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windowspython-2.7ctypes
Sidharth Ghoshal
Sidharth Ghoshal

Reputation: 720

How to Change Windows background using Python 2.7.3

I am using windows 8 (not yet updated to 8.1)

The code I am using is

import ctypes

SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20

ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, "word.jpg", 0)

print "hi"

For some reason regardless if i give it a valid image (in the same directory as program) or not, regardless of type of image (bmp, gif, jpg) the code always ends up setting my background to a black screen.

Why is this? How can it be fixed?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1218

Answers (2)

user3724292
user3724292

Reputation: 21

Sorry, I know this is late, but the problem is that you need to include the path. Instead of "image.jpg" do r"C:\path to file\image.jpg" Otherwise python doesn't know where to look for the image.

Upvotes: 0

ooga
ooga

Reputation: 15511

Try passing SPIF_SENDCHANGE (which is 2) as the last parameter. You might also need to bitwise-or it with SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE (which is 1).

Upvotes: 2

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