[Touch HD Themes and Apps] maxycy:
How To Customize Your WM6.5 Theme

Thought I put this up first as it will take some time to read prior to my uploading of v3.6 in a short while.

How to Customize Your WM6.5 Theme

First off, this new tab "WM6.5" will only be enabled if you have WM6.5 as your base OS. Otherwise, everything on that page will be disabled.

The question always asked is what's the difference between WM6.1 theme and WM6.5 theme. Lots...but I'll just narrow down only to the portion which affect the look of TF3D. Essentially we are talking about the taskbar and softkeybar. In WM6.1, you can basically change the color scheme either in mono or gradient. Whereas in WM6.5, you can manipulate images. I will not go into details here but if you want further explanations, just PM me.

Let's take a first look at what's working and what's not.

To have a fullscreen wallpaper, you will need to use BG4all layout and 480x800 wallpapers. (tested on jpg and png)

Does not work properly wt default aka high quality wallpapers. There's a 1-2pixels gap between the wallpaper and taskbar.

Does not align in landscape mode.

Default windows wallpaper does not align in Today screen. However, Titanium works perfectly and so does the StartMenu screen.

Here's a pic of the new tab showing what you can change.

1. The combobox labelled "Component" allows you to select changes to both taskbar and softkeybar individually or "both" as in together.

2. The combobox labelled "Change Method" gives you 3 different options of manipulating the bars outlook.

a. Wallpaper - allows full screen wallpaper as if the bars have gone transparent.

b. Solid Color - This will enable the color selection panel and you can change the task bar up to 16million color combination as in the WM6.1.

c. Special Pattern - these are specially created images which gives you a totally different appearance to your bars. I have taken one file from energy ROM plus a couple nice stuff contributed by Millski and myself which I hope you can utilize. These images will superimpose over the existing bar images and creates very nice effects. ;)

3. The 3 checkboxes below are settings which will affect how the deployment is done.

a. Change Windows Wallpaper - this option when checked will also change the windows default wallpaper to the wallpaper that you had selected currently on TF3D.

b. Enable Standard Deployment - checking this box will now automatically convert all bars according to the settings that you have made on this tab when you select your wallpapers from the manila settings tab or deployed from my app.

c. Soft Reset after Convert - since all bars changes will only be activated after a reboot, this option will automatically soft reset after it detected a wallpaper change.

Special Warning - if you have a timer activated on 1 minute and enabling an auto soft reset could result in a continuous auto reboot.

4. The CONVERT button immediately made the changes to the bar settings (you still need a soft reset to activate the changes ) that you had selected without the need to change wallpapers.

5. The RESET button basically reset everything back to its original status.

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Let's do some examples. I presumed most of you would definitely want to go for a full screen wallpaper. To achieve the below outlook, simply do the steps below.

1. "Component" - select BOTH

2. "Change Method" - select WALLPAPER

3. If you also want your Windows default wallpaper to have the same ( also affects your Titanium and Startmenu ), check the "Change Windows Wallpaper" box.

4. If you intend to select your wallpaper from manila settings tab, you can also check "Enable Standard Deployment"

5. Check the "Soft Reset after COnvert" if you want it to auto reset itself after a wallpaper change or leave it and manually soft reset yourself.

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Example 2, let's do a special softkeybar layout. To achieve this, simply follow the below steps.

1. Ensure that you already have full wallpaper screen as above example as these special patterns are basically superimposing.

2. "Component" - select SoftKeyBar or Taskbar ( or both ) depending on what you need.

3. "Change Method" - select Special Pattern

4. "Special Pattern Bar Selection - select whatever patterns that you want but in my case here, I had selected "Black Standard Button.png" in first pic and "Standard Gloss Button.png" for softkey + "White Ring.png" for taskbar in second pic.

4. It is best to first uncheck all the checkboxes and do the conversion on this page as you may want to configure both the taskbar and softkeybar seperately.

5. Soft reset after completion.

More special pattern bar images will come and I also hope that the community can contribute to this as well. :D

A new feature added on v3.61, Alpha Blending. With this new feature, you can now adjust the opacity of the special patterns to be superimpose onto the wallpaper. Below is pic of alpha set to 100. Max. is 255 ( Solid ) and Min. is 0 ( Full transparency ).

One small little bonus; the TaskbarHighlight and TaskbarText color can also be changed from the "COLOR" tab intended for WM6.1.

Ok. That's it. Hope you have fun playing around wt this pretty soon. ;)