PictureBox1.Height = 256
PictureBox1.Width = 256

PictureBox2.Height = 256
PictureBox2.Width = 256


Dim pic1x As Integer = _
(Me.ClientSize.Width - PictureBox1.Width) 2
Dim pic1y As Integer = _
(Me.ClientSize.Height - PictureBox1.Height) 2
PictureBox1.Location = New Point(pic1x, pic1y)


Dim pic2x As Integer = _
(Me.ClientSize.Width - PictureBox2.Width) 2
Dim pic2y As Integer = _
(Me.ClientSize.Height - PictureBox2.Height) 2
PictureBox2.Location = New Point(pic2x, pic2y)

' Now set the picturebox image equal to the image chosen from the array randomly using the random
PictureBox1.Image = GetImageFromByteArray(DS.Tables(0).Rows.Item(intPic).Item(0))
PictureBox1.Visible = True
PictureBox2.Image = GetImageFromByteArray(DS.Tables(0).Rows.Item(intPic).Item(2))
PictureBox2.Visible = False


If (randomImage.Count = count) Then
Me.Close()
End If

End Sub

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Simple Screen Size Changer

Nov 27, 2011

I want to make a simple screensaver but I looked at what others suggested on how to change screen resolutions and it seems a bit much. So I'm hoping their is a simple way to accomplish this task. Basicly I want the screen to fill reguarless of your screen resolution with the background image coded in the source code. I know the picture will look funny on large resultions but its a sample code Im making, so i'm not worried about streatching a image.My thought was do something to detect window bounds or something.

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Code A Visual Basic IP Address Changer?

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I have a Vista O.S., but I want my program to change the Ip address on mutiple O.S. with one click of a button or possibly on a timer to switch ip addresses every few minutes. How would I do this in VB 2008?

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Make Programs Like A Sreen Logon Changer For Windows 7?

Oct 7, 2011

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File I/O And Registry :: Developing A Software Called Logon Screen Changer Xp?

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and i am developing a software called logon screen changer xp but i get this error

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Get The Current Wallpaper?

Jan 8, 2010

How do you get the current wallpaper? do you use SystemParametersInfo? what about the picture position setting?

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Wallpaper Change Using VB?

Mar 28, 2009

I've made a program to change a computers wallpaper through VB which works perfectly UNLESS as your browsing for the picture you press the cancel button. The code on the browse button:

Dim dlg As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog
dlg.Filter = "Image Files (*.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg)|*.bmp;*.gif;*.jpg"
dlg.Title = "Select the image to load."

[code]....

Is there anything that can be added to the code so that the user is able to cancel looking for a picture without it crashing?

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App - Changing Desktop Wallpaper ?

Aug 25, 2011

I am having in VB.NET 2010. I am writing an app to change the background wallpaper kinda a little project I am making for my wife's grandma. It is a multiple wallpaper changer to change the wallpaper based on a list of images she adds. Anyways! I have everything setup except the fact that it doesn't change the wallpaper...

This code here:

Public Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal uAction As Integer, _
ByVal uParam As Integer, _
ByVal lpvParam As String, _

[CODE]...

Will NOT change the wallpaper but the same code works in VB6 I tried it because I have made something like it before in VB6 but it was a game that changed the wallpaper. Anyways, using the above code in VB6 works(well with a change to the SystemParametersInfo declare to work within VB6. But it doesn't work in VB.NET. I have NO IDEA why everything gets set in the registry just fine from VB.NET but I just cannot seem to get it to update the wallpaper...

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Changing The Desktop Wallpaper?

Jan 10, 2010

I am writing an app to change the background wallpaper kinda a little project I am making for my wife's grandma. It is a multiple wallpaper changer to change the wallpaper based on a list of images she adds. Anyways! I have everything setup except the fact that it doesn't change the wallpaper... This code here:

Code:
Public Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal uAction As Integer, _
ByVal lpvParam As String, _
ByVal fuWinIni As Integer) As Integer
SystemParametersInfo(20, 0, Application.StartupPath & "Wallpaper.bmp", 1)

will NOT change the wallpaper but the same code works in VB6 I tried it because I have made something like it before in VB6 but it was a game that changed the wallpaper. Anyways, using the above code in VB6 works(well with a change to the SystemParametersInfo declare to work within VB6. But it doesn't work in VB.NET. I have NO IDEA why everything gets set in the registry just fine from VB.NET but I just cannot seem to get it to update the wallpaper..

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Dec 6, 2009

I'm trying to update my wallpaper with VB.NET and it's not working. Weird thing is, this same code works fine on my other machines (same OSes, Win XP Pro SP3). My code grabs a random picture then passes it to the SetWallpaper function:

<System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute("user32.dll", EntryPoint:="SystemParametersInfoW")> _
Public Shared Function SystemParametersInfo(ByVal uiAction As UInteger, ByVal uiParam As UInteger, ByVal pvParam As System.IntPtr, ByVal fWinIni As UInteger) As <System.Runtime.InteropServices.MarshalAsAttribute(System.Runtime.InteropServices.UnmanagedType.Bool)> Boolean

[Code]...

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Apr 9, 2009

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Jan 23, 2010

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First off, is this even possible? Second, how can I do something like this (If its possible)?

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