how to play shockwave as wallpaper

[protege5demon]

Does anyone know of a way to play Shockwave Flash movies (*.swf) files as the wallpaper for WinXP? I've got a couple of pretty sweet flash movies that would find a great home there.

Thanks!

 

[protege5demon]

anybody know?

 

[FungusFeet]

This works, but the icon shadows are :thumbsdown:.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: FungusFeet
This works, but the icon shadows are :thumbsdown:.

wow. tyat's pretty cool.

now .. who wants to install it and tell us how the program is.

 

[FungusFeet]

I just did...my only gripe is that the shadows under icons are jagged.
When you right click on the flash movie, the usual Flash menu pops up (i.e., Zoom In/Out, Show All, etc...)
Very easy to use overall, and an Ad-Aware SE 1.04 Personal scan caught only tracking cookies from IE, so it appears to be adware-free.

edit: You can have a transparent flash movie with your bitmap wallpaper underneath!

 

[MrChad]

Can't you create an HTML file that loads the Shockwave object and set that as your background using Active Desktop?

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Can't you create an HTML file that loads the Shockwave object and set that as your background using Active Desktop?

I dont see why you couldnt, but I really dont think an animated wallpaper would be cool... After a while it'd just get craptacularly annoying.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: MrChad
Can't you create an HTML file that loads the Shockwave object and set that as your background using Active Desktop?

I dont see why you couldnt, but I really dont think an animated wallpaper would be cool... After a while it'd just get craptacularly annoying.

*shrug* I don't get it either, but that's what the OP asked for.

 

[protege5demon]

eh...thought I'd just give it a shot and see....I'm sure I'll switch back to a regular still image within a month or so.

 

[bamacre]

Yes, you can have an .html page as a wallpaper (background), and have it bring in the .swf document. I've done it before.

This will eat up memory and cpu speed. It's cool for a day or so, then you'll get bored with it.