yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] pupakota:
Hi, quick question:

how can i make area taken by

xxxxx_menuDownArrowBackground.png

and

xxxxx__menuUpArrowBackground.png

narrower, than default?

i mean, i have thin, 6px height strip containing very small arrows represented by

xxxxx_menuUpArrow.png

and

xxxxx_menuUpArrowDisabled.png

i am unable to find reg entry for squeezing arrowbkg's, can someone lead the way?

otherwise, is there method for arrowbkg+arrows complete removal(just menu + eventual touch scroll)?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] sixhundrednine:
I'm trying to edit the colour of the highlighted area in the image below, using ThemeGenCE but in vain. Help will be appreciated.

My system:

Windows Mobile 6.5

Evolution 2.0 ROM

HTC Touch Viva
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
Another theme, work in progress.

Does anyone knows which of the zeros in -HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\MultiColorTheme\ThemeColors is responsible for white text in taskbar and softkeybar?

There is so many number...;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
Sweet!! that looks amazing
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] htctoucher:
here twolf

uploaded from my phone so we will see if it works ;)

hmm seems to have worked!

only issue is the right side when pressed is cut off
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] greatbal:
Nice work. Hope ypoou finish it soon. And yes there are so many numbers we can play around with in the key Themecolors. But I haven't discovered what they're for except highlightcolor color. I'll play around with the numbers on my spare time and post my discoveries here...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
I think there's no way to change the taskbar font color via .tsk registry. There's no ffffff (white) there, so I'm sharing my theme now, its VGA.

Enjoy:D

btw. @greatbal how about updating first post with the list of themes? So we make one thread for all 6.5 themes.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
Hi,

I have a different idea, how about using this thread for developing and hacking these new themes (since it is in the development and hacking section).

and I will donate my WM6.5 Themes thread for the completed versions? THIS THREAD

this way, problems can be discussed and ironed out on this thread, and the catalogue of skins, instructions etc etc are all kept separately with no mess.

What do you think?

MG
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
No bad not bad at all, perfect idea :D I go with you :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
Thanks, it just seems more sensible that questions and problems are kept in one please and the catalogue it kept somewhere nice n tidy!!!

since the thread i started is only for complete themes and any graphics that go with them i dont mind putting that one up for use!

I hope others agree!

Thanks again

MG
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
Great idea, lets do it;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] SimpTheChimp:
Shadowline: Does this need to first be renamed to a .tsk? And if so, I am not seeing the wallpaper you have displayed (the one with the patterns on it) - all I get is a blue background.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] lordshadowz:
Daddy Like.... lol Thank you for this VERY much.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
This is totally insane!!!! I've been looking for a way to edit those TSKs for 6.5!!! Great work :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xPreSiDenT:
great work guys! I finally decided to get up n do something too so heres a preview of my first contribution to these forums :P a work in progress...

Anyone know why menuUpArrow doesnt appear in the middle?(the first screen)

Its the same with other themes too.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
thats SWEET!!

whens it out?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] htctoucher:
anyone using qvga who want 4 columns with smaller icons i fixed my previous post so all is working now..

*fixed selection on the rightmost icons so it is no longer cut off

*fit the most text possible by moving them into two lines (look at total commander for example)

thanks twolf for starting this off!! :D

enjoy!

htctoucher
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hossann:
Can all this themes work for WM6? Or need WM6.5 to work?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hossann:
greatbal......can share the image file of the ferrari? Thanks.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
You need WM6.5 or else you'll only see there wallpaper on WM6 :D

Here are some themes i compiled up :D else they arent totally my creation, i just brought them together ;)

Windows Default Black

Colourfull
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kkae70:
How can I setting to open music with Audiomanager.?

I don't like WMP.

>>>>>>>

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
well you can't, its hardcoded in app.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
these themes are looking sweet, but can the completed ones be posted on the completed theme thread HERE

or even link to them on the thread so i can collect them up and add them to the first post?

