Views the latest images from e621 directly at your desktop.

Why would you want posts to be displayed on the Desktop? Well, why not? x)
This was designed as some kind of win vista/7 sidebar gadget so, yea...

This is one of my first Java apps, starting three years ago. I wrote/tested it on Win7.
I could tweak and play with the code forever, but i decided to just upload it.

Features

► Save images to your hard-drive
► Use a custom Filter (this is basically your search string)
► Randomize results (using your filter)
► Automatically refreshing (you may set the interval between 0 and 1440 min)
► Change the frame-size
► Blacklisting certain tags (in case the filter is not enough)
► Images may now be cached reducing network traffic

Also there's a README no one will read for more total useless information

Download from DropBox (r24)
Source Code from DropBox (r23)
My XML and INI reader are not included in the source (cuz I don't want to)

In case anyone is actually using this:
I just updated it as with the recent changes request parameters appear to have to be URL encoded.
Also it should get randomly stuck any more.
(It is ok to necro for such an update, amiright?)

screens plz

sounds interesting but i have a question on the filter(s). could it be set to only show "safe" pics?

Eyyy! Thank's bro! I just wish there was a feature that automatically put the window in front of the other windows at all times if that's even possible.

cuberope said:
screens plz

I think screens would be pointless because this is really just a floating image on the desktop.

treos said:
sounds interesting but i have a question on the filter(s). could it be set to only show "safe" pics?

Just add rating:s to the search tags in the option dialogue. I did not implement an option to switch to e926.
You may also add rating:q and rating:e to the blacklist, though that might result in a "to many blacklisted items in a row" error-message.

Lite3000 said:
Eyyy! Thank's bro! I just wish there was a feature that automatically put the window in front of the other windows at all times if that's even possible.

Window focus in Java is really strange as to what I noticed. So I won't try to do anything related to that.

rebane said:
(It is ok to necro for such an update, amiright?)

Yeah that's fine.

I like it! Would love to have a good way to quit the application on Windows though (without having to find kill the java process).

Any plans to open-source it?

aw, sunnuva... why do download links do this to me? i can't right click > save as on that download link at the drop box page and when i left click it automatically brings up my flashget download manager yet doesn't try to start the download at all.

what i mean is, i left click and the popup box for firefox that asks how you'd like to download the file opens and closes then hello download manager.

edit: there, got it. just had to use a different download manager. ty jdownloader

dos_tacos said:
I like it! Would love to have a good way to quit the application on Windows though (without having to find kill the java process).

Any plans to open-source it?

Maybe with the next release (to both)
If I remember...
I'm a lazy person x)

rebane said:
Maybe with the next release (to both)
If I remember...
I'm a lazy person x)

Sweet, looking forward to it.
I fully understand the laziness though, haha.

Very Nice! I see why a screencap would be pointless.

Is there an 'always on top' ability, or a location lock? I ask because it moves around a lot on touchscreens.

Another Update

HF

EDIT: Just fixed a small bug that would reset some config values...

How do I install this?

GenericUsername69 said:
How do I install this?

Start by making sure that Java is installed. Then extract the files from the provided .zip link on the OP and run the .jar file included by double clicking it - that should do it! :P

I feel like I'm being stupid here... I can't seem to close it! XD. I can't see an option to close the app. Also (although due to it being a Java app), it would be great to have a logo on the taskbar that we could use to indicate the app running, and also bring it to front without having to minimise windows / Alt+Tab through until we find it...

All in all, great stuff! Thanks!

blazingfury1996 said:
I feel like I'm being stupid here... I can't seem to close it! XD. I can't see an option to close the app. Also (although due to it being a Java app), it would be great to have a logo on the taskbar that we could use to indicate the app running, and also bring it to front without having to minimise windows / Alt+Tab through until we find it...

All in all, great stuff! Thanks!

You can close it by holding shift and clicking the minimize button. And it does not show up in the taskbar on purpose as it was designed as a kind of sidebar gadget. But the windows Sidebar was sadly removed and I never understood how writing stuff for that worked...

Noticed a few corrupted images in my 3500+ cache folder, so here's the fix.

P.S.: Too lazy to update sources

Well I'm a little late to the party, but though I love this app, after a few picture rotations, it just gives the "hes dead jim!" message, i have it set to refresh every 1 minute, is that too fast or something?