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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
That

How did u get that analogue clock? Looks cool. :o
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
i do believe that clock is either SBSH clock or SPB clock or something.. im pretty sure its from one of those 2 developers.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vijay555:
I believe the clock is rlToday.

http://xdaforums.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!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
which is the

Whis is the version with the little clock. I don't want such a huge one running on the Today screen.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vijay555:
It's customisable. Check out his website for more examples.

V
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
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:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Re: which is the

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.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vijay555:
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.

V
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
No problem vijay, I agree its better here :D & I have completely rehashed the info now its a sticky. Anyone who has anything to add to it please let me know. I will wait a while before adding to wiki so i've got all the info right.

Me too i have often wondered where he is - anybody got his email address to contact him or something.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jess:
here are the keys unique to wm5

we need to combine our super powers, lol. we use different methods to create our themes. I don't shift the base hue, I change each value independantly to get exactly what I want.

I did find how to change the highlight color and text on menu items, here it is:

HKCU\software\microsoft\today\(themename).tsk\

here you will find values unique to wm5. I have a word doc that list their descriptions if you want. Color_Highlight and Color_HighlightText are the keys for highlight colors of menu items. Most values will take their changes immediately if you rotate the screen. some require a soft reset. I found with these 2 values you have to go into settings\today and reload your theme. strange (this is only in the case of editing the registry directly, if you create a tsk file for your theme with these values and load it, it will load fine.)

Thanks, Jess

PS I will post my inf file for a theme I am working on when I finish it and you can see all the values I change, instead of just shifting the baseHue.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Thanks jess - i guess your doc contains similar info to here http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WindowsMobile5Colors most of the work was done by Zeboxx. If your doc contains more info post it here. Yep i spotted the color_highlight key and used to good effect.

As you say we are coming from slightly different angles but remember whatever color you place in navigation bar color 1 - wm5 is using for the basehue. As you can see in practice the color you have selected their is not quite the same as the color displayed in the theme. Frustrating at first because you wonder what the hell is going on until you figure out the above info. So that is why i have opted for the basehue root because that is what wm5 is using - of course you can tweak it from there but many of the colors chosen by Wm5 default are good and compliment each other.

I have worked out from Zeboxx's work that it is key '34' in the wm5 key+ section that determines the highlight color of the items on the today screen and Color_highlight for the highlight on the start menu as we have both deduced.

Happy theme making :wink:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jess:
I definately agree with you that baseHue is much simplier and provides nice complimentry shades. In my case right now, I am creating a biege and pink colored theme...

One frustrating thing I have noticed, is the keys that are supposed to be unique to WM5, the ones under HKCU... the keys change more than just one item so be careful. For Example Color_BtnFace changes the face color of buttons, self explanitory. BUT it also changes scroll bars, border colors, and a few background colors to other things. A pain in the butt!

Thanks, Jess
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
Re: which is the

Thanks. Just one doubt I have installed the new ROM from O2 and the built-in clock is where the rlToday clock appears. What will happen when I install the rlToday clock? Will things mess up ? Or something.... just checking. Also what happens to other Today plug-ins. Thanks. :?:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Re: which is the

In settings\today\items just uncheck date and rltoday will replace this and the other plugins will stay the same. Don't forget to download and install blue.zip or you will get a big clock on your screen - lol :wink:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
Fantastic

Thanks... what can I say, this clock seems so much more cool. This is exactly what I was looking for. :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I managed to do a wm_orange theme using a different and much more complex method :shock: Water droplets orange theme added as well.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
i like the orange to bad the background couldnt come out a lil cleaner :( damn microsoft and their difficult images! so explain how u did the orange :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
To start i added photoshop plugins to xnview called harry's filters - one of these colorized the picture. I had to make it greyscale first then true color then colorize then alot of fiddling with contrast/brightness. The i had to manually edit the image to make it smoother as their were area's of distortion in the image. The image on the computer screen looks better than on the device because it is true color vs 65k on the device grrr... :shock:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
Re: which is the

Doesn't support landscape mode though... clock remains there. Any fix for that?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Re: which is the

