desktop background dimensions change

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keyboard(Posted 2004) [#1]
I'm asking friends to run my B+ game on their computers.
One friend has a laptop, uncertain of the specs, its pretty new, P4 I think.
The game runs fairly well, but on quit, the jpeg that is being used as a desktop wallpaper for the laptop now has dimensions of 640*480, which is the game resolution. It resets to the proper dimensions of 1024*768 on restart.

I wonder if anyone knows why this is happening?

The game runs fullscreen: Graphics 640,480,0,0

cheers


cermit(Posted 2004) [#2]
I had some desktop wallpaper problem as well, on a laptop too! I was playing around with WritePixel, some of the pixels where drawn outside of the target ImageBuffer and apparently they were placed on the wallpaper instead lol.


Lattyware(Posted 2004) [#3]
Presumably, Blitz works directly to the desktop files, which is kind of dangerous...

I suppose the answer is to use blitz to do a screengrab of the desktop, then just use that for everything.

Interesting though, It may be possible to make one to write swear words to thier desktop :D [Evil Laugh]


keyboard(Posted 2004) [#4]
I'm not intentionally writing anything to the desktop, the desktop is unchanged except the wallpaper has different dimensions ;)

its just not tidy to leave someone's pc with their wallpaper different ;)