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- PAPER - Fast Windows wallpaper changer with Palette Correction
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- PAPER.EXE is a simple Turbo Pascal for Windows program that demonstrates
- how to change the wallpaper from a program, and contains a "fix" for
- 256-color wallpaper.
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- Usage
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- Just run paper and make the command line argument the name of the wallpaper
- you wish to load. That wallpaper will be loaded, and the palette realized.
- If there is no command line argument, the current wallpaper's palette will
- be realized.
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- PAPER works especially well with replacement shells like LAUNCH, indeed, the
- idea for PAPER came from a utility designed for LAUNCH. My PAPER does more,
- including keeping WIN.INI apprised of the wallpaper changes, and fixing up
- the palette for 256-color wallpaper.
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- The Palette Problem
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- When using 256-color modes, apparently Windows does not realize the palette
- of new wallpaper when it is loaded. I don't know if this happens with all
- 256-color drivers, or if indeed the problem lies in Windows or the drivers.
- PAPER sets up a one-entry palette of its own, and when PAPER closes, Windows
- realizes the palette of the current wallpaper. Its a work-around, but it
- works (at least with my Video-7 drivers).
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- Ralph Smith, clySmic software [76156,164] or [76376,3150]
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