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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] gewoonjan:
haha allright:D

Good luck with it!;)

really looking forward to try it out; I haven't been quite so excited in a while over a theme:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] the sandman89:
This looks awesome I can wait til everything is uploaded! Will there eventually be a cab file that will install everything at once?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
No, there is so much new stuff here that because of the way CHT 'registers' widgets and links during the install/soft reset process this isn't possible. Once you have all of the widgets installed then yes most of the 'theme' could be installed by cab but not at present. I am also hoping BHS Interceptor might be on hand to help me create a CHTS folder to enable a theme switch in this way...

Like I said in the first post it will take a bit of time to install everything and get it set up but you only have to do all of this once, and then any subsequent themes using the new widgets and links should be easy to switch.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] the sandman89:
Ok cool I understand. I'm currently using your Elegancia theme and i love it! Patiently awaiting for this one to be fully released so I can get started setting it up! :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Nordpolcamper:
Already started using the Background widget set. Works flawless and is very easy editable ;)

The installation only took 5 minutes ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
All Tutorials and Attachments now online

Right, that's it! Everything is now uploaded and all tutorials are complete. It has taken nearly as long to compile this thread as it did to create the theme! I'm off for a lie down now...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] MrBeOTP2:
bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo =D>
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] s-droid:
Amazing Work
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] drdingdong:
Pure Genius

Simply an outstanding piece of work! And I appreciate the effort put in to create this theme and give a detailed explanation to us all:):):)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] drdingdong:
2G/3G Toggle

How did you get the 2G/3G toggle?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
it is in alpha testing with the chts group.

and dunc, fantastic work. cannot wait to start putting this together. really innovative stuff. congrats on your hard work!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] poyensa:
Hi Dunc, you have done a huge amount of work and the results are impressive!!! Congratulations & thanks a lot for sharing with all of us. I am dying to have my HD2 back ....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Steve0007:
Duncan, maybe you should post your CHT settings.cht in order for the users to get all the reg settings done quickly just by importing the cht file thru CHT Editor:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] torse1:
Fantastic!!!!

Fantastic work you have done!!!! May I ask where I can find your taskbar?:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Will do tomorrow :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Kameirus:
cant wait to put this on my new hd2 which i should have by monday wooohooo
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jfrm:
Absolutely amazing...

Even knowing how flexible CHT is, it's dificult to understand this grade of customization...

Cookie create a monster and you are pushing it out of limits...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] cromio:
I never got this, but... using CHTS isn't it possible to save an extended (or standard) layout and then post the saved folder with all the items? that way we could paste the folder in our _CHTSchedular directory and simply aply it as a new layout!

is this not possible?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Yes, theoretically. However you would still have to follow all of the install instructions for the new widgets and links, and for the script update for the BL Weather Widget, etc so they are installed correctly before you could then apply a theme switch with CHTS. I am also waiting for BHS Interceptor to let me know if any of the CHTS xml's would need updated to include any of the new elements or if that update is done automatically when the widgets are installed. Finally I'd have to provide my CHT Settings xml so you could import those settings too, and you'd still have to use JWMD or CSMI to change the icons to the theme ones.

So in short, for a more straightforward theme no problem, for BLUE SK-i a bit more involved. We are working on it though...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] :
Thanks for such tremendous work! :)

I already have had time to change something, and have made such mods Friends Background :rolleyes:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] xXJohnXx:
Now there's a reason for flashing 6.5 again ;)

Really fantastic work Dunc.

Greetz.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] cajunflavoredbob:
I'm not allowed enough thanks per day for your work on this. This is completely beautiful and out of the box thinking. I certainly hope more devs can put out this level of quality. I hope one of the XDA writers sees this and makes a post on the portal about it. :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ezzie:
wow. Just wow........:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] amc1274:
I am speechless! WOW! OMG! and all the others cannot express how impressed I am.

Guys like you, Co0kie and all the other artists/themers/developers (way to many to recall or mention) that make customizing WinMo 6.5.x so limitless I will never switch to Android or WP7 and find it so hard to understand why so many are jumping on the bandwagons.

