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| Posted on 2011-01-19 11:35:18 PM |
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Title. I want to use a couple of .swf's as a slide-show desktop background. Is it physically possible to do this?
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| Posted on 2011-01-20 09:37:05 PM |
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If you can open .swf in Adobe Flash (the actual program, which costs money) it lets you export as an animated gif which is compatible with Windows XP's wallpaper background. (Meaning it will animate) If the .swf is a still image you can just print screen it and crop it in paint if you'd like. Windows Vista and 7 do not animate gifs on the desktop and they tend to artifact everything, so yeah, sux. If you can't get ahold of Adobe Flash just find some freeware converter with Google.
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| Last edited on 2011-01-20 09:37:43 PM by Snowshoe. |
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| Posted on 2011-01-20 11:13:12 PM |
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Another problem with that method is that GIFs are limited to 256 colors per frame.
There is a potential solution though! There is a change that enabling dreamscene via this tutorial(which I have not tested personally)would allow for mpeg backgrounds. So if you converted your swf to a mpeg movie file you would be good to go. The reason I say chance is I have seen quite a few conflicting it worked or didn't work answers. Hopefully it will work for you though 
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| Posted on 2011-01-21 01:29:46 AM |
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They both work. (First method I used for XP Mode BG, While the other is used for the main Desktop. But It mixes my Desktop Icons Text (Below The Icon) to match the BG. Dunno why.) Thanks!
(EDIT: Er..nevermind. I THINK I fixed the problem. I THINK.)
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| Last edited on 2011-01-21 01:37:56 AM by LuigiMania. |
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| Posted on 2011-03-10 08:54:39 AM |
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You could possibly do this.
There's a method where you can set a webpage to be your desktop background, so you could create a webpage containing your .swf file, then set that to your desktop background.
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| Posted on 2011-07-16 12:02:19 PM |
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I remember something about interactive desktops, and I had a snake as one of them.
Try googling it, there was a flash on newgrounds about it.
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