Thanks guys!!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] skauk:
Sort of off topic but

How do you get the weather shown on the front screen on wm6.5 ? So it appears on the scrolling main menu?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=481379
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] skauk:
Doesnt work on mine

I cannnot get it to work on mine I install the Weather plugin but all I get is a run setup but I cannot see where to set it up? I dont have a setup option on my right softkey
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
that key doesnt work!!

you need to go to the panel called launcher, the softkey will change to setup and you press the actual launcher panel to update weather
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rling:
Anyway to add a scrollbar to the start page?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alhuang69:
Wow, it is a beautiful theme, thanks a lot.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Eh... It depends on the build you're running. Themes work best on the newer builds (21202 and 21500).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
I don't think that would be very useful. At least from Microsoft's standpoint. They aren't letting you build your own 'tabs' so that leaves you with a minuscule amount screwing the need for a scrollbar.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] twolf:
Thanks for that beautiful theme. :)

I've been trying to port it to QVGA with some sucess...

I resized all the images to half size and converted almost all regkey values to half (still doing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Menu, its a lot of keys).

Still, the best I can come up with is this:

The arrows on the menu, as you can see, are too big, even with the images resized to half its original size.

Also, I changed the wallpaper a little to be able to see the top and bottom text (3rd image).

I atached the wallpapers changed to VGA and QVGA, and the current QVGA CAB, but it still has arrows menu bug.

Could you point me in the right direcction? :(
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] im1badazchick:
Thanks twolf! i actually like it even though you think it's off because of th ebig arrows but i think it makes it even more finger friendly...i LOVE it:D..i can press the arrows with my fingers or thumbs because they are so big:p..not my fingers..the arrows lol
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
Good job resizing!

For the bug, you probably didn't change the reg value for MenuUpArrowBackground in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Menu

try to play with height... I'm not sure this will work, but you can try:)

Edit: Oh you did changed the values, I didn't see that:p

Well then, let me think..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Try using your resized images with the basis of the CAB in the second post as that theme is QVGA. Might maybe work :) lol
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] twolf:
lol...nop, that the one that i didnt changed yet... almost 50 keys....

Thanks, at least now I know Im on the right path. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Yeah I've been working on a theme all day today and it wouldn't run until I used the VGA tsk (I'm VGA) since I was using the original QVGA base. My problem now is that I was a lazy!#@ and used QVGA images on a VGA theme. Doh!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] TheDude1120:
still waiting on this one....
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Stylez Ray.:
Now can somebody tell me how to change the icons in 6.5 (for example in the screen above) and does someone have links to good ones?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Use this tool :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
OK here's mine. You can see where I got the idea from ;). This would make for a great Sprint theme (attached wallpaper).

VGA.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
got a screenshot?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Sorry. SPB Screenshot is being an A#@ and won't install. Can you try the theme out and send me a screenshot so I can attach it to the post?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
It's all in the registry!

play with HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start

you can find all the start menu items with icons in there
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Woah! There's something I didn't know :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
Theres always something new;)

Find mxipinit_startmenu_001.provxml in your windows folder, add and change whatever you like and then import provxml with AdvanceConfig.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
What does it do?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ibrythill:
it's a Chome provxml file with all the HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start keys and values.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Ooh... Fun. Me likey. Thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kwill:
ive tried a few themes out (glass, colorful, and blue black) and each time theyve got rid of the 6.5 menus and caused my text such as in file explorer to get small. also, it smashes the text together. ive installed as cab and changed extension to .tsk. im sure the themes said VGA. any ideas why and im on 21500 build. i can reapply the default themes and everything goes back to normal except a few of the pop up message boxes. is there anywhere the messagebox pop up values can be edited?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] twolf:
nop... just changed all the remaining keys and nothing...

Good tip, will try that too. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] twolf:
I posted this in other threads, but since your talking about icons:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xPreSiDenT:
BlackMagic QVGA

Hey guys heres my theme, my first skin for anything ever, so if you see anything that doesnt look right do say so. The theme is based on SonnarUI for pointuihome2, and uses the same background. Any complaints and suggestions are welcome so I might improve it.

There were some problems, which I was hoping some more experienced users could help me with. Thanks to greatbal for his little guide on the first post and I also based the tsk on his ferrari tsk. But the tsk I generated with themegence saved color values quite differently. I still copied them over but they dont work. How can the values be changed?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Stylez Ray.:
I already saw those icons and that's why I asked. This is a swf file, so I guess I have to export every single icon and change it by myself in WiMo?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xPreSiDenT:
WM6.5 Themes

Hey guys, if youre running WM6.5(21xxx), you can change your theme to pretty much anything(if you have it made). So heres a link to the new themes thread... and my new theme :P
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] leoiden:
hey rom cookers and chefs how about sharing some oem themes from the wm6.5?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] twolf:
Yes, if I only had gave them as pngs, theme makers couldnt change them, this way they can change colors, size, shadows, etc etc...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] sbp:
HI - really nice progress.

