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Hi all, I was looking through sys/shell for the titlebar icons for battery, etc and noticed they are all monochrome bitmap. Has anyone tried changing these icons to 16 color bitmaps and changing the color on them? I really want to try, but I don't feel like doing something idiotic. Anyone have any experience with this?
Would be great if we could change them to something more colorful!!!
I agree, I've already edited them and everything to what I want, however I don't want to throw them into the kitchen, flash the ROM have it mess up and brick the thing because I can't get an activesync connection because WM won't load because of missing system files
I'll try them on my prophet... I've got back from no shell at all before...
that'd be cool. Let me know, I was looking at in on my PPC6800, WM6.1 I believe
anyone have any experience with this?
I was wondering if anyone has a cab file for the colored calendar tab with the blue and red saturdays and colored corner indicators and the day of the week in the tab icon? I have the manila 1920 and I have not seen any that are compatible with this version, (I have googled it, searched topaz, and leo), all I have found are the newer versions of manila and they have bg4all and other stuff attached to the same cab that I have already and was hoping that I could get just the calendar can by itself. If anyone has this and is willing to share I would greatly appreciate a link to a thread or download. Thanks in advance!
if im correct energy roms contain that now
toztigger said:
if im correct energy roms contain that now
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I understand that, but I have tried the energy roms on my phone, and I am not exactly thrilled with them. I was just hoping that someone would have a cab file of the calendar colors because I am very happy with my ROM I have now and I have everything set up just the way I want it. I am just finding there is a few things I am still looking for to make my ROM and customization complete. If you know of a way to extract the calendar from an energy rom, I'm all ears
I want to customize the slider and icons of the home screen tabs by myself (in Photoshop)?
Where are the images of these stored and what registry keys do I need to change (if any)?
Thanks
PS: I use JWMD for the start menu icons, is there a similar app for the home screen tab? - probably not
please guys, somebody help me with this.
i reformulated my request, i've been probably misunderstood - that would explain why nobody bothered to answer by now...
this is my last attempt to get your attention into this. I can't believe none of the people who know answered, is this such a big secret?
antaed said:
this is my last attempt to get your attention into this. I can't believe none of the people who know answered, is this such a big secret?
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Hi Antaed.
I'm surprised too that no one has replied to your question.
I think the problem is not so much that it is a big secret, but that it is very complicated and therefore difficult to reply to.
I've done a bit of work on changing icons myself, so I can probably explain to you what is involved and what you have to do. But you will need to decide for yourself whether you want to put in the effort...
The slider icons (and the slider itself) are .png images stored in manila files. So the first thing you will need to do is find out, for your version of Manila, which files contain the slider icons for your version.
The best way to find out which files you need to change is to 'unzip' an existing cab which changes the slider icons on your version of manila and read the setup.xml file to extract the names of the manila files in the cab.
Please note that there are 3 files for each slider icon!
Then you will need to extract the .png files from the manila files. I use CFC GUI (available on this forum) to extract the .png files.
Once you have the original .png files, you will see that the slider icons do not take up the whole 128x128 pixels of the file but are placed approximately in the top left corner of the .png file. This will be your guide as to how big to make your new icons and where to place the new icon within the 128x128 matrix.
Please note that there are two different positions depending on whether the image you are replacing is the standard position in the row of icons or the icon visible 'within' the slider (seen as you move the slider along the row of icons), which is slightly higher and to the left.
Once you have created your new .png files in the same format as the originals, you should then use CFC GUI again to replace the original image with your new ones in the appropriate manila file.
You can then either manually move your new manila files across to your device (not recommended) or create a cab file to install them (and uninstall them) in one go (highly recommended!).
I would advise (from experience) only doing a couple of icons first until you have the exact position for the icon with the file. The position should then be the same for every icon.
The slider itself is fortunately only one file and therefore a lot easier to change. Again the best way to find out which manila file you need to change for your version is to unzip a cab file that changes the slider on your version and read the setup.xml file.
Hope this helps... (Well, at least you got an answer!)
And "No", I do not know of an easier way of doing this!
Johnkst, thanks for your kind reply, I started to have doubts I'll get an answer to this .
About the procedure - yes, it's pretty challenging but I'll try .
First because it's kind of a new adventure for me and then because I feel I owe it to you now, as I don't want to leave your effort in vain .
If I'll succeed (and I don't see why not) you'll be the first to receive my work.
Thanks again and best regards,
Antaed
Changing slider icons and the slider...
antaed said:
Johnkst, thanks for your kind reply, I started to have doubts I'll get an answer to this .
About the procedure - yes, it's pretty challenging but I'll try .
First because it's kind of a new adventure for me and then because I feel I owe it to you now, as I don't want to leave your effort in vain .
If I'll succeed (and I don't see why not) you'll be the first to receive my work.
