oooooh... i love DOS.. let me get in on this...
Well... I've been working on this project of mine for about a week now. Windows allows you to use an HTML file as your desktop, which also means dynamic stuff like javascript. So I made an html file that used a drop down box to get to my things rather than icons that clutter the desktop. Then I added animated images, which would freeze up normally if used as a desktop. Then I got crafty with the JS and made all of the images dynamically refresh. Meaning that if the image changed during that time it would display the new image onscreen in a matter of seconds. Then... I whipped out notepad once more and crafted some batch files to handle the swapping of images. Now I have a full-fledged program that allows you to change every aspect of the desktop, add new components, and save your themes as batch files to use later. I even use an original idea of mine on how to store variables in files for later use. Basically... i echo it out into a file, then have parts of the batch files saved into pieces... then i copy them all together so that the files i echoed the variables out to fall into place so that they are trasnferred permanently into the new batch file. Its hard to explain... so Ill rar or zip all the files up later and upload em
then ill post em here.
