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Skinning and customising help, please.

Hiya,
I'm working on my first skin for my Hermes and I've stumbled across a minor but frustrating issue.
The Start Menu appears see-through. Given that I have an entirely black and white theme, this makes reading half of the Start Menu really difficult.
I am wondering if/where there is an editor so that I can work around this.
I've tried WisBar 3 and I didn't get on with it. It made my system slow(er) and clunky(/ier).
Also, given this is my first time and I am a general noob feel free to throw some skinning tips or hints in.
P.S. Searched this site and Google and didn't come up with anything specifically for the SM.
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I don't believe your problem is of transparency. I think the start menu is using the same background as the Today screen. Try using something like ThemeGenCe to customise it if you are not using cubes and such.

Oh, I have that. I just haven't played with it properly.
I'll have a look and see what I can come up with.
This skin (although ugly) is basically a 'My First Tomy Skin'. I was fiddling about with Photoshop to see if I could make my own clock. I could.
The next one I'll work on with a bit more colour. But thanks for your advice.

Use QuickMenu, great start menu replacement. Then under the settings of QM, you can use a different background image for the start menu.

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Use QuickMenu, great start menu replacement. Then under the settings of QM, you can use a different background image for the start menu.
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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

you probably have a background image now?
The way I choose my startmenu background color and/or image =
make a (small) bmp with only the color you want.
then open this bmp file with resco explorer.
when image is viewed press 'menu'.
and then press 'set as background'
At least works for me with my Touch Pro, it won't change the TouchFlo3d background, but it will change the Startmenu background.
To change the startmenu text color go into registry and edit the following:
HKLocalMachine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Color ->
Binary Value 39 = Startmenu Text Color
white = FF FF FF 00
Black = 50 50 50 00 (i think)
cheers

Searched, Read Wiki, Experimented, still need help changing themes

Hi all,
Been on the forum for a couple of months. It's been a great learning experience. I Have a Touch Pro and have Downloaded and installed ROMeOS2 v1.50.4 B1208 and flashed the radio to 1.02.25.28 Raphael (better than .32 version for me which I flashed to first).
I have also installed Diamond TF3D Config 0.6.7 and attempted to install new themes.
Here's my problem - no matter which theme I install - I can't change the red "flame" background on the home screen. I've spent several hours looking around, searching to no avail. It's time to ask.
What am I not doing?! Or doing wrong?
Thanks much,
David

tf3d settings tab (like a gear cog), tap wallpaper, use default.
edit: assuming you've already changed theme and the home tab is the only thing you are having an issue with.

from what i'm reading, might be just my interpretation, but it sounds like you're simply just havign a problem with the wallpaper, not the theme? isn't the simple fix as venelar described, and using whichever wallpaper you want (assuming you have a wallpaper you'd like to use and know the file location)

Yes, It is wallpaper I cannot seem to change. Where is
tf3d settings? I can't find the settings icon in programs, accessories, settings, etc - I've looked everywhere!

its a tf3 tab. generally all the way to the right. has the communications stuff on it that you press to go into comm manager to turn on off wifi/bluetooth etc..
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Click wallpaper>use default once you have changed theme. MSPaint to the rescue

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tf3d settings? I can't find the settings icon in programs, accessories, settings, etc - I've looked everywhere!
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You looked everywhere, but must have missed the Settings tab in TF3D.
When you are on your TF3D homepage, go to the settings tab (by sliding your thumb to the right untill you get to the tab named 'Settings').
On that tab there is a rule stating: Wallpaper. It is the third option on the settings tab. I bet its even explained in the manual .

s2u2 install, bottom row shifted?

i don't know how to explain it, but i'm 99% positive it has to do with the installation of s2u2 as it happened immediately after. so i installed s2u2 to try it out and see what the hype was all about, and all of a sudden, all icons that show on the bottom of my phone have shifted down. today screen, messaging, everywhere...any icons on the bottom have shifted down. i'm going to post a screenshot below this, but does anyone have any idea what's happened?
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I'm too! plz help!!

anhphe076: It looks like you're using coOkie's home tab. 1'st did you do a soft reset after installing s2u2? 2'nd if that doesn't work did you try selecting menu from the bottom right and selecting "Edit Home Layout" and playing around with that? Maybe those will help.

the edit home layout doesn't let you move the bottom slider icons around.