Thanks again and best regards,
Antaed
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That's the right attitude, Antaed...!
I don't know if it will help you, but I am attaching two cabs to this post. They are ones I made myself for my HD2, which uses Manila 2.5.1920. I THINK the same files are used for 1921, but I don't know for sure...
There might be some stuff in there that you do not need, but they might also be useful to help you identify the files you need to change.
One is for the clear slider on the main tabs (it also slightly changes the black '2nd level' slider), the other for the slider icons.
The slider icons it installs are those from Jaguaralani. Let me know once you have downloaded as I will remove them again. I know Jaguaralani does not want his/her theme split up and my posting a cab which installs only the slider icons probably goes against those wishes... - Done!
Good luck!
done, thanks.
Hey everyone,
I just have a quick question, is it possible to extract the wait cursor from this CAB by Dafunk and put it in a CAB so I can install JUST the wait cursor rather than the whole taskbar?
Please say there is 'cos I love the cursor but I'm not a fan of the whole taskbar compared to the one of EnergyROM's xD
Thanks a lot in advance,
Luke.
EDIT!!!: Here are the results of what I did:
Well, like I said, I found a program that extracts the .CAB, so I did that, got the shellress.192.dll from the taskbar .CAB and then, painfully slowly, added each bitmap (16 in total) using reshacker to the original shellres.192.dll that came with the EnergyROM. (This means it will only work with EnergyROM's that aren't GTX or 6.5.X)
It works great! Here's the .dll (has to be .ZIP'd), can someone CAB it up please? I don't know what I'm doing with that.
Oh and a screenshot...
If someone with the original shellres .dll thing from stock 6.5 wants me to put that cursor (or any other for that matter) just gimme the things and I'll happily do it for you (my little in return to XDA)
If you extract the cab with a cab manager program, you just need to figure out what files hold the cursor and repackage the cab.
Check the registries to make sure they don't need to be extracted too.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Erm, I have a program called "WinCE CAB Manager" (30 day trial) and have looked at the files in the CAB and I can only see .BMP and .DLL files, and I would guess it would a .GIF file being as though it's animated?
I'm a little confused now as to what to do...?
Also, as you said there are REG keys there but I don't think they are relevant to what I'm looking for.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Erm, I have a program called "WinCE CAB Manager" (30 day trial) and have looked at the files in the CAB and I can only see .BMP and .DLL files, and I would guess it would a .GIF file being as though it's animated?
I'm a little confused now as to what to do...?
Also, as you said there are REG keys there but I don't think they are relevant to what I'm looking for.
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I extracted the cab as well, I do not think any registries are involved.
You'll have to do some research on which combimnation of .dll & .bmps make up the cursor.
Yes, I would assume a .gif as well, but didn't see one in there either.
Another option (I know you're looking for a specific one but....), you can find cursors packaged together with themes that won't overwrite your taskbar.
Sorry I do not have a clear cut answer for you.
You may want to ask one of our many modders out there like in Dusk's thread, or perhaps Maxcy...
Bruce Inman said:
I extracted the cab as well, I do not think any registries are involved.
You'll have to do some research on which combimnation of .dll & .bmps make up the cursor.
Yes, I would assume a .gif as well, but didn't see one in there either.
Another option (I know you're looking for a specific one but....), you can find cursors packaged together with themes that won't overwrite your taskbar.
Sorry I do not have a clear cut answer for you.
You may want to ask one of our many modders out there like in Dusk's thread, or perhaps Maxcy...
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Well I just remembered seeing the cursor shown on the XDA front page (http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/bw-taskbar-icons-wait-animation/) as a .GIF... If I take that would I be able to put that somewhere to replace the current cursor?
I sent a message to Dafunk2 asking if he can make a .CAB with this... Hopefully this will sort it xD if not I shall keep searching.
edit: He hasn't replied yet... Guessing he's a busy man xD
I hear you with the cursor in these taskbar apps. I think I'm going to use this kids app until it's found how to pull this files out. Link ==->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=497196
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I hear you with the cursor in these taskbar apps. I think I'm going to use this kids app until it's found how to pull this files out. Link ==->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=497196
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Well that does look interesting but I don't really want even more things installed on my phone.
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Well that does look interesting but I don't really want even more things installed on my phone.
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It crashed & burn hahaha oh boy. I was tryin diff. things anyway. Someone sent me a note about a taskbar that doesn't have it. So I'm waitin for that.
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It crashed & burn hahaha oh boy. I was tryin diff. things anyway. Someone sent me a note about a taskbar that doesn't have it. So I'm waitin for that.
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Haha, well I'll stay away from that then xD
I think I'll have to look more into how the wait cursor works so I can try and do it myself.
Hi,
Have you read dafunk2 taskbar thread?
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TO ALL OF YOU THAT WANT ONLY THE CUSTOM WAIT CURSOR:
No guys, there is no way to make a cab for only the custom wait cursor.
