What’s up guys? Got a sweet and short tutorial for you today!

Before we begin, I want to clarify this tutorial is for Windows 10. I’m pretty sure it should work for other Windows version as well. I will probably make a Linux version for it soon too, so watch out for it! If you’re interested in it for a different operating system, leave a comment below.

Also, if you just want the script and don’t care about the article, head all the way down to the end of the post where you will find a download for either the Python 2.7 version or Python 3 scripts. Please watch the video though, so you know the instructions to get the script working (its easy!).

Yesterday I was looking for a way to automatically change the background / wallpaper of both my monitors using a Python script (every X seconds).

Although I was able to find a few sources to change the background, it would change the background for both of my monitors at once.

I then ran into this stackoverflow post, where a user replied suggesting merging two images into one and then setting the background as a tiled image using Win32 API functions – thank you fine sir.

Well, luckily I had some previous experience with Win32 API and its functionality under Python and I also had some experience working with images in Python using Python Imaging Library (PIL).

I decided this could be a fun little challenge and set out to do it. 😉

[ Part 1 (Overview) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 ]

Welcome to my blog’s first tutorial series!

Hey guys! Ready to write some code?

We’ve put a lot of work in these past five parts and today is no exception, however, we’ll try to take it easy after that insanity in the last article.

Looking back I probably should’ve broken that last article in more parts. At the same time, I guess it serves to separate the kittens from the lions. 😀

Enough jokes for now, let’s keep moving…

Today we’ll be implementing the second part to the text-based user interface which is what I call the active client chat screen.

Of course this also requires us to first implement the logging system for all of our clients, along with notifications as well.

Besides that we’ll add a few more features to wrap it up.

Dive Into The Code

I’m gonna focus on the main blocks of code added this time, so right off the bat, let’s jump into the new ‘active client chat screen’ interface…