Not with this version which is an earlier one - dont know if later versions fixed this. You can edit the skin.xml to get the desired effect.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
how's about attempting a yellow one mark :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I am in the process of that jacob - when its ready i will post it - seems harder than the orange though. As you said its partly due to the quality of the image - i have searched for an original with no avail.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
RlCalendar+RlToday

Anyway of incorporating RlCalendar? I tried installing it but it messes up the clock display. Its either the Clock or the Calendar. Can't one have both? Rltoday takes the Calendar by default. Any solution for this?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Re: RlCalendar+RlToday

As far as i am aware its not possible, but better put the question to Rotlaus here http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=54633
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
mr mark. do you happen to know which program I could use to change the colors of jpgs.. for example I have the e-ten dialer installed and want to change the colors to match my theme.. I'd like to process it as a batch if possible.. adobe takes to long changing file by file. I need to change both bmp and jpg files. I tried it in xnview but I couldn't find a batch option!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
In xnview goto tools - batch convert. Quite a few options there - hope that does it for you.

btw cannot get the yellow theme good enough to post at the moment - thinking of options :roll:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
as i sit here trying to figure out colors to try i am stumped! lol. i would like to get ahold of the tytn green theme tho to see the slight changes in apperance. has neone happen to of purchased a tytn and wants to post the .tsk file? :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Its here jacob - http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=55391&highlight=
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
EWWW lol its soooooo ugly on my mda it looks like just nasty chalky green :\

mark u spoil me with ur themes.. i expect to much from manufactures apprently lol
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tyr:
How do I make themes that use a full 320x320 image (not cropped) so my theme works in both portrait and landscape modes? This is quite important to me as I have a Wizard which I use in both orientations and I hate having bars down the sides. The only program I have found I'd have to pay for and I really can't be bothered with that at the moment.

Secondly a lot of the themes I have found that I like only work in portrait. Anyone know of a good source of themes for bot orientations?

I have managed to unpack the .tsk and find the cropped image. When I attempt to replace it I cannot as I don't know the archiving, and possibly compression system, used. Anyone got any way of modifying a .tsk manually as all it is is an archive with a colou profile.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Get ThemeGenCE its free and it will do this for you - read the tutorial on the first page of the thread. You only need to use one image stwater.gif and set the options to custom 320x320 or replace stwater.gif in the directory whilst program is running.

Second - use ThemeGenCE again - get the stwater.gif image and resize it in a photoeditor.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tyr:
Oh, right, well that is easy. Not really difficult to work out zand very handy. I'll give it a go later. Thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Diggia:
GREAT work Benoit !!!! :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BenThon:
Base 64 Encoder and Decoder

If you want to build your own TSK with _setup.xml

Meaning of Base 64

Base 2 is binary and use digits "01"

Base 10 is decimal and use digits "0123456789"

Base 16 is hexadecimal and use digits "0123456789ABCDEF"

Base 64 use digits "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/" and for padding character "="

Here is an encoder, decoder for Base 64.

First and second memos are filled by your choices in the character form (after clicking on "Insert Datas" button)

Datas in Hexadecimal.

Datas as you enter it.

After you do Encode and you get the Base 64 datas, you can click on decode to verify the other conversion.

You can also edit the third memo (the 3 others are not editable) with your Base 64 datas and decode them !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Diggia:
Benoit you're a real MODDERS ! :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] hdubli:
Any chances to animate??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Vinze:
Hello, just experimenting with themes, just downloaded thememaker, great program! but system tray and top naviagtion bar dont change colour when i down load the theme to my xda. Ive got it back on the design but coming out blue on the device? Any ideas?

Also is there anyway of making the Today screen horizontal bars disspear?

Cheers
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Only works with an animation plugin and they all cost.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I assume you have a wizard and Wm5 right?

Did you follow my tutorial on page 1? The top and bottom bar colors are determined by base hue - change this in wm5/base hue section and validate. Or you change the navigation bar color 1 only and this will also determine the base hue color.