This is because the custom wait cursor graphics are into the file shellres.192.dll. Into this file reside also many of the taskbar icons and other miscellaneous graphics. If I make a cab with only the file shellres.192.dll and you install it, you will have my wait cursor, but you will have many of my taskbar icons as well. It's good if you use my taskbar (but if you use my taskbar you already have my cursor ), but if you use another taskbar....you can easily understand what can happen.
So this is why there's no way to make a cab that installs only the cursor.
I'm thinking about to make some colors variations of the cursor, but I think that I will make them for cookers (and who knows how to edit dlls) and I will post the 32bit bitmaps in the Windows Mobile Themes section.
I'm sorry.....but I'm explaining why this is impossible
Anyway, many thanks for the great interest for my custom wait cursor
Regards,
dafunk
So, you need original cursor files and a man capable of editing dll.
artukas613 said:
Hi,
Have you read dafunk2 taskbar thread?
guote:
TO ALL OF YOU THAT WANT ONLY THE CUSTOM WAIT CURSOR:
No guys, there is no way to make a cab for only the custom wait cursor.
This is because the custom wait cursor graphics are into the file shellres.192.dll. Into this file reside also many of the taskbar icons and other miscellaneous graphics. If I make a cab with only the file shellres.192.dll and you install it, you will have my wait cursor, but you will have many of my taskbar icons as well. It's good if you use my taskbar (but if you use my taskbar you already have my cursor ), but if you use another taskbar....you can easily understand what can happen.
So this is why there's no way to make a cab that installs only the cursor.
I'm thinking about to make some colors variations of the cursor, but I think that I will make them for cookers (and who knows how to edit dlls) and I will post the 32bit bitmaps in the Windows Mobile Themes section.
I'm sorry.....but I'm explaining why this is impossible
Anyway, many thanks for the great interest for my custom wait cursor
Regards,
dafunk
So, you need original cursor files and a man capable of editing dll.
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Ah right, that makes sense lol. Thanks for pointing this out
It can be done easily. You need to extract shellres.xxx.dll from the cab. Then edit shellres with reshacker, and find the wait cursor icons. Then swap them to what you need.
PS: Dont ask me step by step instructions.
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It can be done easily. You need to extract shellres.xxx.dll from the cab. Then edit shellres with reshacker, and find the wait cursor icons. Then swap them to what you need.
PS: Dont ask me step by step instructions.
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Oh right, this sounds good, is reshacker all I need to edit the .dll?
Can anyone point me in the right direction of a .CAB editor please?
I found this one but have not used it. Its available here on XDA.
I use WINCE Cab manager but it's a pay app I believe.
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I found this one but have not used it. Its available here on XDA.
I use WINCE Cab manager but it's a pay app I believe.
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Hmm, this looks good, but it's only for creating .CAB's.. Anyway, as I was dabbling in a bit of cooking (failed btw ) I found a program that extracts .CAB's for use in ROM's so I used reshacker and found there are a LOT of .BMP's for the cursor, but I have no idea what to do with them from here, if anyone has a use for them then I will happily extract them and post them here.
Okay, so I thought I'd found out how to do this... Well I have, BUT now I've got problems with taskbar icons (Messenger notification icon is all I found).
This icon has returned to the default 6.5 icon after I edited the shellress .dll, has anyone got any ideas?
Thanks once again,
Luke.
Hello,
I wonder if anyone is able to/wants to help me?
I am looking for confirmation of the manila file names for CHT 1.8... (I have been browsing the forum but can only find cabs and not the file names for this)
I have been looking through the files by using cfc-gui but I can’t confidently identify the right files!!
I just want to personalise my own files, initially to achieve a transparent home screen, but ongoing to something else.
The clock files are identified on the CHT thread, but not the bars/panels.
I think I have identified the following files (for not-pressed bars), but on modifying them and loading them onto the phone (in the Windows folder, and then restarting manila, and also soft resetting) they don’t all seem to change as I expected.
These ones do work:
0B7F6995_manila = appointment expand/pull-down grip
30D807DA_manila = thin bar with rounded corners to ‘finish’ lower appointment
0d61c97c_manila = date bar
740dc76b_manila = alarm bar
These ones don’t work:
43A0289_manila = appointment list bar
77BAF4F0_manila = notifications full bar
(if these aren’t what I think they are, then what have I changed by modding these files??!!)
I can see from various mods on this forum that people are able to change the files I want to work with, so I must just be playing with the wrong files.
Any help would be good, and it’ll save me time by further searching many pages of the forum and struggling to identify the files in the Windows folder (which is proving very difficult it seems).
Thank you.
it would be good if there was a manila library on here somewhere - cfc-gui is a really good tool, but it's just not doing a proper job for me on this occasion!!!
