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   Petr Laznovsky to All   
   Re: Display bitmap image from console co   
   10 May 18 11:45:47   
   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   Dne 10.5.2018 v 6:55 Auric__ napsal(a):   
   > Petr Laznovsky wrote:   
   >   
   >> Dne 9.5.2018 v 18:21 Auric__ napsal(a):   
   >>> Petr Laznovsky wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Looking for console command to display bitmap image on desktop for   
   >>>> arbitrary number of seconds, but without usual display programs   
   >>>> window, only image itself should be displayed. Tranparency possibility   
   >>>> will be an advantage.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yeah, good luck with that.   
   >>   
   >> Do not know why you wish good luck for me.... Many windows programs   
   >> installations have thing called "splash screen" which did exactly what I   
   >> need. If this is an open source, than only take proper part of code and   
   >> put in into separate program.   
   >   
   > But that's not a program built into Windows, that's a function of the   
   > installers. They're calling Windows APIs, not some .exe file somewhere.   
   >   
   >> I am a non-programmer, batch scripting is only what I known, so I could   
   >> not write my own utility :-/   
   >>   
   >> L.   
   >>   
   >> BTW: Looking for console program, not a command as I wrote in my first   
   >> post   
   >   
   > Did you *try* the Google search I suggested?   
      
   Spend few hours with google but without result   
      
   >   
   > ImageMagick might be able to do it, if you can figure out the right   
   > combination of switches. (I couldn't, but I didn't try very hard.)   
   >   
   > Or perhaps IrfanView, although I have my doubts there.   
      
   Thanks. I have looked for single purpose utility, but this could be solution   
   too.   
      
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