Do you think it is possible to have your appointments (from the calendar) to be present on the first page all the time (On the Today screen)?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Stylez Ray.:
Ah ok thx twolf. Quality has priority, it isn't a problem at all to export the icons myself.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ahmedfikry:
can someone mark which ones are VGA & which are QVGA because some themes mess up my phone

better if we have them all in 2 cab files each one vga & one qvga...

thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kwill:
i experienced the same. it all seems restored when i switch back to one of the default themes. but, some of my popup menus seem to be messed up on size. is there anyway to get it back to default? and this was on the glass and black, blue themes which say VGA.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Yeah I labeled mine and so do most people. It's a totally different deal when developing a VGA vs a QVGA theme because the registry settings needed are totally different. It IS easily possible however to put the images for VGA themes into a QVGA tsk and it would run perfectly because the OS would auto resize the images.

What I would like to see happen would be to have a TSK (aka CAB) that would load an EXE that would allow you to select the theme you wanted and just load the images into the registry (NO dimensions). The images would be put into folders like the way most people are currently storing them.

If we did it that way though, everybody could just build VGA themes that would work for QVGA screens too. Anybody up to a challenge? :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Okay. After much work (kinda) I have created my base themes for VGA and QVGA separately. WQVGA themes will be made using the QVGA template and WVGA themes will be built with the VGA template.

And here's the resolutions for VGA images:

listViewSelector.png 474x72

menuBorder.png 118x101

menuDownArrowBackground.png 289x67

menuSelector.png 172x72

menuUpArrow.png 34x30

menuUpArrowBackground.png 289x67

menuUpArrowDisabled.png 34x30

msgboxBorder.png 104x101

msgboxTitle.png 389x46

scrollbarThumb.png 26x70

scrollbarTrack.png 26x120

scrollbarUpArrowButton.png 26x40

scrollbarUpArrowButtonSelected.png 26x40

sipHighlight.png 120x52

softkeybar.png 480x52

softkeyHighlight.png 180x52

TabCurveH.png 68x46

TabCurveEdgeHShadow.png 68x46

taskbar.png 480x52

taskbarHighlight.png 120x52

toastBorder.png 472x230 (Somebody please tell me what the hell this IS!!!!)

UpDownArrowPushed.png 54x44

UpDownArrowPushedRight.png 54x44

If I have any of these wrong, PM me and I'll change it. Don't clutter clutter this thread with unneeded crap!

Instructions on how to build a theme:

1. Name your theme (use your name instead of the *)

2. Make your images according to the guidelines set. If you don't know what each image does, unpack some of the original shipped themes to get some ideas.

3. Make the TSK. Use WinCECabManager to edit my base for VGA (and then for QVGA) so that wherever a key says "REPLACEWITHNAME" in the Registry section, put in *. Name the TSK "* VGA.tsk" for VGA and "* QVGA.tsk" for QVGA

4. Add wallpapers. This is where you have to make separate images for VGA and QVGA. You need stwater_640_480.jpg, stwater_480_640.jpg, stwater_800_480.jpg, stwater_480_800.jpg for your VGA tsk and stwater_320_240.jpg, stwater_240_320.jpg, stwater_400_240.jpg, and stwater_240_400.jpg for your QVGA tsk. Make each image at the resolution given in its filename. Just drag and drop your files (these will be the backgrounds) into the Files section of each of your TSKs and put them in the Windows folder and then select Hard Code Path.

5. Save your TSKs and create a new CAB. This will be your theme installer.

6. Drag and drop all of your TSKs' theme elements and the TSKs themselves into the files section and put all of the files in /My Documents/Themes/*/ and select Hard Code Path.

7. Test your theme by installing it. Select your theme in the Today settings and check that all of your theme elements are displayed. If some aren't, make sure you have everything in the right path and at the right resolution (also check filename!). If you had to edit something, just recompile your theme and test again.

8. If your theme works, share it! :D We all love a new theme in our midst ;) Make sure you take some screenshots (preferably of the Home Screen and the Dialer with the right soft-key pressed) with SPB Screenshot. Then add your screenshots to the PSD template that is provided in the first post of this thread. You can also make your own template if you aren't as lazy as some people *cough* :D.

