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From: "Geo."
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Geo.
"Gary Britt" wrote in
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> Yes that would be one way. I've thought about doing something similar by
> capturing the window at various times of the day and saving all to
> separate files and then using a macro to update the wallpaper every so
> often. I was wondering if there was a way to capture the screen of a
> program or place the screen window of a program in a more *live* way an
> active desktop live kind of way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> mike wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 May 2007 14:18:29 -0400, Gary Britt
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to capture the screen window of a program that is running
>>> locally on the machine in question as an html file or something so it
>>> can be displayed as the background desktop wallpaper on that same
>>> machine?
>>
>> Here's how I would do it with the stuff I have:
>>
>> 1) Alt-PrintScrn places an image of the active window onto the clipboard
>>
>> 2) open PMView, and Edit>Paste image from clipboard.
>>
>> 3) save image as jpg file
>>
>> 4) open jpg file in Opera, OMB and select Use image as desktop
>>
>>
>> There may be easier ways with other software.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Is it possible to make the link *live* so the desktop image updates
>>> periodically as the program's screen window updates?
>>
>> Dunno.
>>
>>> Is there a utility for this kind of thing?
>>
>> Probably.
>>
>>
>> /m
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