yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] GXnext:
I like this ALOT! finally a VGA 6.5 cab! THANK YOU!

I changed the wallpaper, but I love it
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mallman:
ok first of all special thanks to rpereira!! thanks for taking the time to give me a tutorial. I still have lot of learning to do but here is what i have managed to do. Obviously I am jsut modding rpereira's crimson darkness as my learning base. THis is by no means how I want it to look lol, but it is giving me a great playground. once finished i hope to have an iphone'ish theme constructed.

still havent figured out hot to get some icons on the fave people add on and the titanium weather add on but i will get there (any advice woudl be appreciated)

glad to be part of the skinning crew ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
looking good! i like how symmetrical it looks with the iphone icons. I would suggest for the slider bar something resembling the iphone dock.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Sorry lol. I'm being a bit too serious at the moment cuz I'm thinking like a ROM chef :D.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
can i get some fries with my rom please?:p
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] :
sure, they should spam and make BIG sigs lol!

hm..

maybe "Artists" should use png transparencies properly...

i've seen ONE theme with proper png use, so far, here.

feel free to send me a bomb...

moderators may remove my comment, if it's problem,btw.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dayze0:
hi guys - firstly excellent work - great skins. id love to get into skinning - i dont really understand it all , but im trying - ive started with titanium as a qvga base and im trying to create a working cab file with the transparent bar reshaped and recolored with different icons - problem im having is how to set the transparently level of the bar (other than photoshop edits) and a major problem of digitally signing files ect .

As ive mentioned , i used Titanium as base - using WinCE Cab Mgr to open cab and PE Explorer to edit bronzer.dll (RC Folder 3000 ect)(replace) transparent bar - ive then repacked to cab with Win CE - and placed on phone - when installing i get error message saying

" Installation was unsuccessful.The program or setting cannot be installed because it is not digitally signed with a trusted certificate"

programs im using

WinCE Cab Mgr

PE Explorer

is there any guides on how to do this (recolour/cab pack/digitally sign)

or a thorough

guide on how to build a theme from scratch ??

as usual any help or guidance from the ' Masters ' is massivley appreciated
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
what would you consider proper png use? I'm not aware of any guidelines for proper usage anywhere. The reason they're png's is to further expand the possibilities by allowing you to place images with transparent backgrounds on to of each other. I'd love to see some of your themes.

Edit: I do consider your comment rather offensive, given the countless hours of work I've put on creating themes and trying to make each one better than the last.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] :
ok, i'd better leave that topic...

just make consolidated info for people that will use m$ ideas, dudes. no info here, so far, imo.

sry for bothering you, good luck.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
If you don't like titanium then post your theme alternatives for WM 6.5, just don't come here discouraging people as if you were better than anyone, especially if you've got nothing to show but those "fingernail friendly" themes. this is as far I go with replying to your nonsense .
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] :
sure. i stopped to think bout this **** after that thread, especially. i just wanted to show working png transparencies showing these links, ffs.k?

as author said:

not possible, as we can see...

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gl.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] showaco:
For titaniumweather and atcontacts, they use the htc panel base. With these, you will need to add the icon to cpr file and then add it to the registry as HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome\TitaniumWeather\CondensedPage\*name you give to icon image in cpr* and HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome\ATContacts\CondensedPage\*your name from cpr*.

I guess I fail to see how those png are used differently, maybe it can't be seen by the eye.:p

For someone in a htc microsoft based web site, you sure don't like them.

C'ya later poor boy, don't let the door hit you on the way out:D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
Nea wm7 theme attempt

Don't know why, but I'm still making wm7 themes.. I feel like in the black hole or something, need to do something else:P

btw new theme preview:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
i hear ya brother, but thanks to your WM 7 I've learned tons of things from it. I think keeping the Titanium customizations to a safe minimum is the way to go for me for now, otherwise I'll never leave the cycle of fixes to item alignments and so on. at least not until we get an emulator.

keep up the good work dude, this looks great! I tried to customize the bottom bar but the problem is when you go landscape it phucs up.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
But OMG! Improper PNG usage!!! :eek: lol :p:D

EDIT: Lmao when I just checked the thread!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
Yeah I know what you mean. I'm geting tired of all those resolutions, bugs and fixes... but hey I asked for it;)