You guys are all amazing and the reason why I love this forum and why my GF hates my HD2 :D . THANK YOU!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
dunc,

making my way through it and even early on i am loving it - the sidebar is just genius!

question about uninstalling the widgets in slots 0-8. one of them for me is RSS Reader. in the past uninstalling this has rendered it basically corrupt and necessitating a hard reset to get it to work again. is there a way to move its slot without uninstalling it? or have you read anything to make this go smoother? not averse to a hard rest, but would like to avoid if possible. thanks once again and fantastic stuff.

cheers.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] miller710:
Dunc,

This looks amazing. I just wish I had seen it sooner, I would have included it in the website I designed for my college class. Wonderful work brother. Almost makes me want to flash back to WM6.5
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Hi James, give this a try - disable Sense and then use your task manager to close/kill the rss hub process. Then uninstall and soft reset. Kill the rss hub again and then reinstall. Finally soft reset again and restart Sense. This worked for me, so worth a try.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] krzyzag:
Awesome theme and fantactic work. Absolutely amazed with new look of my HD2 :)

Thank you for this and for great tutorial.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] robinjb:
thank you

great, fabulous, wonderful, amazing job!!! i just finished adding this to my hd2 and i am so happy right now. my hd2 is complete!!!! thank you for your brilliant, creative work and thorough tutorial. :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
thanks, dunc. unfortunately it did not take. so upgraded the ol' rom and things are going well. always a great excuse to get a new rom!

very excited to use this as my base for themes. making it transferable is preferable. questions about that - what do you think the best way to save all of this for future rom upgrades? use all this as my base? use a full sense save in chts?

cheers and have a lovely weekend!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ForgetfulGuru:
Thanks

You are an inspiration to us all.

I am donwloading piece by piece and adapting some of the elements to suite my NRG GTX.

As said by others the page links are totally out of the box, well done man.

What's next?

Voice command that really works, nural interface, inner-ear transceivers.

Only now in middle age do I wish I had wached "Tommorow's World" a little closer, this wold have been on it. :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
My friend, from one middle aged Scotsman to another - if this had appeared on Tomorrows World we both know nothing would ever have come of it :D

Some sort of neural interface, hmm - remember Firefox? (You...must...think...in...Scottish...!!!!)

muahahahahahaha!

Dunc
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] colossus_r:
Wowww....

This is what i call ...a new and fresh idea...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done m8...well done....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
wow...the more i play the more i like it. really organizes everything well.

Couple of questions if you don't mind:

1- What specific font did you use for the sidebar icons and background widgets? Am making some others and would like to stay consistent.

2- My background files with text ("Friends", "Agenda", etc.) have fuzzy lettering; not crisp like what your picture shows. Stays there with size change. Did you do anything to make it crisp? (I do understand how to change the file's image, but like the font and would keep it for now. Just want it crisp!)

again, thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] m0nkeyman:
Dunc I've got a little problem lol but apart from that for some reason my side notification for mail keeps vanishing When I soft reset my phone.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Yes, I occasionally get this too. I think it may be something to do with how many freelinks are used (although I'm pretty sure that I found a limit of 100 defined in one of the core CHT scripts). All you need to do is enter Edit Mode from the popup menu and they'll reappear.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] azaberl:
@ Dunc001

I installed your MinimalWeather widget, but I get a white square over the temperature... Any suggestions?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Extract the attached zip, copy the manila file to \Windows on your phone and overwrite, restart Sense and let me know if it cures the problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] azaberl:
That fixed the problem, thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
dunc...not to bother ya, but wondering if you could address the following:

thanks again for all your work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Hi James, the sidebar icons and softkeys are Gill Sans (you have a PM...) and I 'm pretty sure the font I used on the backgrounds is Sveningsson which you can download for free from dafont (there's a direct link to this in the first post). Hope that helps.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] :
Help with Image Editing?

Hello All,

As I am very unadequate at editing graphics(and do not have Photo Shop), I was hoping that someone would help me with some mods to Dunc's wonderful work? Here is what I am looking for:

1.)Change the Bottom Dock Square Colors(Bottom Row Blue like the middle one, Top row Black)

2.)Change the Page 5 Link to:WIDGETS

3.)Make Matching Toggle Switches for Data and Vibrate

4.)Change the LOCK Softkey to Facebook(FB) and make it link to my facebook tab(if possible)

Thanks for anything that anyone can do.

