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Sid(TB)
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States314 Posts
February 02 2011 10:08 GMT
#1
Alright so many of you may be wondering "wtf is a desktop project, he mean PC?" no, i dont, infact i mean your wallpaper that you have on your computer.

but omg how could you need help with that! actually what i want is an interactive wallpaper much like a website, but instead of icons, i use buttons, have drop down menus, and other fancy things. ill try to explain what im looking to do so many someone can help lead me into the direction of learning how to make it happen, or do it with me!

i'd like to have a "spiral" somewhere on the background infront of a normal wall paper, this spiral will have labled buttons that when you click on one, it will "open" the spiral and this new buttons will become clickable as the spiral expands when u click more buttons till you get where you want. i know this isnt very effecient as icons, but i think it would look badass, and i'd also like to add hot keys to my buttons to very quickly open/close/get where i want to go on my desktop. i hope your getting what im trying to say.

lets use a drop down menu as an example, u click "file" and u get a list below it right? well instead of striaght up/down menu's forming i'd like them to form in a circle around other objects present on the desktop. let me know if you need more explaining ;P i think this could be done in flash but i have no idea how to use it, nor have i bought the program (i could prob download an old version? o.0)

thanks in advance, hopefully this idea is cool enough that someones already done it and i could be pointed in the direction of a tutorial or its totally new and im awsome and it starts a new trend for ballers

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omgCRAZY
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada551 Posts
February 02 2011 10:45 GMT
#2
You could probably use Rainmeter to get what you are looking for. I only just started learning about it so I can't tell you how to do this but that is probably your best bet.

http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/?q=Rainmeter101

THIS NEEDS FACE!
Sid(TB)
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States314 Posts
February 05 2011 10:25 GMT
#3
holy crap... ive been working on this thing for like 5 hours straight and i feel as if ive gone no where hahaha, but ya, seems its possible to do what i wanted with this. just gonna take a few days to learn how to make it happen - -
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Coagulation
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States9633 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-05 10:56:37
February 05 2011 10:55 GMT
#4
try looking for circledock
it has spiral type icons that you can set as desktop launcher.

circledock is a program that does pretty much exactly what your describing.
Sid(TB)
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States314 Posts
February 05 2011 13:42 GMT
#5
Hmm ill have to look into that as well. been having alot of fun with rainmeter atm though seems the animation feature for circle dock would work pretty well for what i want to do, but rainmeter also lets me customize the entire desktop which is nice, i guess i could use both lol..
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