"Shadow Text" effect for home screen? - Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other

Hi,
I'm wondering, is there an option somewhere to make WM 6 or 6.1 do a "shadow text" effect on text on the home screen? I have a nice home screen image, mostly dark but with a few lighter colored spots. The text on my phone is white so in the light colored spots, it's hard to see. I could set it to black, but then it's hard to see it in the dark areas.
I know Facade has this, but I kind of like the WM6.1 home screen and would rather just use it w/o Facade.
So.. Anyone know a trick? I searched the net and the board but didn't find much (not that it helped having a search term (shadow) that's also the name of a phone!
Thanks,
Tim

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Do you think I could get away with using pimp my black (to get a few of the reg tweaks easier) and vibra call (mapping the push-hold record key to toggle between ring and vibrate).
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I did load "device lock" to lock keys on power-up and HTC softkey mapper and they both work fine. I also loaded the Black Glossy Bars theme with no problem but I've got to dig up a reg editor to load to be able to tweak the black bars back to black and other things.
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You shouldn't use the hermes tools unless youre positive the same registry entry exists on the kaiser. Otherwise you're adding and modifying the wrong entries in the kaiser.
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evolution_theory said:
The registry on the Kaiser is NOT the same as the Hermes.
You shouldn't use the hermes tools unless youre positive the same registry entry exists on the kaiser. Otherwise you're adding and modifying the wrong entries in the kaiser.
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Understood, the tweaks I've applied so far were to keys that did exist. Gotta start somewhere
RemE said:
Well, Pimp my black does NOT work,
I did a few reg tweaks from the Hermes_Registry Settings Wiki, so far this works;
Loaded Black Glossy Bars theame, reg tweaked the basehue to 160 and got the black bars back (from the grey that they were).
Got rid of the "in-call volume beeps" with reg tweak.
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I tried Vijay Lumos with the hope of having a mappable button to get the Bright Screen, this is VERY useful when outdoors and you need a quick punch of brightness to the screen. It didn't work.
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i'm interested in getting the black glossy bars. i'd be grateful if you'd post a copy of the theme file and the reg tweak. thx.
I've attached the Black Glossy Bar Theme. It's not a zip file I had to change it's extension to attach it here. Just rename it as BlackGlossy.tsk and put it in your documents folder. In Today settings, select it as your theme.
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RemE said:
I've attached the Black Glossy Bar Theme. It's not a zip file I had to change it's extension to attach it here. Just rename it as BlackGlossy.tsk and put it in your documents folder. In Today settings, select it as your theme.
The top and bottom bars will be glossy grey. With a reg editor go to;
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\Basehue , thenchange value to decimal value 160
The bars will now be Black and Glossy!
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cortezzi said:
i'm interested in getting the black glossy bars. i'd be grateful if you'd post a copy of the theme file and the reg tweak. thx.
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