Google search
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 by Punkass2112 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Im brand spankin new to skinning and modifying, I can't skin at all, and am relying on the kindness of you guys to make my computer badass! 
Anyway, I saw a screenshot on a different site, and the guy had a google search thingie on his wallpaper.. how the hell do you do that? My guess was that he wrote out the HTML and then set it as a web item, but I'm curious to know if there is in fact another (better) way to do it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Anyway, I saw a screenshot on a different site, and the guy had a google search thingie on his wallpaper.. how the hell do you do that? My guess was that he wrote out the HTML and then set it as a web item, but I'm curious to know if there is in fact another (better) way to do it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Chris
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:34 AM
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:34 AM
He may have done that with the old active desktop stuff in Windows.
You can do that with DesktopX. For instance, on my desktop I've got a bunch of text-based DesktopX objects and edit box in which I can specify a search string and check off what kind of search to perform (google web search, google groups search, google image search, google current events/news search)
DesktopX doesn't give you that out of the box, you have to set up some objects and a few lines of DXscripting to do it but its pretty trivial.
You can do that with DesktopX. For instance, on my desktop I've got a bunch of text-based DesktopX objects and edit box in which I can specify a search string and check off what kind of search to perform (google web search, google groups search, google image search, google current events/news search)
DesktopX doesn't give you that out of the box, you have to set up some objects and a few lines of DXscripting to do it but its pretty trivial.
paxx
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:37 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:37 AM
Either that, or there are other applications that allow you to have web pages as your desktop. Desktop X is one, and I think Talisman too (not featured here) and aybe even NextStart (but I'm not sure about thay last one).
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Reply #1 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:33 AM
i don´t think any Stardock software can do this and as this site is pretty much a "Stardock ghetto" you will probably not get much answers here. for HTML on the desktop related questions i suggest to ask at Custo http://www.customize.org