Sorry no way of making horizontal lines dissappear but make them the closest color to your theme and they will be less conspicuous.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
any update on a yellow theme mark? :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I've done a yellow and pink - see what you think - check your pm.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
i actually really dig the pink it looks nice on the mda however it suffers from the same problem as the orange with the background looking slightly washed out! damn microsoft! hopefully someone can get ahold of a nice uncompressed background so that we can change colors without the washout look

oh and the yellow is really cool now i just gotta change all my text to black :D thanks mark!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Lurker0:
Anybody can make phone skins (for HTC TyTN and similars) to match wm_vdarkblue and wm_black2 themes? They are great!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BenThon:
ThemeGenCE 1.7.0 New Version is now online !

ThemeGenCE 1.7.0 New Version is now online !

Improvements :

Graphic User Interface clearer with 6 TabSheets to define current Theme parameters.

Ability to customize :

-Main Form of ThemeGenCE.

-5 preview Skins.

Better definition of Orientated Themes (Portrait and Landscape).

Color modifications available in Images Definition Form (RGB and HSL).

User Options saved in an INI file to have the same interface from one session to another one.

See more improvements in the HelpFile at item : "Version 1.7 improvements".

​

CodePPC Page

ThemeGenCE Page

English Version

French Version

Italian Version

Spanish Version

[size=+1]Thank to Mark (meschle) for his help and encouragements ![/size]
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BenThon:
Tutorial for ThemeGenCE v1.7

I have written a small tutorial for the last version ofThemeGenCE (v1.7) which explains step by step how to make a theme.

You only have to follow these steps to create a new Theme.

Tutorial en Français

English Tutorial

I have also put a Download mirror there for the last versions of ThemeGenCE and MSCEInf. If there are Beta versions they will be there, before publishing on CodePPC.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
Where can I find the Black dial pad skin for the black theme?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Hi kull - there is not one out but i could put one together if you like.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
That would be great! Thanks in advance.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Ok prob post it tonight
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Sorry kull taking longer than i thought and v busy at the moment being christmas and all.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
i would be madly in love with anyone who could make me this theme/skin for my hermes that is in this post here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=285242

the only thing is that i DO NOT want to use WAD, i tried it and hated it...

i can make roms, and cabs, etc, but i am seriously lacking in any kind of artistic talent that would help me make any kind of today screens or skins
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Attached is the theme - it looks like it needs some adjustment particularly in the color of top and bottom bars - i can do that if you wish when i have some time

btw kull i've not forgotten you
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
i had extracted that before, your right, the top and bottom bars need adjustment.. also this doesnt work in landscape mode either... i would very much appreciate any help on this.. but im in no hurry, so take care of kull first!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
Thanks. Everything good is worth waiting... :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
agreed.....
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Wmblack dialer

Here is the cab kull. If you use o2 mini s rom with o2 dialer this probably will not work - if you have removed the o2 addons as i have it will - let us know.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
V inspiration theme

Hi shogunmark - have modded theme so its wm5 compatible (and adjusted size so it fits well and edited white overlap flaw that was in original) - one theme with flat color tweak for soft keys and title -m3 and 2 others with base hue - m1& m2 let me know which one you prefer. To make it landscape compatible i will have to make an orientation theme - 2 separate images for landscape and portrait which i will do when you let me know which type you prefer.

Personally i like m3 - rather snazzy! All thanks to BenThon and his excellent ThemeGenCE :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
the 3rd thumbnail listed is nice.. so is 1.. but 2 seems a little to close to pink for me :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Ok i will do those 2 as orientation themes and post them when done ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
V Inspiration dual orientation themes

As promised :) Now landscape compatible too.

I like this theme, maybe i will develop some other colors - any suggestions??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
sweet, i cant wait to get home to d/l it... i bet it would make a cool dark blue theme... actually any darker color would blend with this real nicely

and thank you!!!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I thought blue would be good too so i have been playing with that - theme no problem shogunmark - thanks for all your work on the forum too!

