I got the background on all my tabs now, slider centered, everything looking great...now I have 2 things I want to change.
1 - How can I change the phones default font (which is a bluish color) to white??
2 - Which manila files control the MSG tab, the weather tab, and the settings tab? With my background its hard for me to see the things on those tabs(the default font is not helping at all here) and I would like to change those manila files...or just delete them and let the factory ones populate in from my rom. Does anyone know or have a breakdown somewhere of which monila file controls which tab?
Really if I could change the font color on my msg tab, weather tab, settings tab, etc......I would only change the MSG tab's background image back to default...makes the messages much easier to read.
Thanks for your help!
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I find that when I 'Use this picture as a background' (WM6, Dopod D810) the image appears but it's always 'whitewashed'. By that, I mean it's faded to white - I'd prefer to see the photo in it's full colour with no faded look.
I'm certain that in the early days of WM5 this used to work fine?
Any ideas would be appreciated
use picture & video viewer to find the picture you want to use as your background. tap and hold for the context menu and select "Set as Today Background..." a screen will appear where you can select transparency. set it to 0% and you should be in business!!
Thanks cortezzi, I'll give it a go.
Any idea of XnView Pocket does it? I can't seem to find a 'set as wallpaper' option.
*can't find it*
Also tried out a trial version of Resco Photo Viewer and although it allows me to Save > Use as Home Screen then set the viewable image area and transparency (which I set to 0), however the new wallpaper never appears despite receiving the message 'Picture was correctly set as Today wallpaper'.
Settings > Today shows the background picture is currently set to 'Custom Wallpaper'
Is there a registry hack I can do to stop the default Today settings from adding transparency to new background images?
I had the same problem.. In my case it was caused by the theme I had installed. Try a different theme or modify the one you use.
as helpful as ever....thanks blitzwurst
i tried using a plain colour theme with spb menu but any custom today backgrounds i choose still come out with transparency. how exactly do you suggest i do this? i'm certain that it used to work fine (no transparency) under WM5....
i'm just eager to make use of the great backgrounds another xda user suggested on the Slide2Unlock topic (I think) at http://www.zuned.be !
That Zune site is pretty nice!
In my case I had to get a theme (.tsk) editor and embed the background I wanted into the Theme as opposed to selecting an image from the device to use as a background.
no worries, i might do the same...any recc's on a good theme editor to use?
does it run on the device or on a pc?
Are there any tweaks to change the colour of the font displaying Missed Calls/Calendar/Date/Alarm etc on the Home Screen (or even better, to have an opaque box behind the text)?
I have some nice photos I want to use as backgrounds, but they are mostly white so I cant see any text!
Cheers,
Doc
same for me... i wanna use a more lighter background picture. But with the white letters its not really useful.
Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.
janp said:
Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.
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thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!
Hey nickaat,
nickaat said:
thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!
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could you please tell me if this tool works for you and your HD? I want to change my home screen font color too but i still didn`t found a way...
Thanks,
Brad
I've look also for the exactly same thing and I've reached to the following conclusion: you can't do anything about it.
I've tried tons of programs, registry editing, hexa editing etc. Spend days on the issue. Nada, nothing. I even some some experienced users saying that it can be changed almost any colors on tabs, exept the ones above.
LE: I think the most closest possibility for us to obtain this effect is to manually edit the wallpaper and place some dark boxes where the text is written, but this means that the dark boxes will apear on every other tab also.
hello...I have tried this UItweaker on my touch hd...
I tried the one to change the today screen font color...
and spinning wheel of death occured...
so I killed the UITweaker but the font color indeed changed
I soft reseted and changed it back - again spinning wheel of death - and after having back to nromal I removed it because it seems like not the program I want to my mess my phone...since it seems the device does not like it....
and anyway..i think that after having this program my google mpas started to be stupid - I dont know if it really is because of this - but now the google maps show My Location as a venezuela...that is not true, I am in middle europe...WTF I want it work again normally...
this sucks
so if you want try it, it changes the color, but it is not working flawleslly and I hate that...
The UI Tweaker only messed up my other colors, but doesen't changed the color I wanted.
Take care using it.
I also had issues with UI Tweaker, I somehow changed the background of the buttons on the home page (Phone, Programs, x button etc) to pink and couldnt change it back!
