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ok well ive noticed alot of people like the classic theme and im one of them! so i hope mr meschle will create wonderful colors of them! i tried doing it myself and the background always comes out awful.. i want to keep that classic windows 5 backgroud you know the one with the flag and stuff. well mark has made some wonderful colors.. green/red/purple but can you either give us a step by step guide on how you do it or make tons of colors? like yellow/orange/sky blue/deep blue/royal.. etc
im still using the green one and love it.. i switch back and forth between your purple and the mocked green windowsmobile theme
Re: wm5 *true* themes
Probably easiest way to create true wm5 themes is use 'wm5 template.tsk' or 'wm5 template color bars.tsk'(attached - unzip) and replace stwater.gif with your own one using ThemeGenCE http://www.codeppc.com/telechargements/themegence/themegence.htm - thanks BenThon for the great thememaker.
Note stwater image examples are 320x320 in size - this seems to be the default size of all the new microsoft wm5 themes, even with the new HTC_default.tsk. (Tytn theme)
Most of these themes use stwater only and leave tdywater.gif out. There is no need for both files anymore unless you want a different start menu compared to the today screen. (Stwater only themes are smaller in size too)
If you want to use image higher than 256 colors use jpg or png format and then rename extension to gif - it works! (jpg gives a smaller file)
With themegen you have to ignore a bit what's on the main preview as that is meant for wm2003 but there is a wm5 preview that is more accurate except the wm5 color keys+ are not rendered.
Next change colors of title and soft key bars etc...(With Wm5 main theme colors are now mainly determined by basehue) - best option is to deselect all the normal color selections (in the templates already deselected) and use base hue color value (click Wm5 - create BaseHue Key for the theme) or choose navigation bar color 1 and this will determine the base hue color. Then you can add key colors that are specific for your theme.
If you can't get the color you want for title or soft key bars (eg brown does not show as brown on the normal selection) use Wm5 - keys+ - Color_SoftkeyFlatCentre and Color_TitleFlatCenter. Use 'Wm5 template color bars.tsk' as a template for this kind of theme.
To change image color e.g. windows default wm5 theme
Using ThemeGenCE version 1.7.0.0 select - 'choose\modify images' icon and the use the hue slider to determine color, tweak with RGB, gamma and light/dark and your done. Save image.
Or use Xnview for pc. http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html or other photo editor and tweak the stwater.gif of the theme. Click image - change to true color. Then click adjust - hue\lightness\saturation and presto you can change the color at will mainly using the hue slider. Then you can simply change to red or another color. Save to file - choose 256 colors.
EXAMPLES BELOW OF WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY SIMPLE CHANGING OF HUE COLOR OF THE IMAGE AND CHANGING BASE HUE OF THE THEME.
New dark blue theme added (my favorite) and Wm green theme is an updated version as is new Wm_black theme
EDIT Updated wm_green and wm_purple themes. Originals were not totally right - new ones are based on one base hue key only and are superior
EDIT2 Added wm_black2 theme as black seems to be popular - this based on base hue and wm5 key+ values.
New Wm_Orange theme added
if u were a girl id make sweet sweet love to you. awsome now im gonna make 300000000000000000 different colors lol thanks a load !
jacob-mda said:
if u were a girl id make sweet sweet love to you. awsome now im gonna make 300000000000000000 different colors lol thanks a load !
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Ha ha lol jacob-mda glad you are pleased - post em here when you have made some
I will try and make a blue version of the Tytn theme later and post it here.
Water droplets blue Wm5 theme
This theme has to be classed as true wm5 theme - its stwater only (320x320) and only one basehue registry key. (i.e. color for title and soft key bars) Image saved in png format, resolution (true color) and renamed gif to make the theme. All the other colors are handled by wm5.
Theme made with ThemeGenCE courtesy of BenThon.
EDIT 5/9 added Color_highlight and '34' wm5 keys to give better highlights and improved theme.
6/9 Water droplets orange theme added
Excellent work guys, keep 'em comin'!
i cant seem to master a orange or yellow in xnview!~
True Mobile 5 themes
I have a thread started in regards to dialer skins titled - "Tired of your ugly dialer skin" I hate the tmobile dialer skin!
Anyways, I have started creating some true windows mobile 5 themes, which will also contain matching dialer skins and ringtones, smart dialer skins, etc
I got tired of downloading "windows mobile 5" themes, that were really only for 2003 and below.
For mobile 5 themes, there are 2 different sets of registry values! One is the old CE registry values set, which in general work fine. The other set changes features unique to windows mobile 5 OS. You will notice the difference when you install a theme, but some features still have remnants of your old theme.
Anyways, glad to see there are others out there trying to get some themes up!
Thanks, Jess
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i cant seem to master a orange or yellow in xnview!~
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I know jacob-mda - i tried and it just comes out muddy. Will try and think of a new way for those colors.
btw jacob as much as i like my name in the spotlight, can you remove 'meschle save us' from the thread title so that anyone can use this thread to post their WM5 themes - cheers
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jess said:
I have a thread started in regards to dialer skins titled - "Tired of your ugly dialer skin" I hate the tmobile dialer skin!
Anyways, I have started creating some true windows mobile 5 themes, which will also contain matching dialer skins and ringtones, smart dialer skins, etc
I got tired of downloading "windows mobile 5" themes, that were really only for 2003 and below.
For mobile 5 themes, there are 2 different sets of registry values! One is the old CE registry values set, which in general work fine. The other set changes features unique to windows mobile 5 OS. You will notice the difference when you install a theme, but some features still have remnants of your old theme.
Anyways, glad to see there are others out there trying to get some themes up!
Thanks, Jess
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I agree Jess, but if you look at the inf file of the water droplets theme you will see there are none of the old values, they are not essential unless you want to tweak your wm5 theme. It only has one color reference in the theme and thats the base hue value. The microsoft wm5 themes seem to have some of these old color values but i cannot see that they make any difference in say the guava bubbles tsk.
here is the inf file
[Version]
Signature = "$Chicago$"
CESignature = "$Windows CE$"
Provider = "BenThon"
[CEStrings]
Appname = "blue"
InstallDir = "%CE2%" ; (\Windows)
[CEDevice]
ProcessorType = 2577
UnsupportedPlatforms = "HPC","JUPITER"
VersionMin = 3.0
VersionMax = 100.0
[SourceDisksNames]
1 = ,"Autre",,\
[SourceDisksFiles]
stwater.gif = 1
[DefaultInstall]
AddReg = ClesRegistre
CopyFiles = CopierVersDir00
[CopierVersDir00] ; (%CE2% : \Windows)
stwater.gif,,,0x40000000
[DestinationDirs]
CopierVersDir00 = 0, %InstallDir%
[Strings]
reg_path00 = Software\Microsoft\Color
reg_path01 = Software\Microsoft\Today
[ClesRegistre]
HKLM,%reg_path00%,BaseHue,0x00010001,413
HKCU,%reg_path01%,UseStartImage,0x00010001,1
the baseHue key is great for shifting the existing theme layout to another color. I'm setting up completely unique color schemes by changing all the reg keys that matter...
by the way, any one know what reg key changes the highlight color (i.e. when in start menu or text messages) I either seemed to have forgotten, or my wizard is being stuborn to my reg changes.
thanks, jess
jess said:
the baseHue key is great for shifting the existing theme layout to another color. I'm setting up completely unique color schemes by changing all the reg keys that matter...
by the way, any one know what reg key changes the highlight color (i.e. when in start menu or text messages) I either seemed to have forgotten, or my wizard is being stuborn to my reg changes.
thanks, jess
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I have tried all of them jess - none seem to shift the highlight color - it seems to be determined by the base hue color and if you have not specified a base hue color wm5 picks the closest base hue color based on your title bar color (navigation bar color 1 - selection 5 in themegen) and hence highlight color.
I hope you understand that - if you find a key let me know :wink:
EDIT Try the highlight key in the wm5 key+ section
Looking forward to your wm5 theme posts - hopefully we can leave the thread dedicated to these.
That
How did u get that analogue clock? Looks cool.
i do believe that clock is either SBSH clock or SPB clock or something.. im pretty sure its from one of those 2 developers.
I believe the clock is rlToday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=54633&highlight=analog
I've made it sticky. No I'll have to wash the sheets.
V
PS If this info isn't already in the Wiki, please wikify it. Thanks!
PPS All hail king Meschle. Thanks as always!
which is the
Whis is the version with the little clock. I don't want such a huge one running on the Today screen.
It's customisable. Check out his website for more examples.
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I believe the clock is rlToday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=54633&highlight=analog
I've made it sticky. No I'll have to wash the sheets.
V
PS If this info isn't already in the Wiki, please wikify it. Thanks!
PPS All hail king Meschle. Thanks as always!
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Thanks vijay - I thought what the hell where's the thread gone!!!! Should have known V was on the case :wink:
I'll put it on the wiki when i've ironed out the details - I'm still learning myself - could've done with ZeBoxx's help - now where's that guy gone?? Anybody know? Ben Thon has been a great help though - cheers!
And in terms of theme making it should be King BenThon - i am an amateur in comparison :wink:
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Whis is the version with the little clock. I don't want such a huge one running on the Today screen.
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I use v0.1.3 as it uses less memory, attached is my skin and edited files to get the look shown.
replace blue folder in rltoday directory with one enclosed.
Sorry for moving the thread, but I thought that given the value of the knowledge, there was little point in leaving it in the Wizard forum, better to put it somewhere where more people would read it.
I'm slightly worried about ZeBoxx, last I heard he was feeling a bit ill. Hope he's alright.
Earth to Zeboxx, nannoo, nannoo.
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Alright.. I have been playing with themes once again and thought someone here may be able to answer some questions for me.. Here's what I've got so far..
I have noticed black themes in WM6 acting a bit odd in WM6 (remaining flat without the new WM6 glass effect) Attached image below..
I recently put Tweaks2k2 back on my device and was playing with the WM5 colors.. I placed the slider on Black and boom.. Sweet black bars..
I also went back to the color key in the reg and noticed that nothing had changed.. BaseHue value still remained at 443 = Purple and all other values were still unaffected by all changes. Color or grayscale..
So I guess my question is what values is Tweaks2k2 changing to make these black bars.. I would like to make some new themes..
Any thoughts?
It is obviously a config issue. You can't have some colours glassy and some other not. For example, I had this cool Blue theme. Both top and bottom where glassy, however after upgrading to LVSW's newest ROM all of the sudden the top bar is flat while the bottom one is glossy still.
Damn.
With every WM6 Flavor I've been able to achieve this by changing the hklm\software\microsoft\color\basehue value to 160.
I generally use the Guava Bubbles theme then change the basehue reg key, red background and black glassy bars, I think it looks pretty spiffy.
Hi, I dont know if you seen my thread on the true glossyblack in the reg hermes forum, but I was lookin how to achieve the glossy black.
You say you wanna make some new themes, what theme making software do you have? I have thememakerx nad thememker by mcdeb though Im not able to use them if you're interested, pm me(to Jakaroe808 only).
I haven't a clue what sets the glossy, if you take apart a mono black theme, and read the .ini in it, you should be able to get the values from there on the colors, but I dont know what is settin or removing the glossy, I was thinkin it was a setting in the .ini too for the glossy since some other themes lose the gloss too, but too many work on wm6 with gloss for it to be a setting in the .ini, I think.
Like I said, I haven't a clue, its all speculation, and Im not sure if either of those theme apps will directly modify the theme .ini or read it.
excuse my babbling, I do tend to run on
dkm00182;1190617 said:
With every WM6 Flavor I've been able to achieve this by changing the hklm\software\microsoft \color\basehue value to 160.
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Edited:: you are correct, I was going by the screenshots, and it looked darker to me, but after instaling tweaks2k2 I see it does just set it to 160.
Maybe Im just overly picky, and it may not even be possible, but there is still a slight gray hue in the middle of the black bar, and it can be seen even more evident when for example one of the black glossy dialers is being used.
Thing is still, is not making it a true true black with the gloss, UItweaker sets em to solid black like the solid black themes have been, and it goes flat too.
Thanks much.. I have not tried using the 160 value but I guess that is all I need to know.. I was just confused because I had the black bars but the basehue value still remained 443.. Thanks..
I also use Thememaker X and then ThemeGenCE along with WinCE CabManager.
I have never used thememaker by mcdeb but it looks like a nice app..
another quick question.. OK the 160 value works although if I load the value into a tsk (manually in Cab manager) it gets rejected.. If I switch to the new theme the bars go black for a second and then gray.. If I check the reg the value is 123.. ??? why would the device reject the value?
Nevermind.
Well.. No.. But it looks like you have a nice WA setup there.. I was referring to the default WM6 interface themes..
Jakaroe808 said:
Well.. No.. But it looks like you have a nice WA setup there.. I was referring to the default WM6 interface themes..
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I gotcha. I forgot about that registry tweak trick.
Jakaroe808 said:
another quick question.. OK the 160 value works although if I load the value into a tsk (manually in Cab manager) it gets rejected.. If I switch to the new theme the bars go black for a second and then gray.. If I check the reg the value is 123.. ??? why would the device reject the value?
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I decided to play with ThemeGenCE a bit and managed to make glassy black bars etc. I did, however, have to set the BaseHue to 160 in the registry. I kinda messed with the wmbe.tsk as a base so I won't post it since it belongs to someone else.
Cyclic Black Bars
Jakaroe808 said:
another quick question.. OK the 160 value works although if I load the value into a tsk (manually in Cab manager) it gets rejected.. If I switch to the new theme the bars go black for a second and then gray.. If I check the reg the value is 123.. ??? why would the device reject the value?
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I have wondered about this too.
I like a theme in WM5 called Cyclic Black Bars (I think it was part of Molski's ROM package for Wizard) - very shiny black bars - when I install it in WM6 either on Wizard or my Tilt, it's shiny black bars alright, but no 3-D effect. When I look at that Registry value hklm\software\microsoft\color\basehue it is 123 as you noticed above.
I tried editing this theme in ThemeGenCE. I have not been successful in modifying it so the bars have 3-D. Maybe you would have more success as you are more experienced by far - I'm just starting to play with this.
I know this thread was real old so I don't know if any of you all will notice this - hope so.
Black Bars !
Have a look here for an explanation : http://www.codeppc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10761
or here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1706271#post1706271
and here : http://www.codeppc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10730
or here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1630766#post1630766
Currently I am running Black 2.5, and would like to make my own TSK that is the same as WMBE.tsk except different backgrounds.
I opened WMBE.tsk in WinCE CAB Manager, then only replaced the GIF's with some simple ones I have made with the same name, saved the .tsk as WMBE-new.tsk, installed it on my device, AND I get my simple background with UGLY grey bars in WMBE-new.tsk. But if I load the original WMBE.tsk, I get nice solid black bars.
What is different between the original WMBE.tsk and an exact copy with different GIF's? When I compare the TSK's in CAB Manager, they are the same except for the GIF's. I also compared the complete copies of the registry with both TSK's loaded and the only difference was the name.
Yes, I know there are easier ways to get these images as my background, but I want it in a TSK and with solid black bars.
Attached: WMBE.tsk and WMBE-new.tsk
I am stumpped,
Ron
lokmeup said:
Currently I am running Black 2.5, and would like to make my own TSK that is the same as WMBE.tsk except different backgrounds.
I opened WMBE.tsk in WinCE CAB Manager, then only replaced the GIF's with some simple ones I have made with the same name, saved the .tsk as WMBE-new.tsk, installed it on my device, AND I get my simple background with UGLY grey bars in WMBE-new.tsk. But if I load the original WMBE.tsk, I get nice solid black bars.
What is different between the original WMBE.tsk and an exact copy with different GIF's? When I compare the TSK's in CAB Manager, they are the same except for the GIF's. I also compared the complete copies of the registry with both TSK's loaded and the only difference was the name.
Yes, I know there are easier ways to get these images as my background, but I want it in a TSK and with solid black bars.
Attached: WMBE.tsk and WMBE-new.tsk
I am stumpped,
Ron
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Try this one works for me in WM6 with LVSW
mikeo97 said:
Try this one works for me in WM6 with LVSW
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True, I have other TSK's that give Black Bars, but they do not have the background GIF's I made... just being picky.
Thanks,
Ron
Hi there!
I've installed the Orange (Provider) TouchFLO Theme on my Diamond with the draggable analog clock. But it's not that complete as i hoped, especially the Taskbars are black instead of inverted like on the attached pic!
Does anyone have the original UK ORANGE ROM?
from where can i get?
You Can find it in the Themes Thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=409901
I dont think orange uk have that theme.
mine and a lot of others came from orange with the
normal htc black theme on them.
orange uk had problems with there theme so i heard.
OK, but i've already seen screens of a english version of the orange rom. Has anybody have an idea how to get this rom?
that clock is from france
it not for the u.k...yet any how
OK, thanks.
Is there ANY English Version of the Orange TouchFLO ROM?
Im beginning to ask myself the question of why you would want such an ugly TF3D on your phone.
When i signed up for the orange version of the Diamond, i was hoping and praying that it was HTC original which it seems to be, but i have just enquired to Orange about the possibility of a 1.93 update, and the programmers who called me back said there is one coming, but no release date at the moment.
I assume by their comments that the update will include the TF3D version that they had problems with in the 1.37 original rom. So if you really want it bad enough, then wait for that 1.93 update.
The skin of the taskbar is from the .tsk Today theme. So you may not need a complete ROM change but just the tsk file.
Regards,
Carty..
Have you got an idea WHERE i can get a tsk file that is white / grey like on the pic AND is inverting the Icons on it!
go into your settings and click on today icon.
check if any of the availble themes are orange tsk
as you might have to change it seperately.
worth a try anyway.
if not get a french rom from here and extract tsk theme file and
manilla icon files.
Been searching for that for a long long time.. Couldn't find it.. Only with a styling software, but that will not invert the icons. I think I tried some SPB software (or Wisbar Advance), but it became ugly and icon colours were still white. RC Mod is also a program to edit the bar colors, but it has limited color selection.
Rotkaeqpchen said:
Hi there!
I've installed the Orange (Provider) TouchFLO Theme on my Diamond with the draggable analog clock. But it's not that complete as i hoped, especially the Taskbars are black instead of inverted like on the attached pic!
Does anyone have the original UK ORANGE ROM?
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I have installed this theme from the provided link,,,,but i am not getting that white top and bottom bar....
can someone please provide me solution?????
This was my problem too, ... i think no way, exept someone can extract it from the Orange-ROM?!
Rotkaeqpchen said:
This was my problem too, ... i think no way, exept someone can extract it from the Orange-ROM?!
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Are the top and bottom bars part of the Windows theme? If I go into Start > Settings > Personal > Today and select the Windows Green theme then go back to my home screen the bottom and top bars are green with touchflo showing as normal HTC theme. Surely you just need to install a theme with silver bars and use that as the windows theme along with your orange touchflo theme?
I've never seen a single silver theme for wm6, all you can get is a dark grey taskbar.
Hi,
i recently switched to wm6.5 (miri).
Now i want to use customized backrounds for my HD -> those from "Lost in Asia ROM".
As I want to use a different bg for landscape and portarit - I think I have to use a Theme do I?
So I tried to genarate one with ThemeGenCE.
MS Theme Gen doesnt support new WVGA themes...
But When I use my generated them it didn't set the pictures.. and it messes up the new "WM6.5 Lockscreen" completely.
I also tried to modify an existing theme (renaming to zip) and replace the pictures inside (skwater 001 and 002) and repack but it didn't work either... same as above.
Anyone knows how generate a working WM6.5 Theme?
I would also help just to know the REG-Key or where to place my bg files to set this up.
THX
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Can't be that hard I tought? No one got this problem?
To be honest I'm not sure what you actualy want? When you say theme do you also mean different colour theme for Portrait and Landscape? not sure if this is possible?
However if you are refering to having different background of your choice for Portrait and Landscape then you can simply rename any .jpeg picture of your choice to stwater_480_800.jpg (Portrait) and stwater_800_480.jpg (Landscape) then simply copy them over to windows folder using resco file explorer or total commander! if you already know this then I'm sorry I could not help you on this occasion!
THX
no didn't know that it's that easy... I'll try.
I know its not possible to have different colorschemes for Port. & Land.
By theme, I meant the *.TSK Files which one could create for WM. They contain the Pictures for Port. & Land. + the colorscheme information.
As I described above I didn't get it managed to create such a file working on WM6.5 using a theme generator- worked on 6.1 - but messes up the new WM6.5 Lockscreen
So the question for a working WM6.5 theme generator is still open but not that important to me now.
Thank you, if that works, its all I want (for now) ;-)