EDIT Dark blue attached - image quality could be better - i will get vga theme and resize to see if artefacts can be eliminated.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
ooooh i really like that first one!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I have got hold of the original vga theme - the image quality is better so i will soon be able to deliver higher image quality v inspiration themes.

ta ta for now ;)

EDIT On my computer the images are clearer/cleaner but when tranfered onto my device there is little difference because of the 64K screen. I will try with the blue image the same process as this seems to be more affected.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
Thanks

Thanks for this Meschle, I am on holiday at the moment and will try it as soon as I return and let you know. Btw, what are the O2 add-ons? I have the English ROM installed. Thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
I.e. o2 active, o2 email setup etc... and specifically the o2 dialer which stops my dialer working.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Another blue V inspiration for you guys with slightly improved image and darker blue bars.

Next i will try green.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
V inspiration green theme

As promised
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
these V inspiration themes are hot, especially with the darker title and launch bar's!!! Now i cant decide which ones i want to use!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Thanks shogunmark thats an inspiration!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kull:
So how does one remove the dialer? Does your skin include smart dial too?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Do a hard reset then a soft reset before the o2 extras are added. My skin includes smartdial images but smartdial is not installed as default but i am sure the cab must be somewhere on the forum - the qtek 9100 has it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] neffets:
Thanks to meschle!!

Hi,

just wanted to thank you for your contribution to this thread, as I used the themes you posted here to learn how to use ThemeGenCE to it's fullest extent. :)

I have now managed to make a theme for the company I work for and represents it with logo and colors, as we all switched over to using the HTC TyTN a week ago. Every employee was given one due to standardizing on MS Mobile and its' capabilities of push-mail etc. My bosses were impressed and liked the theme so much that they will use it as a standard company-wide. As I've only been working here for 1 month now it definitely gave nice startup boost in the view of the bosses. :D

Again many thanks meschle for everything!

Happy New Year everybody! :)

Regards,

Steffen
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Thats ok Steffen - Happy New Year to you too - is it possible to see a preview or screen capture of the theme you made?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Crossbow theme

I have produced this crossbow theme which i believe is quite close to the original
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
very nice theme, i like it! but i am still stuck on the inspiration themes!!! :D

Thanks for all of your hard work, happy new year!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Lol shogunmark - just for you i will make a crossbow inspiration theme,

Happy new year to you too!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Crossbow inspiration theme

Ok here we go!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shogunmark:
that is awesome, thank you.. oh and by the way, someone has put your name in the hat for mod status :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Thanks shogunmark! - could that someone be you? :) I would mod when i am online, thankfully most people are well behaved ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BenThon:
TSK and XML

To continue the post here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1016599#post1016599

I have written a small program which can be also used as Viewer for TSK and allows to convert Conventional TSK to TSK with _setup.xml. Note that this only works on WM5 and maybe WM6. These TSK can have compressed datas in it. It was not possible with conventional TSK (CABs)

Program accept Drag and Drop on the form so you can see how it works quickly.

Thanks to Moderator MESCHLE for correcting my English.

Program New version : if you have a TSK with bmp images you can see differences between compressed or not compressed TSK.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Thanks BenThon that is excellent i see you are on the cutting edge of theme development and i believe xml themes will be standard in the photon release of windows mobile.

Find enclosed an xml version of the crossbow theme/
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BenThon:
TSK XML INF (WM5 previous or future OS)

New version of the program to convert TSK with a radiogroup to choose compression and compatibility with older OS than WM5 :

TSK with _setup.xml (with datas compressed in TSK)

TSK with _setup.xml (with datas not compressed in TSK)

TSK with _setup.xml and INF (with datas not compressed in TSK) to maintain compatibility with previous OS.

If you choose TSK with compatibility and you have special WM5 keys like Color_TitleFlat, name of the convert TSK must have the same name as the Read TSK.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Diggia:
WM 6 themes

This is really interesting... :)

Ps: Thanks to BenThon for his continuous work ! ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cuboosh:
k whats the deal with these inspiration themes they look icky on my device.. i dont see the big excitment over them?!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] meschle:
Hi jacob - glad you like them ;) We all have differing tastes. How you doing and what theme are you into at the mo?