I u Co0kie's Home Tab v1.7.1, I soft reset 2'nd time but it problem!!

I was thinking that if you reduced the number of quicklinks that were showing on the home tab from 3 rows to 2 rows and then restarted manila that it might resolve the problem. Sorry for not being more specific. Other than that, have you tried uninstalling s2u2?

I have used S2U2 on almost all ROMs out there and havent had this problem. Have you selected to auto-hide the manila bar ? If yes, try disabling that option and see if it helps.

Hi guys! I have been having this same problem but haven't yet been able to determine exactly what is causing it. However I have found a way to kinda fix the problem. I have cleanRAM installed and have it configured to restart Sense without doing a soft reset. Once it resets Sense, the slider position is corrected. The only catch is that this needs to be done after each soft reset...

I had this as well. There's a new version of s2u2 which fixes the issue - have you checked the website?

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I had this as well. There's a new version of s2u2 which fixes the issue - have you checked the website?
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Look at that! I just installed s2u2 version 2.40 and the shifted slider problem is no more! Thanks, guy

[Q] Landscape dialer - please help!

I have searched and searched but can't seem to find a solution anywhere to this problem:
I really would like to be able to use my phone dialer in landscape as I have it fixed in a landscape holder in the car to use iGo. I have added the a new string in HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\WhiteList named 'Dialog' with a value of 'Dialog' so this now allows the phone canvas to rotate to landscape from portrait. I also tried adding a new string called 'Phone' in HKCU\Software|HTC\HTCSENSOR\ModuleName and giving it a value of '\Windows\cprog.exe and adding a string called 'Phone' in the WhiteList with the value 'crpog' but neither of these (or any combination of the three entries) made any difference over the original entry listed above so I removed the latter two.
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The problem is that if I have my phone in landscape then open the dialer by pressing the left hardkey it opens momentarily in portrait then rotates to landscape (would be nicer if it opened directly in landscape but this isn't a major issue). The dialer is then fully functional (all buttons work, you can hide and reveal the keypad, etc) until you press the talk button and then the active call window opens in portrait. If I then move the phone from landscape to portrait and back again the active call window then switches to landscape and again is fully functional there. When you then end call which closes the active call window it goes back to the dialer window which again is now back in portrait!!!!
My question is - does anyone far cleverer than me know how to get both windows to check for orientation first before opening? There must be a workround for this surely - some clever reg tweak that everyone probably knows about already but which I can't find

The registry keys you are describing tell the phone which apps for which it is okay to detect an orientation change, not the target orientation for the apps. I think you would need to create a per-app script that would actually change the orienatation of the system (such as what you can do from your WinMo settings screen) and then launch the app in question... and then change the orientation back after the app is closed. If anyone knows of an existing cab or tool that does all this, I too would be interested in it...

System Colors?

hi @all
i'm using the latest energy rom from here. I was trying to change the colors of outlook and the rest of the original windows mobile stuff from white background to black background and white text with sktools.
So far, so godd but i have the problem, that now the contact list is white background/white text just the highlighted one is ok. in SMS view via outlook it works great and even some menus are good some others not working that way but i think these are sense menus which would be ok for me. For example the file manager is also as i like it. what to do to solve this problem is there a solution? or maybe an easier way to change just this white background into black and the main text into white?

you probably will not able to do, wm background color value is used for others screens, I mean: when you set a black BG ,the same value is used for something else (can't remember which element.. text or highlight).
then every black background has this side effect.
the best you can reach is this dark grey combination (from Artemis rom thread and a WP7 variation) that let you read the text in all situations
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you can also play with the attached UITweaker , not every option work on wm6.5 but the most of them do, and make all your tests.
for more infos check out the windows mobile forum and look for skinning WM6.5 threads

thanks alot! i got an compromise now which is working well so far. with sktools i swapped the color values and somehow now it works great even the highlighted stuff is ok so i found nothing which is incorrect so far even the settings menu or so it's fine don't know why it wasn't working the first time i did that. i would go over to android but i need the garmin app which is not working under it.