Thanks,

David:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
David, ask and you shall receive my friend :cool:

Right click on the four thumbnail images below and 'Save Image'. Copy the four pngs to \Windows on you device. Download and unzip the manila file for the softkey dock and again, copy/overwrite the file to \Windows. For the Facebook softkey you need to have a registry editor (because you can't enter the necessary info in CHTE to do this). If you are familiar with registry editing then you need to go to HKCU>Software>HTC>Manila and scroll down until you find entries that look like 'CHT.Softkeys.KeyCustom1.Path' and so on. If you haven't assigned any of the custom softkeys yet then you need to edit the three entries for KeyCustom1. If you have already set one or more then just find the next KeyCustom number with no info against is and enter the following EXACTLY:

Set CHT.Softkeys.KeyCustom1.Path to: \Windows\manila.exe (no quotes or anything else)

Set CHT.Softkeys.KeyCustom1.Args to: --switchtopage Manila://facebook.page (no quotes here either)

Set CHT.Softkeys.KeyCustom1.Icon to : \windows\CHT_softkey_facebook.png

Once you've done this exit reg editor and open CHTEditor. Go to softkeys and set whichever one you want to be Custom1 (or whichever custom key you have edited). Exit CHT and sense will restart and you should now have a working facebook softkey :cool:

Alternatively if you aren't confident using a registry editor then open CHTE>Softkeys and scroll down until you find the Custom Softkeys section and let me know what the first free custom softkey number is, and which softkey position you want the facebook one showing at and I'll make a cab for you to do the registry changes required.

Dunc
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] :
Thanks Dunc,

One small issue, and it is probably something I am missing, but the words, and toggles are not transparent so I get a big white box around them?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] :
Nevermind

I'm an idiot this morning, I got it, looks great.

Thank You Very Much,

David
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Ah yes, forgot XDA converts png to jpeg when you attach an image - sorry! Download and unzip the attached folder then copy/overwrite the four pngs as before. Restart Sense and you should be good to go.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ericv99:
Hey Dunc do you have the default backgrounds for the sms and email widgets/tab?

3EA7E114_manila and 32820EFC_manilla

it would be greatly appreciated.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Here is the SMS widget background. I don't have an original for the email widget (it's actually the same qtc file that comes in a stock ROM for the email tab message background so not included in the CHT cab) and I run Elegancia and it has a skinned version as the original. Search around, I'm sure someone will have it somewhere!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ericv99:
Thank you so much... ive been driving myself screwy modding everything...i think i need to walk away from the computer get some sleep... :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] azaberl:
@ Dunc001

another question (sorry if this has been asked before)...

Do your widgets (battery, minimal weather etc) use system font, or can the font of the widgets be changed seperately from everything else?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
All my widgets use their own font for easy modding :cool: Look in \Windows for duncTextBatteryFont.ttf and duncMinimalWeatherFont.ttf (etc). They both use Sveningsson.ttf from dafont, just renamed.

Just select your own font (make sure it isn't a Bold font or you'll need to also edit the mode9 file) and rename it to whatever the widget font name is. Overwrite and restart Sense. NB - the font must be TTF (TrueType) and not OTF (OpenType) otherwise it won't work and you'll just see system font.

If you need any help just let me know.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Awesome theme man, thank you so much :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Ufff it´s so dificult to install it, i couldn´t do it :(

Sorry for my english
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
That's why it says 'Advanced' in the thread title :eek:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Jeje I know, exist another easy way to install it? I really really like that theme
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
The actual theme bit of it is easy, the problem for you is that before you can use the theme you have to follow all of the instructions to install the background widgets and switch links. These have to be done first because a theme switch folder for CHTS or a theme installation cab cannot do all of the preparatory work for you. So if you want it, you're going to have to work for it (as my parents always told me ;))
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Excuse me Sir, after install CHT Home Page Switch Links and Blue Sk-i sidebar icons i need to install background widget set? Or i need to use first the registry editor before install the background widget set? and follow the instructions you said in the post #3

P.D. Hope you can help me and be patient i don´t know very much english and it´s hard to understand everything, thanks Sir
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
dunc, hope ya don't mind...

you need to follow the instructions in post 3. follow it step-by-step (starting with step 1):

you will need to use a registry editor, uninstall some of your widgets and install the new background widget set. hope this helps.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
I uninstall the only addon i have installed then soft reset, then I installed Poyensa's original background widget and the other 7 addons and soft reset, i made right?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
yes.

as the instructions state, the first 8 widgets need to be the background set (so they will go in the background of all icons and widgets.)

again, please follow the instructions. start with step 1:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
follow the steps in post three to install the background set. do not worry about anything else until that is done. do not worry about editing until they are installed! you can do it!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
This steps I don´t understand

HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY EDIT BACKGROUND WIDGET SETTINGS AND IMAGES.....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
do you have the widgets installed? (if your answer is no, then you must install them before doing anything else.)

if you do, what you tried and what is causing you issues?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
I don´t know what to do in the steps says 1. Create the image you want to use for a background - don't worry about the size at this point, just get your image how you want it on screen.

