The windows desktop wallpaper support sucks. My attempt s to find a ‘moving’ background image for my desktop has resulting in the solution of an animated GIF.
Now Don’t get me wrong, Tweety-Pie the yellow cartoon bird flapping it’s tiny wngs at 4 frames per second in a very small 200x200 GIF does technically count as ‘moving’ but I just can’t find anything better than that.
Has anyone ever made an OpenGL or even half-decent animated desktop background? The closest thing I have ever seen is the Animated water-ripple background in the title bars of TRIPEX2, a Winamp visualisation plugin.
Windows NEEDS spicing up a bit, and I know that an animated wallpaer will suck up CPU, but I WANT SUPER SMOOTH 3D DESKTOPS DAMMIT!!!
you should retrieve the DC for the desktop. To do that you need the handle of the desktop, which is treated as a normal window und windoughs, by using the function GetDesktopWindow(). Then get the DC by calling GetDC(hwnd). Now you have the DC and can treat it as a you treat a usual OpenGL view and draw whatever you want on it!
I didn’t try it, but this is the only way I can think of how it can work.
Tell me whether it worked or not.
