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emil73
2nd August 2005, 12:23 PM
Canīt seem to remember how to change the "shadowness" i.e. the clearness of the choosen beckground picture. I know this is possible but just canīt figure out how..

Thankful for help!
emil73
2nd August 2005, 10:20 PM
Anyone that knows... Still need to find out how to do!
vijay555
3rd August 2005, 05:09 PM
You mean by creating a new background for use with Today > Theme? Just use a paint program for that.

Otherwise, there's registry hacks available to change the colour of the lines on some screens, i think tweak2knet can do it.

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emil73
3rd August 2005, 06:31 PM
Actually what I mean is when you go to settings>Today and then choose a picture as the background. There is a way that you can change the clearness of that picture once you choosen it. Just canīt remember how to do it. Its very simple and you donīt need a twitch or anything to do it...

Hope that somebody knows what Iīm talking about before I start to think that Iīm hallucinating! :wink:
rob61280
3rd August 2005, 06:58 PM
dont worry emil73 your not going mad lol!
open the picture using the pictures program (its built in to all pocket pc's I think?) then choose set as today screen, a dialogue then lets you set the transparency level.

hope thats some help?
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emil73
3rd August 2005, 11:24 PM
THANK YOU ROB!!!
For giving back my sanity...
Works great.
rob61280
4th August 2005, 12:41 AM
No problem :)
I think MS theme generator will let you do the same when creating themes with a pc.

tweaks2k is also good if you want to change the txt/lines colour on the today screen.

R
Impossible
4th August 2005, 02:51 AM
slightly related to this,

Does anyone know how to change the colour of the text on the start menu?

On some of my light themes the text is white, when it would be easier to see when it was black.


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vijay555
4th August 2005, 06:33 PM
try cetuner to do theme editing on your device.

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emil73
4th August 2005, 11:51 PM
Just tried out the MS theme generator and just LOVED IT! But there is a bíg but... Trying to copy it to the device I realized that the theme generator program only worls with Windows Mobile 2002 only.
Is this right or can I find another version for the 2003 edition?!?!?!

I just have to get that....
joedoe
5th August 2005, 12:01 AM
It does work for WM2003 too.
jeffharris
5th August 2005, 06:14 AM
YOu can use the Theme editor with WM2003, you just need to copy the theme file you just created manually to the PDA.