2. 3. 4. 5. 6.7. 8. all that steps i don´t know what to do
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jsmccabe78:
you must answer the following question before we can begin editing:

do you have the widgets installed?

(the answer is yes or no.)

thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] MichelDiamond:
Amazing theme - simply great!

Greetz

Micha
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Yes i have
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
OK, you don't have to do anything at all if you want to use the backgrounds as they are shown in the screenshots. The rest of the instructions are just for anyone wanting to go further and use different images for the backgrounds and change sizes etc.

So to make it clear - to use the BLUE SK-i theme as it is shown all you need to di is install the background widgets as they are the ones shown in the pictures. You can ignore the rest of the instructions about editing the backgrounds.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Ok, thanks let´s see :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Excuse me Sir (Dunc001) Wich rom do you use?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Less of the 'Sir' please - don't want to be giving me ideas above my station :p

I only ever use Elegancia ROMs - in my opinion the most stable cooked ROM there is. Click on the link in my signature.

Dunc (that's my name!)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorvacf:
Jaja, ok sorry Dunc, I will start again all the process with that rom thanks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] tobiascrystal:
holy cow

I have got to say I am truely thinking about giving WinMo another go around after seeing this. I can definitly see all of the months you have put behind this and I am truely impressed. I really hope I can get the same final results as you. I wish I had a full weekend to set aside this weekend. :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] cmajewsk:
Wow, this is truly amazing stuff! Thank you for all your hard work. You think HTC's software engineers look at this and go, "Damn, look at what they've done with Sense".
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] azaberl:
@ Dunc001 (or anyone else)

First of all, good job on this theme!

Since you came up with some great new stuff, I was wondering if following widget would be possible:

-when idle the widget would show perhaps date -pic1

-when you would receive sms or have a missed call it would show an icon pic2,pic3 without the count of unread messages/missed calls...

-if you would have both, it could show an exclamation mark

So basiclly it would mimic the icons in the taskbar.

The icon doesn't have to be a link to sense tab or widget, just an icon.

It would be ideal if the icons were .pngs and the string would have its own font for easy skinning...

I find this kind of hard to explain :p

hope I'm not asking for too much
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ericv99:
what does it mean when i get bl weather to look like this?

how do i fix it?

thanks

self fixed.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] h@ns1976:
thnx

thnx man..

You created one awesome theme.. :D

h@ns1976..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dragonmaster0430:
Can someone tell me if this theme will run on a Tilt2 with co0kie 2.0?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
No reason why not. Is Tilt2 WVGA?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dragonmaster0430:
yes it is...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ericv99:
my bl weather keeps showing up like this. I self fixed it by uninstalling

and reinstalling.but I can't be doing this every other day. does anyone know the cause of this?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hoyoyo80:
Hi..Thanks^^ nice addonn..but is there anyway i can rename the LABEL of those page? I love to show the label but my freelink that link to my fav program show page 1...not nice for me :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Read the post relating to the page switch links, it contains all of the instructions you'll need for finding and editing the icons
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] BHS Interceptor:
Hola Dunc, will do so as soon as I finish the actual FullTheme xml for most users and fully compatible with what´s out prior to SK-i. Then I´ll dig deeply into this one to see how it can be used with the standard xmls, and then also see if a special one needs to be done... Will be able to do so starting next week ;)

CHTS won´t switch all of it (till next week when new FullTheme xml is released for testing withing the group) and then we will need to add the new files to it as well. Regarding the icons, if you do the corresponding reg entries manually (set the names for the icons) CHTS will be able to switch all icons as well. If you´re to lazy to do that, then JWMD or CSMI will do, but I won´t be checking these for compatibility with CHTS switch.

And now since my main device is a "Mini", I´ll have to check what all is needed to port it to HVGA... :o
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] teekay426:
Amazing. Spent the last 4 hours installing this and playing around with the skins to understand what is going on.

I thank you big time for this.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] drdingdong:
Hi Dunc,

Saw a blue colored digital clock and vertically aligned minimal weather widget in one of your posts. Do not remember where I saw them. They will look great with BLUE SK-i theme. Can you post the cabs please?

Thanks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Dunc001:
Not yet. Still working on the clock and remaking the weather widget with rat's help to use Sense weather info rather than taking it from the BL Widget. This weekend hopefully.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] skysky57:
good morning my English and not check but and it possible to make a bacup of your shape CHT 2.0 A INSTALER THANK YOU