Need more details about making a live wallpaper on Windows with C++

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Is there any blogs or references about how Windows controls its windows, especially the ones related to wallpaper layer, icon layer, etc.?

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Castorix31 90,686

The main step is to send 0x052C to "Progman" and find "WorkerW" window

You can find samples and articles on Google, like :

Rer 80 Reputation points

2023-10-08T15:44:41.11+00:00

Thanks! I'm reading this article, and it's a bit challenge since I haven't learn about how windows interact with each other before. Do you have any other recommended books or articles to deeply understand some of the underlying principles (?) of it?
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2023-10-08T17:10:28.99+00:00

It depends on what you want to do.

For Live Wallpapers, it is a particular case of windows hierarchy, not officially documented by MS, but used by tools like MLWapp