Re: [MiNT] MiNT +problem with background in Teradesk

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
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> From: "Paul Wratt" <paul.wratt@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:23 AM
> To: "mint" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>; "Piotrek" <mietniow@agh.edu.pl>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT +problem with background in Teradesk
>
>> under MiNT you can use MyAES to get a background picture, one that
>> works if TeraDesk is set to white, no pattern.
>
> I think this can be implemented quite easily in XaAES too. It's a matter of
> replacing the root object of the desktop object tree with an image. The
> image loading and drawing routines are already there (textures).
>
> Jo Even
>
from what I can see it is possible for both AES and Teradesk to have
different bg images (one each)

the addition of the following should be enough (with code to write to
the correct object tree)
AESBACKGROUND=$home/desktop/image.img
TDBACKGROUND=C:\somepath\somefile.img

A reason for both will become apparent in the near future

The only issue I have with this (img textures) is that I was unable to
find a program that runs on ARAnyM that can produce XIMG > 265 colors
that work in XaAES

This was an issue I had to  provide workaround for when testing
textures and converting to 24bit images to XIMG for XaAES (best I
could do was -> 256 palette remap)

If this problem can be solved (or workable solution provided) you will
see many fancy desktop screenshots in the near future (not just a few
by people who came up with aworkaround)

If we are lucky, and Teradesk uses a generic Tree Object, there may be
other programs that could also use it. How lucky so we feel?

Paul