Need QuoteSwitcher or (lots of) help making one
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Greetings all -
Hope I'm posting this in somewhat the right place...I've been away for a couple years and I'm still getting my bearings again with a new computer and new OS, so forgive me if I'm in the totally wrong spot, and please point me to where I should be. (Is there still a newsgroup for nitty-gritty questions?) I posted on the Stardock forums also, but not sure which place is most active with the type of info I need, so I'm doing it here too.
Anyhow, I'm looking for or trying to make a "quote switcher" widget or object. That is... a thing that displays a random quote on bootup (or could change every 12 hours or something, but I don't want them changing really often). I will use this with a wallpaper switcher so that when I boot I will get a random wallpaper and a random quote. I don't imagine this would work a whole lot differently than a wall switcher or slide show /photo switcher, but I'm not certain. I suck at script stuff, so taking those apart and looking at them hasn't helped me so far.
Requirements/Specifics:
Program - DesktopX ? - This seems the most logical to me, but if there's a better way, please let me know.
Quotes - The quotations I want to use are selected by me, not from a quote of the day website or something. I'd like them to have different colors, fonts, and effects, so it's probably best if I just make them up ahead of time rather than requiring the object to try to change all that stuff. I want them to be frameless and on a transparent background so the quote can sit on any wallpaper. My best idea at the moment is to make a bunch of .gifs or .pngs of various quotes and tell the switcher thingy to just go thru that directory.
Interface - The launcher/options thingy should be either tiny or invisible. I'd like to be able to set everything up and then just have it run on bootup and/or stay in the background.
As I said, this seems very similar to a photo frame or slideshow- I just can't figure out how to translate it to work with transparency and such. All the switchers I've toyed with only look at .jpgs and .bmps, so I don't know if this is doable.
Here's a small example picture to show what I'm talking about in case I wasn't clear.
Example
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks - RR
Hope I'm posting this in somewhat the right place...I've been away for a couple years and I'm still getting my bearings again with a new computer and new OS, so forgive me if I'm in the totally wrong spot, and please point me to where I should be. (Is there still a newsgroup for nitty-gritty questions?) I posted on the Stardock forums also, but not sure which place is most active with the type of info I need, so I'm doing it here too.
Anyhow, I'm looking for or trying to make a "quote switcher" widget or object. That is... a thing that displays a random quote on bootup (or could change every 12 hours or something, but I don't want them changing really often). I will use this with a wallpaper switcher so that when I boot I will get a random wallpaper and a random quote. I don't imagine this would work a whole lot differently than a wall switcher or slide show /photo switcher, but I'm not certain. I suck at script stuff, so taking those apart and looking at them hasn't helped me so far.
Requirements/Specifics:
Program - DesktopX ? - This seems the most logical to me, but if there's a better way, please let me know.
Quotes - The quotations I want to use are selected by me, not from a quote of the day website or something. I'd like them to have different colors, fonts, and effects, so it's probably best if I just make them up ahead of time rather than requiring the object to try to change all that stuff. I want them to be frameless and on a transparent background so the quote can sit on any wallpaper. My best idea at the moment is to make a bunch of .gifs or .pngs of various quotes and tell the switcher thingy to just go thru that directory.
Interface - The launcher/options thingy should be either tiny or invisible. I'd like to be able to set everything up and then just have it run on bootup and/or stay in the background.
As I said, this seems very similar to a photo frame or slideshow- I just can't figure out how to translate it to work with transparency and such. All the switchers I've toyed with only look at .jpgs and .bmps, so I don't know if this is doable.
Here's a small example picture to show what I'm talking about in case I wasn't clear.
Example
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks - RR