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- Desktop Control
- A Windows 95/NT Wallpaper Utility
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- * Version 1.1 now supports BMP, DIB, PICT, TGA, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and GIF
- formats!
-
- Latest Version: 1.2 - 4/28/98 - Release Notes - dc.zip
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- What is Desktop Control?
-
- Desktop Control is a freeware utility which automatically rotates your
- Windows 95/NT wallpaper on startup and then on regular user-defined
- intervals.
-
- It supports a wide variety of source file formats in addition to standard
- BMP and DIB files: PICT (Macintosh), TGA, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and GIF.
-
- How do I use it?
-
- Simply designate a folder on your hard drive as your repository for
- wallpaper images. Dragging new files of any supported format into this
- folder will cause Desktop Control to work them into the rotation.
- Alternatively, you can drag files directly on top of the Desktop Control
- main window, which will automatically copy them to your current wallpaper
- directory.
-
- The first time you run Desktop Control, it will prompt you to enter your
- preferences: select a directory from which Desktop Control is to grab
- images, set the rotation interval, and you are ready to go!
-
- Obviously a shortcut to Desktop Control should be placed in your "StartUp"
- folder to facilitate automatic launch of Desktop Control. Five seconds
- after launch, Desktop Control will either automatically minimize itself to
- your system traybar or quit, depending on the rotation interval setting. To
- restore the main window, setup window, or to rotate the backdrop,
- right-click on the traybar icon.
-
- Why Desktop Control?
-
- With literally tens of other wallpaper utilities out there, why use Desktop
- Control?
-
- * Desktop Control is (and will always be) free
- * Support for every common image format
- * Small memory footprint
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- Distribution/Copyright
-
- Desktop Control is freeware and may be freely distributed on any
- shareware/freeware compilations, so long as this "ReadMe" file is included,
- and no modifications are done to the executable.
-
- This software is based in no small part on several freely available image
- compression libraries:
-
- * PICT, TGA
- o PaintLib is Copyright (c) 1996-1998 Ulrich von Zadow.
- * TIFF
- o libtiff is Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler.
- libtiff is Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- * JPEG
- o jpeglib is Copyright (c) 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane and the
- Independent JPEG Group.
- * PNG
- o libpng is Copyright (c) 1998 Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Group 42, et.
- all.
- * GIF
- o CImage is Copyright (c) Julian Smart.
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- Support
-
- If you have any constructive suggestions or comments, please email them to
- tb93@radparker.com. The latest version should always be available for
- download at http://www.radparker.com/~tb93/dc/dc.zip.
-
- Desktop Control was written using Microsoft's VC++.
-
- Enjoy! Ty Bekiares ~ tb/93 Productions
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- DESKTOP CONTROL RELEASE NOTES
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- v1.2 - 4/28/98
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- * Bug Fixes
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- v1.1 - 4/27/98
-
- * Added support for PICT, TGA, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats
- * Fixed traybar menu bug
- * Improved window zooming when minimizing/maximizing from traybar
-
- v1.0 - 4/26/98
-
- * Initial Release
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