customization

How do I change the background/wallpaper color on Windows XP programatically? I'm changing the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\Background (with regedit), but changing that key doesn't change the background color, although that key is changed when I change the color from the Display Properties window. Any idea why? EDIT: ah if I change the key and reboot, the effect takes change. So how do I make it take change without rebooting? I think you need to call the Windows API function SetSysColors . You can't do it by changing the registry directly. You need to use the API

Did anyone tried to customize the window in which the quicktime is playing video? If so, can you give me a hint hoe to start implementing something like this. Thank you indeed. UPDATE: Some apps have implemented it. See it here. The phone doesn't have Quicktime, at least not in the traditional sense. Video playback is handled by a dedicated decoder on the system SoC. You cannot customize the movie player in any significant way, since doing so might cause it to fall off the hardware decode path, and it is entirely possible Apple doesn't even have a software decoder on the device. So, in other

Can you create custom data annotations for the model that can be read inside the T4 template for the View like property.Scaffold is read? I would like to add data annotation parameters like Scaffold based on which I would build the view. Thank you Johnie Karr I wrote a blog post on the solution I came up with for MVC5. I'm posting it here for anyone who comes along: https://johniekarr.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/mvc-5-t4-templates-and-view-model-property-attributes/ Edit: In your entities, decorate property with custom Attribute namespace CustomViewTemplate.Models { [Table("Person")] public class

I'm trying to customize a UIBarButtonItem using the appearance method (>iOS 5.0). It works fine for the UIControlStateNormal, but not for highlighted or disabled. See images Here's the code I use to set those: // now configure the UIBarButtonItems UIImage *buttonBGInactive = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"button-navbar-30-inactive.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 15, 0, 15)]; UIImage *buttonBGActive = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"button-navbar-30-pressed.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 15, 0, 15)]; [[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:

I used xamarin.android for develop app, I tried to customize font with code: Typeface myfont = Typeface.CreateFromAsset (Context.Assets, "fonts/KhmerOS.ttf"); but when I built, it error as shown bellow: Error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'Android.Content.Context.Assets.get' (CS0120) please help me, Best Regard Buntha This may be the late reply but might help someone with the same issue. Set BuilAction to Android Asset for font file. (Right click on fontfile->BuildAction select AndroidAsset) Try this: Typeface tf = Typeface