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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.