PS: I have current version 1.66 standard UK ROM on HD2, non-network specific. My CHT 1.8 is working fine, no issues, I just want to mod it a bit!
Agree with the above would be good if there was a list available as took me ages just to find the default cover art for music and couldn't find the mini music player background. I'm using cfc-gui as well and there's as many/if not more files under unknown as there are with headers which makes it really difficult. I've just been going through them 1 by 1 and I'm going to try edit a few on the weekend so will let you know what I find.
Cheers - any help on this would be appreciated. There are loads of mods for this already, but not many sharing info!!
I'll keep on looking...
In the meantime, if anyone else can assist - much appreciated it will be!
If anyone is interested, I found what I was looking for:
10376502_manila = notifications bar
438A0283_manila = appointments bar
I've attached all of these files as transparent in the .zip below. The only one that isn't fully transparent is the pull-down grip which I have added little grip dots to it so you know where it is, otherwise transparent.
** Back-up original files from the Windows folder before overwriting! **
the clock white background remains white, Any updates of others ?
nice work, i liked it, when ever I flash a new rom I was installing transparencies.. not anymore...
I hope you keep up with this threat...
can you show a picture of this please!!
many people will be much help if you put screenshot..if you ask someone's help try to help someone also and someone will apreciate yours
Has anyone asked Co0kieMonster?
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Has anyone asked Co0kieMonster?
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no one i assume...
why dont you share these info with them ...
Is something being requested in the posts above?
I can't quite work out what it is - is it a transparent clock? - if so, which sort?
Aren't there plenty of clocks for CHT on XDA already, do they not work?
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Agree with the above would be good if there was a list available as took me ages just to find the default cover art for music and couldn't find the mini music player background..
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I've been looking for the music player manila files too.. Did you have any joy finding the music player background.. would be interested in this if anyone can help?
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I've been looking for the music player manila files too.. Did you have any joy finding the music player background.. would be interested in this if anyone can help?
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No didn't find them but I'm going to look at the files in a cab I used to change the music player when I get a chance this weekend and will let you know.
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If anyone is interested, I found what I was looking for:
10376502_manila = notifications bar
438A0283_manila = appointments bar
I've attached all of these files as transparent in the .zip below. The only one that isn't fully transparent is the pull-down grip which I have added little grip dots to it so you know where it is, otherwise transparent.
** Back-up original files from the Windows folder before overwriting! **
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could someone post the original manila files please, as i`d like to revert back but didnt know how to back them up.. Thanks
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could someone post the original manila files please, as i`d like to revert back but didnt know how to back them up.. Thanks
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cmon guys you dont want ole **** turps to have to hard reset do you??? lol
Would like to help...
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cmon guys you dont want ole **** turps to have to hard reset do you??? lol
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I would like to help but I am using Dusk ROM with Cookie cooked in to it and skinned by G10 so I think they are not the ones you want.
Also a hard reset is always a good reason to try another ROM
Regards,
Rainbow86
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cmon guys you dont want ole **** turps to have to hard reset do you??? lol
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Depending on which files you edited..... you might be able to get them back by installing/uninstalling/reinstalling CHT..... maybe.....
Which particular files do you need...??
if by chance I have them backed up Ill post them for you... I dont have that many though....
There is a link in the FAQ section of the CHT thread's main post from Co0kie, for transparencies and some graphics restore cabs.
That should help answer some of your questions.
If you have any other questions still after looking at those cabs and files, let me know.
You can go directly to that thread to the first post where the link is, by clicking the CHT banner in my sig., or clicking the link above will take you there directly.
thanks for the responce guys! i'm actually not sure what manilla files they are lol, i just know there the ones which make the calendar and call history transparent. i've tried re-installing CHT but transparency is still there, it wasnt a cab see. i overwritten the original files with zip file on page one. but would like the glass panel look which dinik created. installing dinik theme the transparent calendar/call history is still there. someone who backed up the manila files before installing that zip file could help... were are they!! lol
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thanks for the responce guys! i'm actually not sure what manilla files they are lol, i just know there the ones which make the calendar and call history transparent. i've tried re-installing CHT but transparency is still there, it wasnt a cab see. i overwritten the original files with zip file on page one. but would like the glass panel look which dinik created. installing dinik theme the transparent calendar/call history is still there. someone who backed up the manila files before installing that zip file could help... were are they!! lol
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I have attached the original files that you highlighted a couple of posts above...
in the zip file are the original files if you want to drop them in manually, or a cab file for if you want to do it the easy way - all it does is place the two manila files in the windows folder, and it's not going to appear in the applications list either (you can't 'uninstall it'), its a one-way cab.
Thanks for all your help guys but looks like its not to be. they were the right manila files but after getting rid of the transparency`s and installing diniks theme everything has the glass panels but calender/call history. maybe the rom i`m using is affecting the theme (cleanex rom). but again thanks for your help guys.