Creating glowing L wallpaper
If you are a Death Note fans, you should notice that L has a Mac with big L font as the wallpaper. Now I’m going to teach you how to create a glowing L for XP wallpaper.
Introduction:
In Windows XP, users can set a html file as the wallpaper. I’m going to use this function to embed a flash clip in a html file and set it as the wallpaper.
Softwares that I used:
Macromedia Flash 8
Notepad ++
The first step is to get yourself a background image. I’m using a Mac wallpaper from Panther theme.
Then, create a glowing L flash clip using Macromedia Flash. Use a portion of the wallpaper as the flash background. Be creative but make sure you make it as simple as possible as it will consume less resources. Here’s mine.
Now comes the coding part. Fire up your text editor.
Basically I’m going to create two layers. One for the background. One for the flash clip.
The code should be something like this
<html>
<body>
<body bgcolor="#2e5ea8">
<style type="text/css">
div.back{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
color: green;
}
div.flash{
position: absolute;
top: 97;
left: 268;
width: 477;
height: 54;
color: green;
}
</style>
<div class="back"><img src="blue.jpg" height="768" width="1024"></div>
<div class="flash"><embed src="L.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="477" height="569" name="Lback" align="middle"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Make sure that you put the background image, flash clip and the html file in the same path. Now you’re ready to set it up as the wallpaper.
Right click on desktop|Properties|Desktop Tab|
Browse the html file and click apply. You’re done.
If you don’t understand feel free to ask me. I also provide a lazy-package for those who don’t have time to code. Download it here.
