Windows Mobile 5 Themes :CAB Vs TSk - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

Hi,
I'm trying to create a theme for a Dopod 838 Pro ( HTS Herems/TyTN ).
All I want is for the top and bottom bars to be red, all font to be white, and have my custom image insterted, so it loks right when flipped.
I don't want to have to screw around with XML files, if can be avoided.
So, What i've done is, got my hands onto a theme that has the attributes that I'm after.
It comes in TSK format.
So I opened the file with OCP cab manger, extracted it, substituted the images for my own and rebundled the file as a CAB.
Well, I did think it would work.
I was wrong
What is different between a CAB and TSK file ?
Why can't Cab Manager save them and have it operate as it was before.
?

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wm5 native theme/skin files??

hi
does anyone know where the native skin/theme files are for JJ? i dont mean the .tsk files i mean the (probably .dll) that controls the skin layout
forexample like there is a mui file that if replaced with custom images replaces the native wait thingie you see when the ppc is busy
im thinking if we can find and replace the actual .dll or mui file that controls the skin/theme (wifi, connection ,volume etc icons ) on the top bar then we can do soooo much more without having to install wa2 ...
dont get me wrong i love wa2 (i have it on with WAD now)
also like when you select ur own theme (.tsk file) ive seen that not all colors are shown as they were when the vga .tsk was created like you cant have a black theme ...wm5 will change it to gray and so on
so if you have any idea which file to mess with let me know..
id try myself but dont know which ones to look for and those i tried copying over to memory card or to pc via AS ..I GET A CANT COPY ERROR

Windows Mobile 5 Themes :CAB Vs TSk

Hi,
I'm trying to create a theme for a Dopod 838 Pro ( HTS Herems/TyTN ).
All I want is for the top and bottom bars to be red, all font to be white, and have my custom image insterted, so it loks right when flipped.
I don't want to have to screw around with XML files, if can be avoided.
So, What i've done is, got my hands onto a theme that has the attributes that I'm after.
It comes in TSK format.
So I opened the file with OCP cab manger, extracted it, substituted the images for my own and rebundled the file as a CAB.
Well, I did think it would work.
I was wrong
What is different between a CAB and TSK file ?
Why can't Cab Manager save them and have it operate as it was before.
?
cab == windows mobile install program
tsk == a theme file
the bolts and nuts are just different
@rudegar: actually a theme file is a cab file only
@twinair: WM treats tsk files as "special" cabs. when u select a tsk, apart from installing the underlying cab, it also does a few other things that control the skinning behaviour in wm. Search for "basehue" in the forum...

New wm6-theme: Pirates of the Caribbean

Here to look and download
That is briliant!
THX
littld said:
That is briliant!
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Thank you.
Edit: Little Changes in the design...animelover told me, that jack isn´t good to see. Also a new pocket cm with kira knightly, a modified comm manger background and a modified nem menu background.
new welcomehead
Here is a welcomehead.96 (bootscreen) for those, who have no prophet. Look at your own welcomehead´s name in windows, and give this file the same name (welcomehead-96.png or welcomehead96.png....), make a backup of your file and replace it with the new.
After some questions:
Pocket CM Theme is not for version 0.16, only 0.15
Thx for so many downloads until today. Don´t forget, that you need to download all files for the installation. I couldn´t put them all in one folder.
spiderman theme
im knew to this and im havin trouble putting the spiderman theme on my mobile device
computerkid23 said:
im knew to this and im havin trouble putting the spiderman theme on my mobile device
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There are some steps to do:
First use total commander and search for *.png- and *.brn-files in windows on your ppc. Mark them all and unmark in the properties "Read only". It takes a little while, then the write protection of your files is removed. Look at the name of our own welcomehead in windows and give the welcomehead from spiderman-theme-folder the same name. Sometimes they have different names like welcomehead96 or welcomehead.96 and so on. Copy all your downloaded *.png, *.brn and *.tsk-files files into windows. The ring must be taken to Windows/Ring. If you have a touch-like dialer, you can also use the dialer files. The usual wm6 dialer cannot be styled with these files, i heard from another user. The best is, to make a copy of your old files, if you want to replace them sometimes. Make a soft-reset and look, if your cube looks in the new style. If not, go into registry: HKLM/Software/HTC and look into your folder "Biotouch"/"Biotouch", what´s the path for the files there. It must be \Windows\A01.brn... not \Ext_Rom\A01.brn... I integrated a Biotouch.reg into the download folders. Compare the entries with your biotouch.reg. If you have the same entries, you can replace it with my file. Otherwise you must rename your paths manually from Ext-Rom to Windows. So your pocket pc read the windows files. The today theme can be selected in Start/Settings/ Today.
If you have pocket cm until version 0.15, you can take the cmt-file into your folder Program files/ Pocket CM and choose this theme in the program. Poicket CM 0.16 is not supported.
It´s a little work, but if you have done it once, you can use other themes in the same way.

REQ: Original .tsk Theme files

can someone please upload all the original tsk theme files (ie: guava bubbles etc)
Also, where do u recommend a site to download tsk files that are compatible with Diamond?
QVGA tsk files dont work with diamond and Littlethemes' VGA files seem to be problematic, either they somehow dun fit (too large) or the bottom and top bars dont change colour
http://www.down4v.com
This site has many .tsk file for diamond, also there are original .tsk. U can download from there

Woot! Changing default icons in WM6.1

First of all, the start menu icon
i got help from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2271995&postcount=8
and u can see how i got it on my BA
Want it??
the file is attached too. (signed already)
rename the file as shellres.96.dll
and paste this file in ur \Windows folder in ur device
Ofcourse u have to make a backup of originall shellres.96.dll too
Njoy this nice gray start menu icon
MORE ICONS ON THE WAY, I AM STILL DISCOVERING bout the icon changing thingi.
POST UR ICONS IN "PNG" with transparent background and in a multiple of 8 width and height that is 16x16, 24x24, 64x64, 128x128, 256x256.
so that i may get more time in modding rather in finding
GL all and happy modding. Atlast folder icon changing will work
Step 2, Changing the default folder icons
here are they
EDIT: the resource hacker is showing the folder icons in two pairs (16x16 and 32x32). If i am gonna replace one, the whole icon group gets changed. so uptill here no luck. will some body help me making a dll file with two icons (one for 16x16 and other for 32x32)
One small note,
the complete name of the file being replaced is shellres.96.dll.0409.mui
The reason I am making this comment is because depending on the rom (WWE or any other country ID), this might change. For instance, WWE is 0409, but I believe that German was 040C.
Other than that, good post. Let us know when you are able to change the system folders.
the mui exists there for localization thingi
I have used shellres.96.dll, the one i have pasted here and the screenshot is of my BA's. So I say authentic. I havent tried ur method since i am going fine
Now about the folders, the problem comes with pointing two icons in same icondump (i-e i need to have a file (like shell32.dll in windows for PC) which should only contain 32x32 folder icon (normal) and 16x16 icon (small). I dont know how to make such icon resource files. I have all PNG sets for my desired icons. I straight away convert them through an activeX based converter. Then THE PROBLEM IS ABOUT DUMPING TWO .ICO FILES IN ONE .ICO

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