Hide desktop icons and windows to show desktop wallpaper? - cocoa

How do you hide the desktop icons and the windows open to show the desktop wallpaper in cocoa?

Trying to show a preview??
If so you could try:
Showing a full-screen app with the image to simulate a preview.
Once user selects a wallpaper, use APIs provide to set that image as the
wallpaper.
(You could,minimise your app now)
I hope this is what you wanted to achieve...
GoodLUCK!!

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Programmatically open image full-screen in Windows 10

I'm trying to programmatically open an image from a folder and have it completely fill the screen, and it seems the only way to have an image completely fill the screen is to click the Slideshow button in Windows Photo Viewer and pause the slideshow. However, in Windows 10 it isn't even possible to programmatically open an image (at least, not via the command line, using either Windows Photo Viewer or Photos), let alone paused in slideshow mode.
If not the command-line, are there any other good programmatic solutions for what I want to do?
Hashim - You could quite easily write an app for this using open Lazarus.

Show popup window when in fullscreen mode on MacOS

Background
We are building a cross-platform application with "popup" reminders, they are custom windows/dialogs which uses QWidget.setWindowFlags like this:
self.setWindowFlags(
QtCore.Qt.Dialog
| QtCore.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint
| QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint
)
These popups show up on the systems we have tested (MacOS, Lubuntu (LXDE)), even when we switch between different virtual desktops the dialogs are still shown in the current desktop. However:
Problem
When the user is in fullscreen mode on MacOS (Sierra 10.12.6) the dialog instead is shown in the last virtual desktop that was used
Question
How can we show our "popup" dialogs to the user even when the user is in fullscreen mode on MacOS?
The short answer is that you can't and neither can any other app.
Here's why.
The idea is that when you select the fullscreen view for an app, you want to focus exclusively on that app, to the exclusion of all others. So the app not only expands to fill the entire screen, it removes the menu bar and creates its own desktop space.
You can see how this works using Mission Control (by default, swipe up with 3 fingers). You will see all the apps and all the desktops across all your monitors. Next, set an app to full screen and swipe up again. You'll see that the app has a dedicated desktop (which I believe doesn't even have wallpaper).
The bottom line is that macOS fullscreen view does not support pop-ups.

How can i identify an application flashing in windows taskbar in Testcomplete?

I need to verify if my application window flashes in the windows taskbar.Is there anyway to do that in TestComplete?
Thanks
There is no a straightforward way to do this. The only thing I can suggest is to save an image of the taskbar item before it should start flashing and then compare the actual image with the saved image. If the images are different, the window caption is flashing.

Adobe AIR: Is it possible to create a full screen app to fill multiple monitors?

I am trying to build an Adobe AIR app that runs on two monitors with an extended desktop. Is that possible?
I've read fullscreen is restricted to a single display and the only option is to maximize the app to both displays. Is that right? If so, how can I hide OSX top menu bar?
Just for the record, OSX does not allow you to have more than one full screen applications (of any kind, not just AIR) open at the same time nor it let's you to expand a full screen app to more than one display.
An application window can span multiple displays as long as the window is sized properly. Menubar and dock can also be hidden. Check NSWindow in the apple documentation for more info. Adobe may or may not support this feature.

Windows Mobile 6.5 Running Program List Icon

I've got an windows mobile 6.5 application I'm developing and am having trouble with one icon. At the top right hand of the screen there is an icon that, when clicked, will display a list of programs running the background with the option to close them.
When my program is in this list, it's icon does not show up as the others do.
I'm my exe I've got an .ico for 16x16, 22x22, 32x32, 36x36, 44x44, 45x45, 60x60, and 64x64, with the optional 90x90 png and registry setting in my cab.
What am I missing?
I'm just guessing here, but is this an HTC phone? Stock Windows Mobile does not have a "task list" icon in the system tray, so this task list is provided by the OEM. You would need to find out how they are obtaining the icon.
Chances are they are not obtaining it from the cab, but are actually getting it from your top level app window. You should check you're specifying the right icon in your WNDCLASS structure when calling RegisterClass. It is pretty common in WM to forget this because normally this icon is not visible.
Windows Embedded Handheld (Windows Mobile) 6.5/6.5.3 Appications use the exe embedded ico files only if there is no icon via registry available. In those cases the icon also look very ugly in the start menu. So you will have to add a registry entry to an icon file.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\MyApp.lnk]
"Icon"="\Windows\myapp.png"
See also: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2009/08/11/using-custom-icons-in-windows-mobile-6-5/

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