This site is no longer active and is available for archival purposes only. Registration and login is disabled.

Random Wallpaper changer


Random Wallpaper changer

Postby Miracle » Sep 4, 2005 @ 3:47pm

I was looking for a tool that allows me to randomly change my desktop's wallpaper at a set interval. While this is a very easy thing to do (or so I think), I had a pretty hard time finding a decent tool... Most of the tools I found allowed you to add one file per time, and as I wanted to add a couple of houndred, well, let's just say I don't want to spend THAT much time.

Now I found a tool called 'Wallpaper Cycle' (how original ;)), and it's working pretty good. There's just one problem; I have a lot of portrait-sized images, and lots of them are higher in resolution then my screen. So this results in only partial views (view mode is set to 'center'). When I put the view mode to 'stretch', it does display everything, but, of course, the image is totally distorted...

Now onto my question, is there a decent Wallpaper changer that has a solution to this problem build in, or is there an easy way to fix this? I thought of making a Photoshop script that resizes the image, resizes the canvas to match my screen, then fill the background with some sort of color, but I don't really want to run that script every time I add new images...

Any help?

Thanks in advance!
Miracle
pm Insider
 
Posts: 1879
Joined: Aug 8, 2003 @ 1:41pm


Postby chuck » Sep 4, 2005 @ 7:40pm

User avatar
chuck
pm Insider
 
Posts: 2037
Joined: Jan 11, 2003 @ 7:41pm


Postby sponge » Sep 4, 2005 @ 8:58pm

holy internets batman.
User avatar
sponge
Not sponge
 
Posts: 12779
Joined: Jan 13, 2002 @ 8:04am
Location: New Hampshire


Postby chuck » Sep 4, 2005 @ 10:32pm

User avatar
chuck
pm Insider
 
Posts: 2037
Joined: Jan 11, 2003 @ 7:41pm


Postby sponge » Sep 5, 2005 @ 12:18am

holy internets batman.
User avatar
sponge
Not sponge
 
Posts: 12779
Joined: Jan 13, 2002 @ 8:04am
Location: New Hampshire


Postby James S » Sep 5, 2005 @ 1:52am

James S
pm Insider
 
Posts: 17064
Joined: Jan 12, 2002 @ 2:33pm
Location: Lexington, KY


Postby Miracle » Sep 5, 2005 @ 6:15am

Miracle
pm Insider
 
Posts: 1879
Joined: Aug 8, 2003 @ 1:41pm


Postby chuck » Sep 5, 2005 @ 1:53pm

User avatar
chuck
pm Insider
 
Posts: 2037
Joined: Jan 11, 2003 @ 7:41pm


Postby Miracle » Sep 5, 2005 @ 2:03pm

I know, but as the images I want to have as background images are both in portrait aswell as landscape, that doesn't always work well. I tried to do a couple of folders this morning, and it went pretty well, but I messed one part up at the save part. I used the 'save for web' option, as the JPEG quality coming out of that is far better then when you use the 'save as' feature, lot's of the image filenames were too long, according to Photoshop, so he just tossed the last couple of characters of the name. While I don't really mind this, it did pop up that the file name already excisted, as the file name was something like 'a-very-long-file-name---001.jpg' (photoshop adds the dashes instead of spaces -- blame the internet!), but it tried to save the file as 'a-very-long-file-name---0.jpg'. Of course, this only works once...out of 100 (of that folder).

I guess I have to pull out Magic File Renamer again :).
Miracle
pm Insider
 
Posts: 1879
Joined: Aug 8, 2003 @ 1:41pm


Postby Crayfish » Sep 5, 2005 @ 2:39pm

have you looked at WallMaster? Thats a pretty good free wallpaper changer app and allows a lot of selection when it comes to fitting the image to the screen. You can certainly show a portrait image on a landscape screen with the rest of the screen in a background colour of your choice.

http://www.wallmaster.com/
Rich Woods
Secret Wood Games

User avatar
Crayfish
pm Member
 
Posts: 41
Joined: Oct 1, 2004 @ 11:19am
Location: Lowestoft, UK


Postby Miracle » Sep 5, 2005 @ 3:35pm

Attachments

[The extension jpg has been deactivated and can no longer be displayed.]

Miracle
pm Insider
 
Posts: 1879
Joined: Aug 8, 2003 @ 1:41pm


Postby Caesar » Sep 5, 2005 @ 4:29pm

Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though--it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.
User avatar
Caesar
Veni Vidi Vici
 
Posts: 3901
Joined: Jun 24, 2003 @ 5:24pm


Postby Miracle » Sep 7, 2005 @ 9:38pm

Miracle
pm Insider
 
Posts: 1879
Joined: Aug 8, 2003 @ 1:41pm


Postby NYIllustrator » Sep 7, 2005 @ 11:04pm

Image

User avatar
NYIllustrator
pm Insider
 
Posts: 2222
Joined: Jul 17, 2001 @ 1:41am
Location: NY


Postby sponge » Sep 8, 2005 @ 12:20am

holy internets batman.
User avatar
sponge
Not sponge
 
Posts: 12779
Joined: Jan 13, 2002 @ 8:04am
Location: New Hampshire


Return to Anything Discussion


Sort


Forum Description

Post all off-topic messages here, almost anything goes.

Moderators:

Dan East, sponge, David Horn, Kevin Gelso, RICoder

Forum permissions

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum