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
Re: True Mobile 5 themes
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.
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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
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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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New theme created with only color changes and a new background
Download cab
View attachment 152638
I personally think it would look better if the blue was either a pale or a dark blue, as opposed to the pure blue which you used there. It would make it look more modern if u found the right shade.
trying my hand at a tribal theme. What do you think? Notifiers on email, missed calls, sms etc. are shown by the blue border you see around the phone icon.
looks nice, but i would prefer black background and white tribals
but hey: you are the artist
Looking nice buddy, will keep up with this one on the website
Rabauke100 said:
looks nice, but i would prefer black background and white tribals
but hey: you are the artist
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Once it gets done I will invert the colors and make a black one. real life got me swamped but I will get there soon. thanks for the feedback
Looks real nice Mallman, love the icons!
has anyone come up with a new theme or background for nfsfans 6.5 touchflo today screen? i actually prefered the old screen (v13 and previous). i've actually considered re-flashng back to v13 just to have the plain black today screen, versus the little colored lights.
if someone or someones would post pics of their themes (with links where they got them, or in the case of those who developed their own, post them) it would be much appreciated.
Read this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4449418&postcount=10059
And this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4456865&postcount=10120
These will set a black theme for you. I have made a new transparent theme for TMZ, but the new version of Manilla (V2.0 1919) has a new clock and weather on the home page changing things again. I plan to patch my themes to work with the newest version and re-release them.
Guys and Gals
One of the things I like about the Touch HD is the Black case and buttons, I'm quite a minimalist at heart. I installed Max Manila to reduce the number of buttons and icons on the screen and have installed the Black Metal top line icons.
However in peoples opinion which is the best black and white theme? If you could include screenshots or a link to a thread I'd be grateful.
Regards
gtx sense without a doubt.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=592584
shame developement has been stopped. someone else has taken over the project and has made some changes but the original is my favourite. there arent really any problems with it in its current state
Sorry I should have been clearer, GTX is a really nice theme but it's too white. If there was an inverted version of it I would have been very close!!
what about just plain old manila 2/2.1 or even the stock version?