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Theme help!

Im in the process of making my own theme but there is one part i'm stuck on. In certain places the colours are not from a png but from a registry setting i.e the list selectors in call history, or apps like Resco Explorer.
I suspect it's the reg entry in tsk as below:
ThemeValues"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
FF,FF,FF,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,50,50,50,00,FF,FF,FF,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
This gives a shade of grey but how do i edit this string to make those same selectors black? I think it is the 50,50,50 part so do i just lower those values or is there more to it?

Yep, that's the value to change. You can even achieve more complicated results like inverting the system colors (as seen in kane159 HollBlack Themes).
For the selection colors you mentioned you already found the right digits, you have to change them to 00,00,00 for black. You need to understand how the hexadecimal RGB-notation works for this .

Thank you for confirming that. At least it's not going to be trial and error now

Here's a trickier one. Hopefully somebody will know the solution:
When you tap and hold on an item to bring up a context menu there is the circle of dots animation. How does one modify the colour of that now? I understand that it used to be an entry in the same place as above called 40 with a Binary value. I assume as i don't have that value that the method has changed?

Look in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\MultiColorTheme, there are four values (BaseColor1 through BaseColor4). The dots you mentioned get the color by somehow mixing these four values together... I have BaseColor1 and 3 set to black (simply 0) and the other two to white (FFFFFF hex), and the dots are grey. They also controll the gradient in some legacy message boxes (for example when deleting something from the file explorer).

I see what you mean! Mine are set to the same values as yours and so are obviously grey too. I want them black really so i will try it with all values set to 0.
Thanks again for your help!
EDIT: Well, i altered the values of all four to 0 in my tsk and re-installed my Theme. It's still grey I guess there must be more to it than this. It's not a big deal but if you have any other suggestions i'd really appreciate it.

changing text colour of GenieWidget?

anyone know how to change the text of the widget on the homescreen?
I figured it would be in white_text.xml and grey_text.xml but i changed what i thought would correspond to the text colour (from the preceeding code), hell i then changed every bloody FFFFFF in there one at a time for no change. I have managed to change the text inside the widget when you open it up by changing new_white_text.xml and news_grey_test.xml
Any ideas? Maybe a smali edit? Had a quick look thru smali files but couldn't really find anything to change this colour (i am very new to smali stuff).
If you have been able to change it can you let me know the line number maybe?
thanks

Hi, I did this a while back so I forgot what value I changed, but here is the file I changed in Metamorph. You can maybe do a comparison to see what's changed.
It also has the background for Moonsspoon's gchrome, however the theme file isn't included. (So don't use it as-is)
Hope this helps

Thanks heaps mate. I will try it out later and see how I go.

[Q] Skin the Inbox/SMS, ActiveSync

Good Morning,
I've just tried to skin my whole phone with metro/wp7. So far I managed to skin pretty much everything but the Messaging App and Active Sync background. It should be black like the background when composing a message.
Here the screen-shots of both (changing the font is no problem, thanks to UItweek):
Screenshot 1 and 2 in the attachment
And thats the way the "composing a message" windows looks like and the inbox should look as well:
Screenshot 3 in the attachment
Thanks for the help
PS: My ROM is Energy.BLACKSTONE.23678.Sense2.5.Cookie.DinikGlass.Aug.18.

Looks great! Good Job!
What would the threaded messages window look like , like pic 2 or 3?

I really like the threaded messages window so I'll post it too. It looks like it should with black background...
Any ideas?

how to change the threaded messages window background color?

That was pretty simple. Either you use UItweak http://www.freewareppc.com/download/utilities/uitweaker.shtml or look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=603905 if you want a picture as background.
The problem: Both won't change the Inbox window background and that's what I want.

i download the ui tweaker but having dificulties on which options to change outlook/sms thread background color, can you point me? thanks

that's exactly my problem, i can't change the inbox background just the background for viewing and typing messages.
If you want to change the "viewing and typing" background just go to "SysColor Changer". Change there the color to black (I don't know which one exactly you have to change for this effect. I changed pretty much every background to black and the font to a light blue. With white font you won't be able to see the text in the inbox window)
In the attachment you'll find my sys file. I tried to style my phone a bit wp7/metro like. just rename it to blue-black.sys (xda won't let me upload a *.sys file) and import it.

thanks, i'll play a little with it

if you have a solution for my problem, plz post it

Is there anyone with a solution or is it posted in the wrong section?

