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- The NEWSPAPER program and documentation were originally written by
- Jim Button, and put into the Public Domain. Likewise, all of my
- modifications to this program and documentation, in the spirit of
- what Jim Button originally intended, are also put into the Public
- Domain.
-
- TIP - Suggest that you get a copy of our WGV.EXE (Windows Graphic
- View) program, and convert a couple of your favorite GIF pictures
- to full screen bitmaps (*.BMP). They work really great with the
- NEWPAPER program.
-
- Enjoy !!!
-
- Bob Jack
-
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-
- VERSION HISTORY:
-
- Version 1.0 created 7/28/90
- The original
- Version 1.1 created 7/30/90
- Makes automatic choice of tiled or un-tiled wallpaper
- Version 1.1b created 8/30/90
- No changes. Decided to make the source code available.
-
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-
- Version 2.0 - 06/01/92
- Total rewrite, cleanup of code, and conversion of program to
- compile under Borland's C++ version 3.0. Added user defined
- bitmap (*.BMP) storage.
-
- IT'S TOTALLY FREE
-
- This Windows program is free. There are no strings attached! It's
- donated to the Public Domain, as Jim Button had originally wanted
- it to be.
-
- WHAT IT DOES
-
- It changes your desktop wallpaper for you each time you run
- windows. So, you can have several wallpaper files in either your
- windows subdirectory, or any other subdirectory. Each time you run
- windows, a different wallpaper will be selected.
-
- REQUIREMENTS
-
- NEWPAPER requires Windows 3.0 or later and one or more *.BMP files
- (to use as wallpaper) in a subdirectory.
-
- HOW TO INSTALL IT
-
- First, copy the program NEWPAPER.EXE into your Windows
- subdirectory.
-
- Run windows, and use the NOTEPAD function to edit the WIN.INI file
- in your Windows subdirectory.
-
- Inside your WIN.INI file, you should find a line that looks like
- this:
-
- [windows]
-
- Somewhere in the next few lines that follow the [windows] section,
- you should find a line that starts out like this:
-
- run=
-
- There may be some file names following the run= text, for example
-
- run=eyes.exe
-
- If you don't find a run= line, add one. Add the statement
- NEWPAPER.EXE to the run= line. Here are some sample run= lines...
-
- run=newpaper.exe
-
- - or -
-
- run=eyes.exe blanker.exe newpaper.exe
-
- Notice that you must have a space between each program listed on
- the run= line.
-
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-
- To add the optional subdirectory storage, look for this line:
-
- [Desktop]
-
- Under it, add a line which reads:
-
- bmpdir=d:\bitmaps
-
- Change the d:\bitmaps portion to whatever drive/directory you have
- your *.BMP stored in.
-
- Note - The bmpdir= portion may already exist. If it does, just add
- the drive/directory part.
-
- HOW TO USE IT
-
- This is the easy part. After you've installed NEWPAPER.EXE, just
- run windows. There's nothing else to do. Every time you run
- windows, you should get a different desktop wallpaper.
-
- You can fill the subdirectory with as many bitmap files as you
- like. (These are file names that end with the suffix ".BMP").
-
- NOTE: NEWPAPER doesn't actually change the wallpaper you are
- looking at. It lets Windows do that. So, if you run NEWPAPER from
- your desktop, you will not see a change in your wallpaper. The
- wallpaper will not get changed until the next time Windows starts
- up.
-
-
- HOW IT WORKS
-
- NEWPAPER changes your WIN.INI file each time it runs. There is a
- line inside of WIN.INI that says "Wallpaper=", followed by the
- name of a bitmap file. NEWPAPER just looks at all the bitmap files
- in your subdirectory, and changes the "Wallpaper=" line to point
- to a new bitmap file. Which new bitmap file? The next one in your
- subdirectory. After it gets to the last one, it will start again
- at the top.
-
- NEWPAPER also makes a decision about whether to put your wallpaper
- up "tiled" or un-tiled. To do this, it looks at the size of the
- BMP file. If the BMP file is less than 100K, it uses tiled
- wallpaper. Otherwise it uses un-tiled wallpaper.
-
- The program only runs for a brief instant when Windows starts up.
- Then it goes away. So it doesn't waste any memory or CPU cycles
- after it has done its work.
-