Thanks for good words! I'm glad you learned something, I was learning too:D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] deepthroat:
thanks for you guys, i mean it ! meanwhile I'm going back to school on making proper PNGs lol ...:D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Yeah me too. Any help on the subject nothin? :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mallman:
ok just wanted to share my progress and get your thoughts. I call it Tiphone (titanium iphone :) ) the iphone dock slider is much mroe visable on my screen though, not sure why it doesnt show well on here

thanks for your help guys
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dayze0:
any chance of guidance guys - gotta go to afgan soon - need sumthin to keep me occupied :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Before you package the bronzeres, you need to sign it with the tool attached.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dayze0:
thx man -:D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
No problem. Don't want to see you go bored in afgan :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
this is looking pretty sweet! I would add a bit more drama to the slider bar though, you know, to make it stand out, that's probably one of the most important parts of the whole skinning, people love pretty sliders.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mallman:
i hear ya, was trying to toss something together to build on ;) working on it now. I am about to shoot you one fina question via PM and thanks for al lof your help
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] wpy:
Hoping for a VGA version for this please.... thank you.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Di-Ma-Z:
)

My little contribution...qvga only.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kane159:
hey brother can you share your battery icon for me?

phcanOverbmp.dll

your PPC is WQVGA right??
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
see if this works

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3687143&postcount=369
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gogorob:
hey what's good people... quick question, this is what I came up with so far (1st Attempt) anyway i'm trying to package the bronser.dll file into a cab using WinCE.. Everytime I package the theme with bronser dll included and install to memory the cab file say's it's not digitally signed.. I've tried to install sdkcert cab before installing the theme to no avail.. The only reason the images and scroll color is diffferent because i manually copied over my modified bronser.dll directly to the phone and not via cab... can anyone help me out??? Much Appreciation

Some shots
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kookysan:
Menu Patch for WM 6.5 theme

Hello friends, I'm using the WM 6.5 Designer themes on my HTC Touch running a WM 6.5 ROM. I've tried to use the menu patch as outlined in the first post on this thread, but am still getting WM 6.1 style menus.

Any idea how to resolve this? :confused:

Many thanks in advance!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
can i get a few people to try my theme that is attached to this post,

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3687143&postcount=369

and let me know which version you tried and if everything worked please? i had an issue with the .tsk file that im 99.9% sure is fixed now, just need a few volunteers to try it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
lol that's pretty ganja man! all you have to do is use this http://rapidshare.com/files/220659743/Sign.zip and sign you .dll before importing it into your .cab and you should be good to go.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Sully9663:
The TSk didn't install correctly. Reverted back to previous version and it did.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
what device and what resolution? what didnt work for you specifically please?

EDIT: new version in the link from my last post if you would like to try it out again.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Are you using my base CABs for this theme? They have been tested and are told to work. Make sure your file names match to those given in the base theme and are using the standard \My Documents\Themes\* directory for your images and TSKs.

Also I greatly admire the fact that you removed the link from your post in the Themes thread. It takes quite a bit to make a designer revoke some of their work.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gogorob:
appreciate that man ... it worked out great
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
yeah im using your base themes so not sure what else i can try for the people its not working for. anyway you can take a look at it?

as far as MG thread goes, i understand. there was a problem that kept it from working for everyone and he wants his thread for 100% complete themes
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
Could i have some graphics for Chome/Titanium?? e.g password lock buttons becasue i dont like these oval like ones :o i was thinking abt something like a rectangle with rounded edges :D THNX
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jelmer-p:
can anybody post the original stock wm. 6.5 start menu icons?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] PREMOLIKES:
@all

I want to make the semi transparent task bar(or title bar whatever) at the top and at bottom to be more transparent, plz do tell me if there is any cpr to be edited or registry edit.?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\TaskBar\TaskBarThemeImage

and

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\SoftKeyBar\SoftKeyBarThemeImage

these go in the .tsk, use mines if you'd like (see attached).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Sully9663:
I am using the VGA version. Installed the new version, the .tsk is fine on this one. However, the slider icons are the stock titanium ones.

Just to be safe I un-installed the old one, disabled titanium and installed the new one. But it still has the default icons.

