Tiling an object
Thursday, October 23, 2008 by theAVMAN | Discussion: DesktopX
I have an image that when apllied I want to tile accross the whole desktop with a Zorder below everything but the wall paper.
There is no mouse over or pressed state just 1 image to be tiled and sit staticaly
Thank you A/V 
Reply #2 Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:12 PM
Actually I want it to sit on top of what ever wallpaper is already applied.Basically it will add an effect to any wall!
I could make the image huge and tell it to center but I thought 250x250 image tile would be much smaller and then it would work on any res.
Reply #3 Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:24 PM
OK, no promises
On teh state tab select advanced and set it to tile. No other changes
Then go to the summary tab adn set the width and height to 1000 each.
Let me know what that does.
Reply #4 Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:35 PM
You the man!! I now have rain all over my desktop !Thank you!
Reply #5 Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:42 PM
Glad I could help. There might be a better way to script it but I couldn't find any code to steal borrow [ 
@ RomanDA]. DX scripting is some pretty powerful stuff but the basic config can do some magic shit stuff.
Send object to me?
How are you handling icons on Desktop? What about Fences?
Reply #7 Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:06 PM
Doesn't look so hot on a very dark desktop . . but that's probably not part of your plan,
I set the activation to none on the Relation tab. Otherwise I couldn't click on anything.
Looks really cool with the bouncing box dream
Nice work!
Reply #9 Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:10 AM
Zubaz thaank you for your help! 
Zu and Tim thank you both for testing! 
I ended up making 1 for lighter walls and 1 for darker walls!
Thanks again guys
Reply #10 Saturday, October 25, 2008 6:11 PM
Hey, that's the way I would've done it. No need to script anything unless you want to get the wallpaper colour value and have the rain image adjust itself automatically. I think that'd be pretty cool. If memory serves correctly there's an object or widget in the gallery that demonstrates how to read pixel values.
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Reply #1 Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:57 PM
Like a wallpaper?
Here is a tutorial (with a very funny sample image name): https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/documentation/DX-sbs-9.asp