Anyone know of any Anyone know of any software to write directly on the desktop? I've found some that open a semi-transparent window that lets you write things. Wondering if there are any that let you write stuff directly anywhere on the desktop? I've found some that open a semi-transparent window that lets you write things. Wondering if there are any that let you write stuff directly anywhere on the desktop
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Anonymous2006-04-24 23:03
SHURG
lern to taipe, nob.
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Anonymous2006-04-24 23:12
Anyone know of any software that allows me to write directly on my desktop? I’ve found some that open semi-transparent windows that do this but none that write directly. I’m looking for something that functions somewhat like Photoshop with its text layers. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
There, now help me ^^
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Anonymous2006-04-25 2:30 (sage)
Hay what about mentioning your OS maybe that could help
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Anonymous2006-04-25 14:53
"write stuff directly anywhere on the desktop" - a transparent window is the best you can get. You need to understand that a graphical user interface is created by someone to look a certain way. It's not like writing on your actual desktop with a pen or something. The icons, buttons, wallpaper, etc. are all objects, things generated by the operating system itself, not just shapes in an image presented to you. The GUI is meant for facilitating user interaction, and was created under the assumption that the mouse is part of this, as opposed to a weird marker/pen with which the user shits all over whatever they see on the screen.
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Anonymous2006-04-25 16:04
I once wrote a HTML page that had a form and saved the contents to a cookie, thus functioning as a crude notepad application. This could then be placed on the desktop in Windows using the 'Active Desktop' functionality.
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Anonymous2006-04-25 19:26
>>5 as opposed to a weird marker/pen with which the user shits all over whatever they see on the screen.
Lol
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AFAIK Active Desktop won't support cookies (it just display a local page, no HTTP, so no cookies).
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Anonymous2006-04-26 4:08
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Cookies were set and got using JavaScript. But I think Active Desktop DOES support remote pages - that was Microsoft's idea, that you could have things like news websites on your desktop.
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Anonymous2006-04-26 7:10
You can't just "write" stuff anywhere unless the GUI elements were designed for something like that. Plus they are all separate so if you drew a line across your start menu and a couple icons, each of those things would have to save the state of this and reflect it it in their own multiple states, and I have no idea how it would work if those things moved around. Waaaaaaayyyyyy to involved. Write stuff in an image, and make that image your wallpaper, if you absolutely must do this. That is the closest you'll get to writing "directly to the desktop". Because you can't actually do that.
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Anonymous2006-04-26 8:58
this thread is the same as "reformatting doesn't erase your data"
the original poster doesn't care about anything you morons are saying. He asked for a program that would let him simulate the act of, and I quote, "writing stuff ... on the desktop"
Why not get out a damn pen and some post it notes and write on the real desktop?
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Anonymous2006-04-26 13:38 (sage)
>>10
Sometimes reading is a good thing. NO CAN DO. You might find some program that makes it LOOK like you are doing that. Or write crap in MSPAINT and save as wallpaper.
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Anonymous2006-04-26 23:04 (sage)
>>12
shut the fuck up we all know what the OP meant. go back to telling niggers they use apostrophes incorrectly