BTW, theme rocks.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
got the slider from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=502902 thanks go to rpereira for it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] PREMOLIKES:
Thank u rpereira

Thanks for the png.if I want to change the opacity , then changing the png is the only work out?

Also plz tell me how to increase the brightness in start menu wallpaper( windows background image) .U know wallpapers are brighter in titanium .Iam using qgva.

Many thanks.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
I've attached a rar with the png's. These are as transparent as you can get, without it looking crappy. You may import them in adobe fireworks or photoshop and play around with the opacity.

The brightness should also be manipulated using a graphics editing software such as the ones mentioned above.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
Fyi a couple of findings while trying to innovate:

-You can't use animated .gifs (they will only show the first frame once rendered by IE (Titanium)

-Can't use includes for the xml's (cpr's) it'll just crash attempting to render.

-Only use the Left property if you need to. If you're feeling lazy just remove it and use the HorizontalAlignment="Center" (or Left or Right for that matter), that will save you the pain in the ass of manually trying to align text horizontally, same goes for the VerticalAlignment="Top" (or Center or bottom).

happy skinning :eek:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] PREMOLIKES:
Thanks a lot, I have somehow manage to get ur png.

What I actually wanna know is better explain by the two pic below, one is in titanium and d other in start menu.The difference is in the brightness of this image a cat in here, I have wanted the cat to glow more in start menu.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bnm7bnm:
please can someone share qvga wm6.5 theme where background is black for MS3 to be black but one with new graphics in file explorer & notifications ect.

tried to make myself but the mortscript tells me my image not in correct resolution but it is correct qvga 16bit bmp (did w/gimp)...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
try this out,
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bnm7bnm:
Thanks man but this theme has "bugs" - not all images aligned correctly...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
maaaaybe if your more specific in you requests and problem reports you can get help. what device is this for? and what specifically is the issue with the theme posted? pics would help as im not a mind reader.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] danw1028:
Does anyone have or know of a green (like wm6_1.tsk) theme? Ive searched for two weeks any came up empty.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bnm7bnm:
I have polaris - qvga

in the theme you gave its black like i wanted but in explorer the new menus (like the FingerMenu for wm6.1) the picture of button pressed not aligned evenly on both sides and the notifications (when you press in taskbar the reception for example) looks like old wm6.1

What i need is wm6.5 theme that colored like default wm6.5 classic blue but with no background and with black base color.

Thanx for help!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kookysan:
WM 6.5 Menus

Folks, any help on this is really appreciated! :confused:

Thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
which menu patch are you referring to? I wen't through the first post but did,t see any.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] m.carroll:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3651697 PureBlack2 All Resolutions
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kookysan:
Hey, thanks for your reply! I'm referring to the part where in the first post of this thread, it is mentioned to use Mystic_Systems_Enable_WM_6.5_Menus.cab in case the menus aren't appearing in WM6.5 style for the designer themes (see under heading ~~~WM6.5 Menu SYstems~~~~ in that post.

I installed that cab but to no effect! :confused:

Thanks again for your help on this.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] watzone69:
Is there a way to set different backgrounds for the lock screen, home screen and the start screen? I have searched through here and didn't see anything.

EDIT: OK, I found start menu and today screen but I can't find a way to set a different lock screen. I tried looking in the SYS folder of my kitchen and found some .cpr files in the LockscreenNonEA folder. These control some images (buttons, slider, animated arrows, etc) but I didn't see any background info.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] scrambler7:
can the start menu highlight be repositioned? i've seen where it will cover the entire icon, like in matt's fuzeberry theme, but i can't seem to get it on mine. i attached a screenshot. i've run searches and can't find that info. i'm guessing it's a regedit, but i'm not too savvy on that side yet. any help would be appreciated.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
Well... use the CPRs for it, i guess its the StartMenu_Global.cpr found in the \Windows Folder :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] scrambler7:
thanks for pointing me in the right direction! the file you need to edit is StartMenu_GridScene.cpr. depending on your device, it may be named differently. for my diamond, the files are StartMenu_GridScene_480x640.cpr (portrait) and StartMenu_GridScene_640x480.cpr (landscape). the entry to edit is:

