Animated Desktops

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9 comments, last by Mulligan 20 years, 11 months ago
I''ve found that creating an ActiveX control that uses OpenGL and then embedding that in a webpage and using Active Desktop works perfectly fine.

An advantage of doing this as opposed to using overlay support is that only the desktop will be drawn to. If the user''s font happens to be the same color as the color key used to control the overlay, it can be annoying for them when their fonts go screwy.

On the other hand, this means that if you have any files that you want to load for the program, you either need to hard code a directory, put a subdirectory in the Windows folder, or use the registry for install information in order to know where to load the files from.

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