WallpaperSwitcher 1.0.2.8

It worked for me. This has potential.
How about holding the images for more than 2 secs, and/or looping back through again once they're finished? This is pretty far from a beta test, but it is an interesting concept. What's needed is something to automate the image moving & renaming thing. This could turn out to be a really neat app.

Tested XP SP2. Works fine .bmp and .jpg

Overall Pass. I will run an additional test on a limited WXP and W2K profile later this week.

>==System Details==
With provided GdiPlus.dll {dated 2008-01-19, no local installed version}
Use BMP files - Yes. [No BMP in folder as of this run]
Passing Result = Error | Images not found.

Use BMP files - No. [26 JPG in folder as of this run]
Passing Result = 'needs conversion'.
Failing Result = Application popup: AutoIt v3: wallpaper.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x00432fcf" referenced memory at "0xfffffff8". The memory could not be "read".

With different GdiPlus.dll {dated 2006-04-18, copied from another portable edition folder, still no local version installed}
Use BMP files - Yes. [No BMP in folder as of this run]
Passing Result = Error | Images not found.

Use BMP files - No. [26 JPG in folder as of this run]
Passing Result = 'needs conversion'. conversion, display (26), delete temp conversion, exit.

With different GdiPlus.dll {same as Step 4, Run 2}
Use BMP files - Yes. [26 BMP in folder as of this run]
Passing Result =

Use BMP files - No. [No JPG in folder as of this run]
Passing Result = display (26), exit.

I also had another idea for you. I love your EraserDropTarget, so I had this idea https://portableapps.com/node/13535

... using whatever GDI is installed on the system. It ran through all the images in each folder (I used different images for each set, and a different number of images in each set) and returned to the desktop's setting when done.

I wasn't quite sure whether you were kidding about the images being named image1, image2, etc. but I discovered easily enough that you weren't. It gave me the "no images found" error until I renamed the files to that scheme. (Good thing I copied instead of moved them into the folders; I have a strong aversion to meaningless file names, so it wouldn't have been much fun to have to rename them again later. :/ )

This app-ears (lol) to have great potential. I can't wait to see it fully fleshed out with options! I'd keep using it now, if it could loop and I could set the interval.

I will try it later tonight on my Vista Home Premium laptop and report back.

To add on to what has already been said...

1. Allow user to disable sideshow and only show one wallpaper and then allow user to shut off application if that option is used
2. Allow switch to a different default directory (I have a over 100 pictures in a different folder and I don't want to have to move the entire folder and rename them!
3. Allow app to work without renaming pictures
4. Allow app to access archives (I use high resolution .jpg's that are really large pictures as .bmp's)
   example:(the actual, rounded numbers are used)
   • venom.jpg ~300 KB
   • venom.bmp ~1.2 MB !!
   • venom.7z ~560 KB

   If zipped I can save a ton of space for large "HD" pictures.

5. Any other suggestions have already been given by other users

Put it in PAF format and stick on a Dev test number, and we can add it to the development list.

... that someone at work noticed my wallpapers changed during the day (I just run the app and pause it on an image I want; I've got maybe thirty now in the jpg folder!) and I showed them your little tester app. They wanted it... and I've had eight or nine other people coming and asking for a copy since then, so apparently the word is out here at work. I am careful to let them know it's just a little tester and that they need to rename the images, but they're having fun with it anyway, as am I.

(The individual who was most excited about it is a new grandmother. She's very happy to be able to choose and change wallpapers so easily.)

no download.
I just tried it, and instead of a download starting, I got sent to the nascent website and the browser screen filled with iconic junk, like diamonds with question marks in them, bullets, etc.
Like this: 7z��'�t��id�����$�������I�3m���`�", A��

Tried it again, still the same. At the bottom of the page, it says "Done"

Pretty nice, working well.

wraithdu, you don't happen to know any delphi do you? If you did I know of a really great freeware skinnable wallpaper changer project that you could take over. It's called Quickchanger, the developer told me the other day he'd be willing to give someone the source that he has left. Some of it was lost in a HD crash. He just doesn't have the time to work on it anymore
Unfortunately the skinning engine he used isn't OSS, so it couldn't be an official app here. It is a great app though, I still use the last released version on my home PC.

I'd like to request a way to exit the program using the command-line. Also, if for some reason the programs exists unexpectedly (lets say you kill it from the task manager), then the wallpaper will not change to the original and it will keep a folder (the name begins with ~) in the TEMP folder with the wallpaper that was displayed in it, and if you happen to run the program again, it will think that whatever wallpaper was left behind IS the original one. A few months back I was working on a script to change the wallpaper, and the way I decided to solve this was to get the computer name, user name and date, and if any of the three changed, it will read the information of the original wallpaper, if not, it will keep whatever information was already saved.

Would it be possible to get this to close via a command? I use an eject script with PStart to dismount and eject. It'd be nice if I could have this start with PStart, then use my eject script to shut it down.

(I know there are other ways to do this, just thought it might be a nice feature built-in)

Just want you folks to know I installed it on a new set of computers and it still works great!

Any other development on it?

wraithdu,

the DisableSplashScreen setting in the INI doesn't seem to be working - I've tried setting it to both "true" and "True", and neither one works. The INI is, of course, located beside WallpaperSwitcherPortable.exe

One thing I've noticed, is that when you switch wallpapers or use the slideshow feature in Windows 7 (and possibly Vista, but I haven't used Vista in forever so I don't remember) and Aero is enabled, it fades smoothly from the old wallpaper to the new one, so as not to distract you. Any possibility WallpaperSwitcher could change the background in such a way as to trigger Windows' built-in fade to occur?

Love this

I want to play with the code, but missing the following files when I try to compile ...

• _File.au3
• _RegFunc.au3
• _OSVersionInfo.au3

Can you please tell me where I can find these and any other dependencies?

I'm using AutoIT 3.3.6.1 with the customized SciTE 1.79 (both latest currently)

Great, very cool
Thanks

If it's possible, I've a suggestion ...

In the ini, for "style", a fourth possibility : stretch by keeping the height/width ratio...

hoping that you can consider this,
cordially

Recently, both AVG and McAfee started to indicate that WallpaperSwitcher.exe contains a virus. I've tried at VirusTotal, four out of the many engines alerts several - presumably false - alarms.

It is possible to do something with this issue? Or, would You mind to release the source code?

Is broken for me. Anyone else having this problem? I just end up with 0 kb files. DL'd from a couple places no luck.

For some unknown reason the zip file is now password protected. The password is in the filename of the zip but as Windows tends to truncate long filenames few will see it. The password is zer0dev but as I've already said what's the point in password protecting the zip file?