<Image ID="Selection" Left="0" Top="-30" Width="145" Height="120" Source=".\StartMenu_Selection.png" />

mine defaulted to -30, so i changed it to -15
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] tom108:
ok i just read all the way through this thread. did i miss where the files are located to change the icons that display for each panel? i would like to edit my clock icon.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mallman:
CPR text color codes??

anyone know if the color values in the CPR files (#fffffff and #0000000) have any effect if changed? I am used to using color codes that are 6 characters long not 7 lol. I have changed some to no avail. Did a search for this but didnt see this topic anywhere.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bilbobrian:
I have changed the font colors by changing the hex values.:) Changed from white to gray.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] claus1953:
Look under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/CHome/CClock. The key icon is for the icon on the tab on the right, and the key picture is for the picture on the right (the clock), you can point the string to whatever place you like, and where you have the icons.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] noobified:
After trying out various themes like WM7 and Bliss, but having no success in getting programs, contacts and opera favorites panels to work together properly, I decided to just do my own thing, just the way I want it :) Not as fancy as the themes out there, but works for me.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] magicalan:
can i have the notifications qvga cab? :eek:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] noobified:
I didn't install it. I just edited the CPR files and changed the icons for the notification panel.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] magicalan:
oo ok can you make a .cab? lol i dont know how to do that :(
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
I really like the black menus, i dont suppose you could make just the tsk and menu skin in VGA please?

really nice work!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mallman:
don't sell yourself short. the reason you say it inst fancy is because you look at yours a lot and at others a little :) I think you did a great job and its nice. Welcome to the world of skinning, make some more and watch how much "fancier" they get each time
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] tom108:
Thanx a ton but i do not see a string labeled icon. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Genix9:
I've spent the past few hours trawling threads and pretty much looking all over the place for some guidance on this, and now my brain is mulch :S

Can anyone help with how to set the start menu text color? I need to understand where and how the text color is set for the selected and non-selected items if possible.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] MRFERRARI23:
yea Id like to know the same thing please...it would be nice to have different pics for the screens!!!:D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] scrambler7:
i was creating some of my own themes and am trying to figure out how to change the background to the task manager dropdown menu. somehow i was able to get it to display a gradient, but i'm not sure how. i've been cooking my own roms and changing files, so it may be one of the sys files that i skinned, but i can't seem to figure it out. anyone know what i'm talking about?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] m.carroll:
see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2876866&postcount=36
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] scrambler7:
you da man.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] fusioncoast:
i am using a xda stealth runnin on wm6.5 i have a program memory 51mb and free progeam memory is just 2 mb i cannot run tcpmp player or other applications that use more memory active sync is also always on i am using this rom since some days its been made by Slim li can any one help me on this even if i kill all the programs accept system services the memory is the same
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ElCondor:
I've problems installing theme's on my touch diamond (VGA screen). I followed al the steps exactly, I compared it with other theme's and everything was OK (only difference was that those are QVGA, so the background images are 320x240 & 240x320 etc and mine are 480x640 & 640x480)

What's wrong?

Thanks:)

PS. the ferrari theme is NOT working on my diamond... I think that's because of the background but why isn't my theme working?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mystified:
I just read all the posts trying to find this answer, but I couldnt find it. I was wondering if it was possible to change the font color on the Honeycomb. My background is a light color, and all the fonts in all these themes posted here are white... so I can't see the text.

I don't know if it's possible to change using the Registry editor or if I have to create a theme all together.

Thanks for all your hard work though. The themes that have been posted are amazing.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CraZyLiLbOy:
Here is mine. hope you like it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DomSim:
wow wow wow great work
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mioqiu:
ofcouse we like it.you really did and doing good job.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ai6908:
LightHouse QVGA

My first attempt to make a skin!

Download
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] catnip:
@ CraZyLiLbOy

is there anyway you will release the screen posted it would look incredible on the diamond,its truly fantastic
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hossann:
What app you are using for the icons on the top bar?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CraZyLiLbOy:
no app's..just taskbar icons
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bluntknife:
Lamborghini - Work In Progress

Hi all, thought I'd just share my work in progress of my first wm6.5 theme. In fact, my first theme ever! I've used greatbal's Ferrari theme as a template (thanks greatbal :D)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] koolaid359:
mmm its pretty impressive for a first theme, when should we be expecting a release?