Classic Shell: Forum

I think it'd be cool on the Start Button Tab, after Custom Button, where it says "Custom Image", if we could also have a "Custom Folder" and then also a setting to display "Time Interval Between Rotation"

so we can put all of our Orbs in One Folder and point to that, then set it to change to the next .png in the file after 30 minutes, or whatever we set it to, and maybe select "Random" or "In Order" or something

this feature seems a little to advanced in my opinion
but you can already do this with a few lines of external code
(make a program that periodically renames all the files in a folder with incremental names), set classic shell to one of those files, and make the program restart classic shell)

Example:
lets say you have

1.bmp - file A Your current button
2.bmp - file B
3.bmp - file C
with classic shell set to show 1.bmp

after the first run, the files would be:
2.bmp - File A
3.bmp - File B
1.bmp - File C Your button after first run

and so on...
asfar as coding it, this one wont be random, but it will atleast cycle all the files in the folder (which i actually prefer over random), but you could always make it random

ah,.. do you have a script I could add to Task Scheduler for that?

not on hand, i could probably make one fairly easily, although maybe that joejoe renamer youve got could come in handy (if theres a way to send it arguments)

i did have a program a while back designed to change the desktop background more randomly (by overwriting a single file with a random file from a directory), i duno what its called, but try googling around for "random background changer" or something similar, it was a fairly simple program but it got the job done, and would likely work in this situation