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Old 03-30-05, 03:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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MS Theme generator Question, help!
Whenever I create a theme with MS Theme Generator, I cannot seem to be able to change the selection color of the start menu... It's always blue..... How can we change it?
In other words, in all themes created, on my axim when I tap the start menu, the selected item is highlighted in blue, how can I change this?
This also applies to the New menu in the task bar.
Thanxall.

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Old 03-30-05, 04:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The "selection" color or highlight color can not be set by a theme. It is controlled by a registry setting in the device. If you are not comfortable editing the registry or don't know how to make a back-up of it do not proceed!

Navigate to HKLM\System\SysColor. The value found there is a long sequence of hex-values for the various display elements. Each element consists of the Red-Green-Blue color pairs of letters/numbers and a "00" which serves as a separator. For example, 00 00 00 00 = black, FF FF FF 00 = white. The highlight color is at index 13 (beginning at 0). Change the color at that position by editing the RGB hex values. I think you will have to soft-reset to see the changes.
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Originally Posted by DoDoubleGeo
The "selection" color or highlight color can not be set by a theme. It is controlled by a registry setting in the device. If you are not comfortable editing the registry or don't know how to make a back-up of it do not proceed!

Navigate to HKLM\System\SysColor. The value found there is a long sequence of hex-values for the various display elements. Each element consists of the Red-Green-Blue color pairs of letters/numbers and a "00" which serves as a separator. For example, 00 00 00 00 = black, FF FF FF 00 = white. The highlight color is at index 13 (beginning at 0). Change the color at that position by editing the RGB hex values. I think you will have to soft-reset to see the changes.
Hey DoDoubleGeo, thankalot for your reply....
Is there any utility program like Tweak2k2 that can do this? It'll be much more easy....
Thanxalot though for the info.

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Originally Posted by The-CROW
Hey DoDoubleGeo, thankalot for your reply....
Is there any utility program like Tweak2k2 that can do this? It'll be much more easy....
Thanxalot though for the info.
Tweaks2k2 will do it. Just go to Tweak>System Colors and select Start Menu Font. The select whatever color you want.
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Old 03-31-05, 03:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The-CROW
Is there any utility program like Tweak2k2 that can do this? It'll be much more easy....
Sorry, I haven't looked at that program in while, but I don't remember it being one of its tweaks. There may a program out there that will do this for you, maybe ColorPicker. I remember trying that program some time ago and it wreaked havoc on my device.

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Tweaks2k2 will do it. Just go to Tweak>System Colors and select Start Menu Font. The select whatever color you want.
Are you sure? It sounds to me like you are talking about the font color and not the highlight color, which is what The-CROW is interested in.
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sbp has an extened theme add on for the Microsoft theme generator. I don't know if it will help but you can get it here.

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spb's Extended Theme plugin won't help in this area. I build skins for multiple SW packages and spb's PocketPlus is one I build for so I have experience using the plugin.
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Originally Posted by davrol
Tweaks2k2 will do it. Just go to Tweak>System Colors and select Start Menu Font. The select whatever color you want.
No man, I have tweak2k2 and it only changes the font color of the start menu... We want the selection color changed.
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Old 04-02-05, 11:35 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Greetings ~ I had the same problem, but Tweaks2k2 took care of everything. I am able to change the navigation bar as well as the bottom bar.
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Old 07-29-05, 03:27 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Just for future reference, in the x30h that I have the syscolor was found at HKLM\System\GWE and he was dead on with it being the 13th index to change the selection highlight in the start menu. Took me all night to find this tidbit and finally red is where it should be.

Also, I just found a list with what each index is for. Hoefully someone else might find it helpful in the future.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...stemColors.asp
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