I remember seeing a Russian Rom that had black text on the home screen, so I do think its possible.
My workaround for the moment is to edit the background pic and draw an opaque box where the info is displayed.
I think it looks quite cool! It does take a bit of messing around (trial and error) to get it in the right place, and I still have to add a few more (date/alarm)... work is quite busy atm so I dont really have the time!
If I do find another way, I will post it here.
As I said, the only problem for this workaround is that in all other tabs, the background will apear with the boxes from the HOME tab.
I wonder if it is a way of having different wallpapers for each tab.
Must search that.
LE: Found that: Change wallpapers. It gives a solution how to have a different background picture for the rest of the tabs.
so simple
go to settings > home screne > scroll to color scheme & select > scroll to : text: black" then select done
Hello,
Can anyone please tell me how to change the program icon size from the launcher tab (not the background squares, but the actual icon)?
I hate some of the stock icons for my programs / scripts, so I replaced them with different icons using the registry, but for some reason it shrinks them down to something like 32x32 or 64x64, the default size everyone has. My plan is to get rid of the background box altogether and go with like a 128x128 icon if possible.
I am not sure if there is a registry setting I am missing or if you have to hex edit a manilla file. I am open to either.
Thanks,
Josh
Not possible...
I may be wrong, because whenever anyone is explaining why something can't be done, they're usually interupted by the person doing it! I think you'll find the image size is hard-coded into Manila. Whatever size you make the image file, it will always be stretched to 'fill' the picture box on the launcher tab
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me which of the manilla files i need to edit to change the text colour for the manilla (TF3D2.1) tabs.
I've searched about and found most of them, but i still need the following....
- settings tab
- calendar tab
- home tab alarm time
- home tab call history and calendar link.
Thanks in advance.
For anyone who is interested here are the files i have found so far and what they control.
47dd6acd_manila - font messaging tab
6c422ab4_manila - font people tab
190f7f60_manila - font photos and videos tab
252e3f90_manila - font Music tab
72ac571f_manila - font weather tab
320a766a_manila - font Internet tab
5e003d37_manila - font email tab
0685c809_manila - font calender - Day view ONLY
can anyone help me with this???
Hi Karandras24,
which help do you need?
Cheers Mike,
I have already sorted it.
font colour change on people screen in voda tp2 std customisation
hi,
just got a touch pro 2 on vodafone uk and have a problem with their customisation :
on the people screen when you run your finger down the small people icons on the right hand side all you see is a black box which masks the persons name - obviously a quick and dirty customisation by vodafone just reversing the colours of text and background without working through the implications on menus properly. (see attached pic)
as i quite like the vodafone colourscheme bar this does anyone know of a quick hack to change the colour of the persons name to say white JUST in this box (otherwise it will disappear in to white backgrounds elsewhere)
TIA
ian
karandras24 said:
Cheers Mike,
I have already sorted it.
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Would you please share your findings? I'm in the middle of working on a light-color theme and I've had no luck in finding out the manila files that relate to the font color for all tabs.
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Would you please share your findings? I'm in the middle of working on a light-color theme and I've had no luck in finding out the manila files that relate to the font color for all tabs.
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The files i found are listed above.
As far as sorting it....
I ditched the vodafone uk rom and went with a custom rom, which had white text (vodafone rom's default is black text).
All i wanted was to change the text to white, so it served my purpose.
I probably should have been a bit clearer about that when i said i had sorted it.
Greetings.
I wanted to have the source of manila 2.1 in black. Is there any .cab to do it or tell me how? Thank you.
do a search on either the diamond or blackstone sections (can't remember which it's on) for "blackfont.cab" and you'll find one.
Then I looked and found nothing for Manila 2.1. Thank you.
I am using a ROM which I mostly like (Elegancia) but on the email tab, the preview layout style is set so that the header section background is dark black while the body section is white. This makes reading the sender name and subject very difficult since the text is dark grey or blue against black.
Is there any way or utility to change the style of this email preview tab, so that the header section background is also white like the body, as I've seen in other ROMs (like Energy) ? Or alternatively, any way to set the style back to the HTC default of just regular text against the wallpaper background, with no little rectangle?
Can either of these things be done either with a configuration utility or through the resigtry, without having to change ROMs?
Please help, thanks...!