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Originally Posted by rctoyguy
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I am using an image called mine.jpg as the desktop background, and an image called blue.jpg as the start menu background. I created a new image called tdywater.gif (it wanted one in the folder with the other images) and did not check "VGA compatible" on the last page - I was able to successfully create a theme - but when it is viewed on my Axim, the entire screen is blue. (tdywater.gif is an all blue image - "save as" from blue.jpg)
Perhaps I should have redone mine.jpg as tdywater.gif? But I want that to be a full color image, not a .gif file.
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Just some general comments on theme images which may help. However, I never used Theme Generator much so I can't be of much specific help there.
A standard PPC theme (as opposed to the 'extended' themes generated by third party applications like Dashboard and Pocket Plus) is comprised of three files which are housed in a .tsk file. This .tsk file is just a renamed cab file.
If you want to check it out yourself, just open a tsk file in Winzip or other zip utility. No need to rename it to .cab or anything.
0stwater.002 - This is the image used for the menu.
tdywater.001 - this is the today screen image
Both of these can be jpg or png or gif files. I don't know if bmp's will work or not, but they
have to be named this (including the extension) in the tsk file in order for Windows to recognize it as valid theme. IIRC, Theme Generator requires the gif extension regardless of the type of file it is, although I don't remember for sure.
xxxx.000 - this is the file which contains all the other info about the theme (background color, font, etc.) xxxx can be just about any name I believe. It is a binary file, so you'll need a hex editor if you want to mess with it. Basically, the meat of the file is some indexes and associated values. These values are what you change to change the colors and other attributes of the theme. The trick is to know what index controls what attribute and what values correspond to what effects on the screen. I haven't seen a list, so you'd have to find one or figure it out yourself using trial and error. I don't recommend trying to manipulate this file as its much easier to just use a theme editor.
So it makes sense that your background screen is blue, because your tdywater.001 file was the blue.jpg file you started with and that is the today screen image. You need to tell TG that mine.jpg is your today screen image and blue.jpg is your menu image. If TG wants gif files only, you should be able to just rename mine.jpg to mine.gif without having to make the actual file type conversion and it should work in TG. Again, since I don't use TG, you'll have to confirm that.
Pocket McDeb's website has a nice page explaining the different image sizes required for different PPC screen resolutions. Check it out
here.
HTH!