I think its better to close this thread now. Maybe there is simply no answer to that question.

OP, did you ever figure out how to change the background?
I have a theme that has the text input section black, but the chat log section is grey. I want to change the background to black but I can't figure out how.
Can someone please tell me how I can edit a .tsk file to make a black background for threaded sms? I've been searching everywhere and I can find which specific edit I need to make to change the background SMS window colour. Also the font colour for that window will need to be changed to white.
I'm trying to edit this theme I have attached.
Here is a screen shot of how it looks now. and the other screen shot is roughly how I want it to look (with black background).

bobzero said:
OP, did you ever figure out how to change the background?
I have a theme that has the text input section black, but the chat log section is grey. I want to change the background to black but I can't figure out how.
Can someone please tell me how I can edit a .tsk file to make a black background for threaded sms? I've been searching everywhere and I can find which specific edit I need to make to change the background SMS window colour. Also the font colour for that window will need to be changed to white.
I'm trying to edit this theme I have attached.
Here is a screen shot of how it looks now. and the other screen shot is roughly how I want it to look (with black background).
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Hi bobzero
I'm sorry but I never worked out how to get this done. I have skinned the "message writing window" by using UITweak. Maybe yours is not skinned because I've used an Energy ROM and there HTC Messaging is disabled.
At the moment I'm using Sense again with a very good looking X-mas theme. Maybe after Christmas I'll "return" to WP7.

The pocket outlook and contacts background is definied by the "gradient" color values under the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Color]
There are four keys named 15, 16, 36, 37 which are the alternating left to right gradient colours. You could set all of them to a single value to get a solid background color.
I find these through a Japanese customisation software called "PocketHand"
http://smart-pda.net/isourou/pockethand/

Need help with a theme

Yes I need help editing a theme. The theme I installed on my phone makes certain apps have the same text color as the background color making it impossible to read. I've tried using ninjamorph to edit the affected apps but I can't figure it out or if someone could edit the theme itself for me to install since I'm not good at it at all I'd appreciate it.
The affected apps so far is:
Meetme (myyearbook)
Pro wrestling.net
Also the notification background is pretty close to the text color as well.
I'd like to be able to just edit the text color to make it a brighter more noticeable color. Anyone have any assistance they could provide?
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium

You can't use Ninja morph to edit the xmls color, only replace them it the are compiled... since ninjamorph doesn't decompile the xmls are pretty much unreadable. If you send me the what you have and the color you want the text to be I can change it for you.

Annex1 said:
You can't use Ninja morph to edit the xmls color, only replace them it the are compiled... since ninjamorph doesn't decompile the xmls are pretty much unreadable. If you send me the what you have and the color you want the text to be I can change it for you.
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OK thanks.
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here's the link to it :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vjn84k1cezj32aq/WT.GS2.AOKP.zip
id like for the text to be able to be blue in all apps. if possible. some were showing white on white which seems weird to me. if u cant get it its ok no big deal.

[Q] Color text

Hi! Who could help me to change the color gray to white to this framework please
http://www.casimages.es/i/131214082622979516.jpg.html
I left the file here: https://app.box.com/s/4fak7yy6wxb61zzctflj
Thank you!!!

you have a custom rom, light themed?
you have to understand, if you change something inf ramework-res.apk...probably it will affect another app then. its quiet impossible to have no problems.
i think it would be easier to change the walkman background to a light color.
edit, you can also try to look into semcmusic.apk for change the textcolor, maybe you can define that inside the .xml's
also in the walkman apk you can finde out where the textcolor gets the color from. for example if its defined in the walkman apk, or in framework-res?
search a bit on xda, read a bit, and then try out yourself. you shouldnt be able to break something...
havent that much time here

Does anyone know how to change the color in textfields when they are selected and the keyboard is shown?
Did some nice theme but this is my single error :/
Tried to find the corresponding line in styles.xml but didnt have any luck..
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