Can FM7 deploy a desktip picture both platforms?

[stann]

Hello

I would like to know if Filemaker pro 7 can make a desktop Picture change on both platforms somehow. ? maybe a plug in or some way I don't know about?

thanks

[CoZiMan]

If you know where the default locations are and the file names of those default files then you can replace that file. On the Mac, I think changing a plist might do it. No clue on a PC, and I'm sure each version of the Win OS is probably different as well. Doesn't seem to promising. If you bilt a plug-in for the os it would be just as easy to build an application, I'm guessing, so why plugin to FMP?:

[Fenton]

On a Mac this will let you choose it.

tell application "Finder"

set desktop picture to (choose file)

end tell

"choose file" returns an "alias," so, for an known filepath to the graphic file, that's in a FileMaker field, run inside Perform AppleScript:

set thePict to cell "DesktopPicture"

tell application "Finder"

set desktop picture to alias thePict

end tell

[i'm on OS 10.3. I don't know when "desktop picture" became usable in OS X, quite a while ago I should imagine, but maybe not in 10.0 or 10.1.]

[stann]

Thanks for the answers. Maybe FM could activate a Flash or Director application on both platforms, Is that possible.?