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Ch-Paper 1.1
Copyright 1991 Nelson Ford
LEGALITIES:
This program is copyrighted, but may be freely used without payment of a
license fee.
The program may be given to others ONLY if no changes are made to any of the
files.
PURPOSE:
Ch-Paper lets you quickly try different wallpapers without having to go
through Windows' series of menus. The Ch-Paper window stays open with the
directory list in front of you until you are ready to close it, unlike
Windows.
Ch-Paper also lets you set a timer for automatic changing of wallpaper. It
will continuously cycle through all the BMP files in the selected directory.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the only wallpaper changer which also
adjusts the system palette when loading a 256-color BMP file.
CHANGING WALLPAPER:
When you start it up, find a directory with BMP files in it and double click
on one to load it as the Windows wallpaper.
Once you have located a directory, you can reduce the size of the Ch-Paper
window while you try different BMP's by click-dragging the right edge of the
window's frame so that just the file list shows. I usually like to do this and
then drag the window into a corner out of the way.
Note that Ch-Paper does NOT change the default wallpaper assignment in your
WIN.INI file. This was intentional, as I've had my WIN.INI wiped out before
by programs trying to change it. If there is enough demand, I will add the
option to change it, but you can easily change it with NOTEPAD anway.
SETTING THE TIMER:
You can set the timer to cycle through all the BMPs in a specified directory.
You can specify a fraction of a minute (eg: .5 = 30 seconds) if you wish, but
for settings of more than a minute, fractions are ignored.
I put my favorite BMP's in a separate directory where it is easy to add new
ones and delete old ones.
For the timer to work, you must leave Ch-Paper iconized (or you can leave
the window open if you wish; just don't Quit the program).
That's it.
Nelson Ford
PsL
P.O.Box 35705
Houston, TX 77235-5705
713-524-6394