This is no simple feat but by no means impossible. Other people have done it, there are plenty of DE or WM out there so there is no reason that you, with patient, skill and lots coffee couldn’t do something great. Learn the difference between DE and WM. Test different DE and WM, maybe one … Read more
I use a french version of Windows and with it the instruction: System.getProperty(“user.home”) + “/Desktop”; works fine for me.
To be safe, you should use the proper APIs in Powershell (or VBScript) Using PowerShell: [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”) Copy something using Powershell: Copy-Item $home\*.txt ([Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”)) Here is a VBScript-example to get the desktop path: dim WSHShell, desktop, pathstring, objFSO set objFSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set WSHshell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) desktop = WSHShell.SpecialFolders(“Desktop”) pathstring = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(desktop) WScript.Echo pathstring
WPF makes this absolutely trivial: It would proably take ten minutes or less. Here are the steps: Create a Window, set AllowsTransparency=”true” and add a Grid to it Set the Grid’s RenderTransform to a ScaleTransform with origin of 0,1 Create an animation on the grid that animates the ScaleX 0 to 1 then later animates … Read more
There is XULRunner, which let’s you build GUI apps like Firefox using JavaScript and XUL. It has a lot of extension to JavaScript though, using XPCOM. They also offer Prism which let’s you build web apps that work offline, sort of like AIR. Yahoo uses it for their Zimbra email desktop client.
There are few limitation I can gather : First of all there are different IDE’s for different use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012 Express editions of the IDE omit the following features included … Read more
Here’s a class yanked from an app I wrote a year or two ago: public sealed class Wallpaper { Wallpaper() { } const int SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20; const int SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = 0x01; const int SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE = 0x02; [DllImport(“user32.dll”, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] static extern int SystemParametersInfo(int uAction, int uParam, string lpvParam, int fuWinIni); public enum Style … Read more
You have two options: PresentationFramework.dll SystemParameters.VirtualScreenWidth SystemParameters.VirtualScreenHeight System.Windows.Forms.dll SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.Width SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.Height Use the first option if you developing a WPF application.
Since you are going to use this on a login page. Here is a code I used in a Login page using Material-UI MUI v5 <Grid container spacing={0} direction=”column” alignItems=”center” justifyContent=”center” style={{ minHeight: ‘100vh’ }} > <Grid item xs={3}> <LoginForm /> </Grid> </Grid> MUI v4 and below <Grid container spacing={0} direction=”column” alignItems=”center” justify=”center” style={{ minHeight: … Read more
You can use Desktop.getDesktop().open(File file). See the following question for other options: “[Java] How to open user system preffered editor for given file?”