[AceLightning]

Does anybody have any idea how to do this? possibly using ms paint?

Thanks

[AceLightning]

er... the jpeg will have to contain a date and the users login, so it won't be constant.

[ChuckE]

What? You want a program to create a picture?

Or, perhaps you meant you want a .EXE file that displays a picture, even a group of pictures? Like a slideshow?
If the latter is correct, check into IrfanView.

It can be used to create a slideshow, and you can have date info and file name info displayed at the same time.

[dez_666]

In your other thread

http://forums.techguy.org/developmen...rates-jpg.html

take notice i mentioned BGinfo might help you.

[blaqDeaph]

plz dont double post hdd space isnt free

[AceLightning]

Yeah, I need a program that will create a picture. As in generate a jpeg, containing text mostly in a box. Thing is the text will have to be the username and the date so it will always be changing.

Thanks

[AceLightning]

unfortunately, BGInfo doesn't really work for what I'm doing here, it needs to be more customizable.

[dez_666]

BGinfo is customizeable...?

Anyways, you could probably do something with the command "NET USER %USERNAME%"

maybe a system function in C++ if you know c++

[AceLightning]

well bginfo is too big, and it doesn't really allow me to format it how I like. Just need a small box that says Prepared by: USER_NAME on DATE

[dez_666]

I dont know if you are up for buying a program online, and I dont know the importance of this, but you can make a simple batch program using this program here-

http://www.xuebrothers.net/console/text2img.htm

You would just need to run "Net user %username%", that is if you dont log onto a network, and then pass that output to the program I linked.

It would give you a lot of info you might not need, but it is still what you want.

[blaqDeaph]

In which case, you probably need to be posting in the programming forum, if you're talking about creating your exe file. Shouldn't be too hard to do in Java or C++.

Basically its a way to try and stop users from copying the image right?

[Squashman]

So you want something similar to a watermark.

[ChuckE]

I was thinking he perhaps wanted a desktop image that actually had Username and perhaps other hints (like a language) implanted on it.

(I used to do a similar "trick" when I was testing many different languages and OS's for some software I was hired to test. Having the desktop image inform me, when I was looking over half a dozen screens at the same time, helped me keep it straight.)

[blaqDeaph]

In that case why embed it in a program? Wouldn't it just be better to make the image (using photoshop or a script) then load it onto the desktop of the computer?

[dez_666]

Originally Posted by blaqDeaph

In that case why embed it in a program? Wouldn't it just be better to make the image (using photoshop or a script) then load it onto the desktop of the computer?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...us/BgInfo.mspx

Its customizeable too >_> its not *just* limited to the preloaded setup.