Picture of the Day

If you want some more personal background, have a look at my blog post about this project.

The idea of “Picture of the Day” is to show a unique picture for every day of the year. The application launches on startup and displays the current picture. There is also a button to show all the previous pictures. The program is written in Java and for the graphics JavaFX is used. The pictures are taken out of a predefined folder and are named with numbers from 1 to 365. The installer automatically creates a shortcut to the application in the autostart folder. Please note that, obviously, Java has to be installed on the target machine.

If you’ve read my blog post, you know that I was in a hurry to finish this project. Therefore, you might require quite some steps to reuse my code for your own purposes. The most important thing should be changing the hardcoded year. Then, of course, have enough pictures for the whole year at hand. Check out the source code on my Github. You can also find there two .bat files, one for launching the application and one for making the application “autostart”. You can use these scripts to create your own installer for the calendar.

If there are any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me directly!