[HTC Excalibur] prelives14:
Hey guys! I haven't been on this forum in a long, long time, so I don't know if this following tutorial will be of any help or not.

A while back, I created this to help a fellow forum member change the icons on panels not created using Chome Config. I don't know if any of this will work in WinMo 6.5, but this should work in 6.1. I'm sorry if this has already been covered somewhere else, or is posted in the wrong place, but hopefully this might be able to help someone

Well, first off, you have to create the icons. Check out iconarchive.com or iconspedia.com, they have some pretty beast icons.

Okay, after you decide which icons you wanna use you have to edit them a bit so they will fit and look nice. The icons have to be in PNG format.

Making the Icons

1.) The Small Inactive Icon is the icon that will show up when you are not on that panel. You should resize this icon to 22x22. Usually, a black and white or dim version of the original icon works nicely, since it is "inactive" and in the background.

2.) The Small Active Icon is the icon that will show up when you are on that panel. Again, this should be 22x22, and the original colour icon works nicely, since the icon is "active" and at the center of attention.

Whoaa! As you can see, there is no active icon in the home screen shots above, because i am using the HTC Panels on the Rose Rom. If you are using the regular sliding panels then the active icons will show up at the top of the current panel, left the name of the panel (It would be directly left of the word Settings in the picture, for example.)

3.) The Main Panel Icon is the large icon in the center of the panel. A 256x256 icon works nicely, so no resizing is necessary.

You will need one of each of these for each panel.

Inserting the Icons

Okay, so after you have created the active and inactive icons, you have to edit the registry. Note: You only have to edit the registry for panels that you did not make (such as the clock, the appointments panel, etc.).

1.) Save the icons to your phone or you storage card.

2.) Open your registry editor, select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

3.) Go down and select SOFTWARE.

4.) Go down and select Microsoft.

5.) Then Select Chome.

6.) Once inside Chome, you will see a list of all the available panels.

7.) So, say, for example, you want to edit the CAppointments Panel first. Select CAppointments from the list.

8.) Okay, here, look for ICONPATHS. Across from this you should see 2 four digit numbers seperated by a semicolon, something like this (the numbers might be different): 2251;2251. The first number is the active icon and the second is the inactive one. Click on ICONPATHS.

9.) You will see this:

Replace the first number under String (in front of the semicolon) with URL of your active icon. For example, you would put "\My Documents\My Pictures\active_icon.png" (without the quotation marks) or whatever. It all depends where you stored your icon and what you named it, so the URL you put will be different than this.

10.) Replace the second number with the URL of the inactive icon. So it will look something like this:

String:

\My Documents\My Pictures\active_icon.png;\My Documents\My Pictures\inactive_icon.png

NOTE!!! Make sure you seperate the 2 icons with a semicolon, as this is very important.

11.) Click Done.

12.) Whoaa! You're done with the active & inactive icons for this one panel. Now time to change the Main Icon. You should be at the CAppointments folder. Select Images.

13.) You will see a long list of icons, each with a corresponding 4-digit number. Say you wanna change the New Appointments icon. Select "chCalendar_addnewappointment"

14.) You will see a screen similar to Step 9. Again, change the 4-digit number under String to your icon's URL. So it will look something like this:

String:

\My Documents\My Pictures\main_icon.png

(or whatever you named the icon and where ever you placed it)

15.) Click Done.

16.) If you wanna change the icon for an all day appointment or something just look for it in the list. You just have to change the corresponding 4-digit number to whatever main icon you want.

17.) Whooo! If you wanna change the active, inactive, and main icons for the other panels just go back to Step 6, and choose another panel.

18.) If you wanna use Chome Config to change the icons of the Panels you have made, here is a very helpful thread, which includes picture and video tutorials!

I hope this helped, and sorry if this was too long and over detailed.