[smacintush]

I am not "new" to AppleScript, but I am somewhat of a novice (in terms of skill level). I usually steal or record my script code, but I cannot figure out how to write a script to change my Desktop Picture in OS X.

Can ANYONE help me?

Thanks in advance,

sMacintush™

[ 04-29-2002: Message edited by: smacintush ]

[seb2]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
tell application <font color = red>"Finder"</font> to set the desktop picture to <font color = red>"Frunse:Users:sebictures:Hirn.tif"</font>
</font>[/code]

where "Frunse..." is the path to a picture on my hd. i left it in there to show the kind of colon separated path it requires.

use
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
osascript -e 'tell application <font color = red>"Finder"</font> to set the desktop picture to <font color = red>"Frunse:Users:sebictures:Hirn.tif"</font>'
</font>[/code]
if you want to embed it in a shell script or an nstask.

[smacintush]

Thank You! You are the man! I was doing it right except I had the path format wrong.

[gee308]

this is a perl script i have running at startup:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$dir = "/Users/toyboy/pics/";
opendir(dir, $dir);
@pics = grep { /.jpg/ && !/default.jpg/ } readdir(dir);
system("cp $dir/$pics[rand(int(@pics))] $dir/default.jpg");

Grabs a random jpg file from that dir.
default.jpg is the system background pic