Hide My Desktop.

[Bill Cravener]

I made up this little tray utility for a client that I do work for who wanted a simple way to hide private info he often has open on his desktop when he is interviewing someone so it can not by seen by prying eyes yet be able to quickly restore the desktop as it was. I wanted to keep it short simple and sweet so looking thru the SDK API's I decided to go with Windows "PaintDesktop" API. It worked out perfectly and here is the result.

This makes a total of 20 simple yet useful examples available at "My Masm32 Examples" website, enjoy! :bg

http://www.quickersoft.com/examples/HideDesktop.zip

Or it can be downloaded from my site link below.

[dedndave]

very nice, Bill
it also gives us a nice tray example   :U

when i saw it, it made me think of Erol's scroll desktop demos...
http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=2172.0
http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=13318.0

that last one is especially cool   :8)
it wouldn't be hard to combine it with your code - lol

i don't recall seeing a screensaver example, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out
could do something similar there, too, i guess

[Bill Cravener]

Thanks Dave. :bg I figured it might be of interest to some, especially those out to learn masm32. Pretty simple utility I'd say (made $50 out of it though) but then again I've been at this asm thing since the mid 80's. It isn't the programming part that is difficult it's being creative at what you know that I find the hardest. These days most of the programming that I make money off of is html, javascript and flash.

[dedndave]

These days most of the programming that I make money off of is html, javascript and flash.

that's a real shame
hate to see skills go to waste

[hutch--]

Nicely done Bill, works fine here.  :U

[Bill Cravener]

Thanks Steve, I appreciate that! :bg

I really wish there was a demand for asm coders (other then games) I'd be at it for sure but don't cut html, javascript and flash short they make me a good bit of money though I often find it rather boring. For example I'm the author and webmaster of Robbie Knievels motorcycle manufacturing website and it pays pretty well. I also am the author and webmaster of near a dozen other websites and when I include the skilled trade my father taught me I make an OK living. I guess you do what you got to do to make it, boring or not.