Re: Cocoa and desktop image
Re: Cocoa and desktop image
- Subject: Re: Cocoa and desktop image
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:19:13 +0200
As a matter of fact, the question was discussed only less than a week
ago under the thread:
"[HELP] How to change Desktop background pic in OSX from Cocoa-Java?"
In brief, the conclusion was that the desktop picture was at the moment
the responsibility of the application Finder, and that no other
application has access to changing that. Manually modifying the finder
prefs file was suggested but not recomended in a shipping product, as it
would involve force-quitting Finder to activate the new image.
The thread was finished off with this post by Apple's George Warner:
"Please don't do this. An enhancement request was filed before the GM
release
and we should have a solution soon that won't require quitting or
restarting
the finder to get the updated desktop picture. I'll post the solution to
the
list as soon as I can. TIA."
I hope this is enough for summing up the thread.
/ regards, David Remahl
BTW, not to be RTFM-ish, but it is a good idea to search the mailing
list archives before asking a question, particularly if you are a new
member of it, or know that you havn't monitored it closely.
Is there a way to play with the desktop pictures with cocoa
(preferably) ?
In fact, I am trying to dynamically change it by pressing a button (for
example) but I can not find any function in the cocoa API that could
handle it.
thanks for the answers and I am sorry if the topic has already been
discussed
Julien Meunier