Whenever I create a new theme, no matter what color I tell the fonts to be in the drop down of the start list, they always come out white.

I don't know why this is.. anyone have similar issues when creating new themes

 

I have been having the same problem as well and gave up on trying to create light color themes. I am posting here to see what kind of reply you will get about this.

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Frenchy

         

Don't know why they always are, but I use Tweaks2k2 to change the font to something darker. You could also edit the theme yourself and change it.

   

Wow, thanks.. I thought it was just me, could not figure it out for the life of me.. and if you can't figure it out I don't feel so bad.

ps.. your Wifi guide is great, thanks for taking the time to post it.

 

I do use Microsoft theme editor change the font to black or dark blue and they still show as white.

 

Microsoft's theme editor allows you to change the font color for most everything EXCEPT the fonts in the drop down list. Its not you, its Microsoft (being stupid as usual) and the software.

Is there a work around?

 

Yea...use a different theme editor Seriously, I dont know of any work-around, though maybe someone else does. Unless Microsoft updates their theme editor, your best bet is to use a different one. I dont know of any other freeware ones, only ones that cost some dough.

Try ThemeBuilder 2003, it's free. Create pictures with the specs listed here: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/prod...torial.html?en

Alternatively, you can try to get SPB's Extended Theme Generator to work; in my experience, it does not do anything at all, and the Microsoft Theme Generator 2002 remains unchanged. Good luck.ThemeBuilder 2003 - freeware!!

M$ Theme Generator does not allow you to customize the Start Menu text color for Today Themes that it produces. A registry setting on the PPC can be used to control the color for themes lacking this setting.

The key in question is: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\39. If it does not exist, create a new key, type Binary and enter the hexadecimal color equivalent. The format must follow this convention: rr gg bb 00. To get black color you would enter 00 00 00 00.

Another alternative route for fixing this is FunnySnake's TKCreater. It's a small theme editor that runs on your PPC itself. I don't know that I would ever use it for creating themes from scratch, but for font color editing it's a good choice. Best of all, because you are running it on your Axim, you'll be able to tell instantly if a color choice really is good or not.

It's also free and you can get it from FunnySnake's website. http://www.funnysnake.com

Only the extended is free, the Pro is $14.95, but worth a look, thanks for the info.

 

Ps... pro / or not, it still stays white. The only thing that will work is the Reg tweak and not worth the hassle for a theme.

 

No, TKCreater works quite well at changing the menu color on a theme. In fact, with nice little freeware apps like TKCreater out there, I don't know why anyone even bothers to mention the Reg tweak anymore.

TKCreater runs on the device, not on the PC to create the themes. I don't want to create and edit on the X50v, so it wont work in this case.