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- Wallpaper XChange
-
- For more information on this and other programs, goto http://www.xymantix.com/
-
- Welcome to Wallpaper XChange, an image browser/viewer program that serves as a
- convenient and powerful way to set your Windows wallpaper.
-
-
- What it does:
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- It allows you to set .bmp, .gif, .jpg, and .png images files as wallpaper
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- It has a graphical image browser to help select a particular file, with
- customizable image sizes
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- It offers a list view of image files and allows you to sort by name, size, date,
- or resolution
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- It color codes the image resolutions to easily identify those with the same
- ratio as your screen
-
- It has a preview area complete with monitor effects such as inner shadows and a
- glare
-
- It has an optional caching system to make loading directories lightning quick
-
- It allows you to easily delete/copy/rename files, and supports drag and drop
-
- It offers high quality bicubic interpolation to resample images to your screen
- resolution
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- It has an image viewer mode that shows the picture in its own window, resizable
- to zoom in/out
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- It's resizable so make the directory browser and preview area large or small
-
-
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- What it doesn't do:
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- It doesn't modify any of your source images - it will make a copy of any image
- and use that copy for the wallpaper.
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- It won't do batch conversions or resamples on your images - it will only convert
- one image at a time for use as a wallpaper.
-
- It doesn't replace any of your source images, but it can optionally keep a
- thumbnail-sized cached copy of images to speed up directory previews.
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-
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- Tips:
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- When loading a lot of files from a directory, you can hold down the ESCAPE key
- to stop the loading process
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- The resolution of the image is color coded according to your display resolution:
- Black = the image has a different ratio than your display
- Green = the image has the same ratio as your display
- Blue = the image is the exact same size as you display
- This is useful as the blue-coded images that are the same size as your display
- don't have to be stretched or resized to fit the full screen. The green-coded
- images will resize nicely since they can be full screen and still be
- proportionally sized without any modifications. The black-coded images will
- change proportions when stretched, but you can chose the proportional resize
- option to maintain the original proportions
-
- Double-clicking on an image will bring it up in the zoomer which allows you to
- see it in a much larger format. The zoom form can be resized to zoom in and
- out. Holding down the SHIFT key while resizing the form maintains the aspect
- ratio so that the image will maintain the original proportions.
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- You can select images from the image browser and drag and drop them into any
- drag and drop compatible control. Holding down the SHIFT or CONTROL key before
- the drag event will move the images instead of copying them. This allows you to
- move or copy the images from one folder to another, or send them from Wallpaper
- XChange to Photoshop for further editing, as an example.
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- Change Log:
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-
- Version 0.2
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- Added - Right clicking on the zoom screen allows you to set the image as the wallpaper
- Added - Ability to sort images in the browser via a combo box regardless of image/preview mode
- Changed - The date in the list view is now formatted as yyy-mm-dd for better sorting
- Changed - Reduced the width of the monitor preview graphic to devote more space to the image browser
- Changed - The image browser now only refreshes after a Drag and Drop Move event, not a copy