Happy theming!!!!!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ahmedfikry:
Hi Jonnrb

thanks for the building base theme

& dimensions

can you please post some instructions about how to pack images into a theme cab?

i will be happy to redo all the posted themes with your base theme to make them all work on VGA & QVGA

i just need detailed step by step info about how to pack into a theme cab

thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
A 'theme' cab is simply a .CAB renamed to .TSK. My instructions aren't 'there' but they're simply in-between the lines (I added this to my (now) mega-post):

1. Name your theme (use your name instead of the *)

2. Make your images according to the guidelines set. If you don't know what each image does, unpack some of the original shipped themes to get some ideas.

3. Make the TSK. Use WinCECabManager to edit my base theme so that wherever a key says "REPLACEWITHNAME" in the Registry section, put in *.

4. Add wallpapers. This is where you have to make separate files for VGA and QVGA. You need stwater_640_480.jpg, stwater_480_640.jpg, stwater_320_240.jpg, and stwater_640_480.jpg each at the resolutions given. Just drag and drop your files (these will be the backgrounds) into the Files section of your TSK and put them in the Windows folder and select Hard Code Path.

5. Save your TSK and create a new CAB. This will be your theme installer.

6. Drag and drop all of your TSK theme elements and the TSK itself into the files section and put all of the files in /My Documents/Themes/*/ and select Hard Code Path.

7. Test your theme by installing it. Select your theme in the Today settings and check that all of your theme elements are displayed. If some aren't, make sure you have everything in the right path and at the right resolution (also check filename!). If you had to edit something, just recompile your theme and test again.

8. If your theme works, share it! :D We all love a new theme in our midst ;) Make sure you take some screenshots (preferably of the Home Screen and the Dialer with the right soft-key pressed) with SPB Screenshot. Then add your screenshots to the PSD template that is provided in the first post of this thread.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ryomahino:
Audio manager plugin for titanium...

Maybe some of you guys can help with this, its a cab with extracts of cpr for have audiomanager plugin in titanium but need to fix the cpr and add to titanium cpr:

Zip File an this is the Thread
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xPreSiDenT:
Nice man thanks for the base cab... but I'd like to add that I dont think these sizes have to be exactly like this as I changed some sizes while experimenting and didnt get negative results. So you know, not to limit experimentation, but use the resolutions as general guidelines. They matter more on some elements and less on others. Also to note are the padding settings etc in the tsk which go along with these sizes.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
My point is that if you already have a QVGA theme active, a theme built with my base theme will not modify the padding. That's the whole point of me building this base. Yeah I noticed that the sizes don't matter too. That's another reason why I took them out. It creates less clutter in the registry and make it easier for creating new themes.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mike21pr:
nice thread. how about a full tutorial on the first post with all the info updated to make themes for titanium, scrollbars, menus, tsk., start menu icons/highlight etc. QVGA and VGA?? the reason is that everybody can have all the tools needed in one place without having to hunt down info in multiple pages of posts or threads, so we can totally transform the 6.5 UI and have more designers jump to skinning 6.5 and all the possibilities
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
It's a dev thread. If you want to understand what to do, read through it. Of course it would be nice if someone put my tut on the first page... sigh... Also: look at my post. It has a full tutorial on how to make full TSK themes for all resolutions.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 4D3:
Is this theme finished? I have added it to the first post on the THEMES THREAD

Is this theme finished? I have added it to the first post on the THEMES THREAD

Is this theme finished? I have added it to the first post on the THEMES THREAD
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
Sneak preview of my upcoming theme "Ubuntu"
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
This looks great! If you need any help with anything PM me :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
GR8 my fav. Ubuntu Wallpaper ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
I know. This is when they didn't just do a gradient for a background lol.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
yes, ur right :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jonnrb:
Okay. I'm going to leave Gone CRAZY at it's current place and begin work on a Windows Mobile 7 theme called ".5 More". It will include a bronzeres and today theme just like my previous theme. It will be based on the leaked images found on Engadget. Feedback anyone?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rpereira:
That would be cool, the only tricky part i see is when making the slider bar for titanium, if you make it with that really cute bright blue glassy look it'll cover the text when sliding to choose between the different options in the home screen. you'd have to literally put a hole in the center with feather effect or something.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] formula84:
If that is what WM7 is going to look like there are going to be alo of hapy wm users. I look forward to your theme
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] greatbal:
i posted your tutorials on the first post. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ahdeshpande:
Wallpapers

Collection of wallpapers is available on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=503823 for preparing Themes.

Ash