bsetbg / bsetroot don't apply image

Liquid> i have win8.1 x64 at home and bsetroot/bg worked fine. may be win8.1 32bit quirk.

Avail> i'll try to add some debug printouts in bsetroot/bg and we'll see what's happening.

for example when i use bsetroot/bg there is a quite long pause (1-3 seconds) before bsetroot sets really the color of the desktop. i find that annoying, this should be instantaneous...

Try this one... it's 32bit. I added some debug printouts to bsetroot.

Here is how it looks on my computer:

$ ./bsetroot.exe -solid lightseagreenLaunching bsetroot.exeStopping hourglassReading bsetroot.rcParsing commandlineGot screen resolution: 1920 x 1200Creating gradientEntering set_background_colorLeaving set_background_colorWriting imageEntering setwallpaperLeaving setwallpaperTerminating

Between Entering set_background_color and Leaving set_background_color the background color should be set.

Then it writes it to image somewhere in ~/AppData and sets this one in registry.

If you have problem running the executable, you may need msvc 2012 32 bit redistributables.

Liquid> i have win8.1 x64 at home and bsetroot/bg worked fine. may be win8.1 32bit quirk.

Sorry, yes, I meant the 32 bit version. I have Win 8.1 x64 and it works fine for me too

shiiit...take

okay i tried the bsetroot on win 8.x with blackbox 'as shell' (which i do not do normally).

aaand guess what: bsetroot does not work anymore

so i tried to debug that.. and hit some wall.

if explorer is as shell everything works normally.

if blackbox is as shell i am not able to set even solid colour like you did.

there is a simple function that does this

void set_background_color (COLORREF color){    const int lpaElements[1]  = {COLOR_BACKGROUND};    const COLORREF colours[1] = {color};    SetSysColors(1, lpaElements, colours);}

but on win8.x with bb as shell it simply does nothing. no hint of a failed call or set getlasterror, from the outside the call seems to result successfully..

Man there are problems with both running it as shell and not as shell, but it seems to work best running explorer as shell and put a bblean shortcut on startup. There's a problem i have with running explorer as shell and bblean on top of that though. This happens sometimes and I don't know why (3 invisible tabs spawns from nowhere and nothing happens when you click them):

To get rid of it I have to manually close bblean and start it again. Do you know why it happens and is there a way to make it not happen?

Man there are problems with both running it as shell and not as shell, but it seems to work best running explorer as shell and put a bblean shortcut on startup. There's a problem i have with running explorer as shell and bblean on top of that though. This happens sometimes and I don't know why (3 invisible tabs spawns from nowhere and nothing happens when you click them):

To get rid of it I have to manually close bblean and start it again. Do you know why it happens and is there a way to make it not happen?

yes i saw that once.. probably a bug in blackboxbar, hard to say. it seems not to be destructive, but i have to find a repro case to debug it.

i tried to fix the wallpaper on win 8.1.. not entirely sure i succeeded

can you test if it helps with the problem, please?

 bbZero_install_1.18.0-6-gddb3_mojmir.rar   18.75MB   14 downloads

Thanks, mojmir. Fixed the problem for me, now I can change with bsetroot command. (Windows 8.1 x64bit)

great i will merge it into master branch and do a build on monday, thanks for confirmation

Mojimir, reporting little issues on this version.. not like it bother me, but more like I want you to know about this. When I set wallpaper on bsetroot.exe, the wallpaper used before not is saved after reboot the system (back to Solid grey color for me.) But this is a little issue for me because I change my wallpaper via batch script after start blackbox (via config. on Extensions.rc startup option) take like a (10~15sec after system inicialization). Another thing is the background change instantly when I see Wallpaper options on BBStyleMaker (Image is already set on this option).  

so this is a new issue related to rc4? (i did some changes for wallpapers on win8.. it may broke something else)

I think is it.. using your patch version "bbZero_install_1.18.0-6-gddb3_mojmir.rar". But, yesterday I made new install of a ver. rc5 and working perfect now. =)