Black Glass Bars in WM6??

[Jakaroe808]

Alright.. I have been playing with themes once again and thought someone here may be able to answer some questions for me.. Here's what I've got so far..

I have noticed black themes in WM6 acting a bit odd in WM6 (remaining flat without the new WM6 glass effect) Attached image below..

I recently put Tweaks2k2 back on my device and was playing with the WM5 colors.. I placed the slider on Black and boom.. Sweet black bars..

I also went back to the color key in the reg and noticed that nothing had changed.. BaseHue value still remained at 443 = Purple and all other values were still unaffected by all changes. Color or grayscale..

So I guess my question is what values is Tweaks2k2 changing to make these black bars.. I would like to make some new themes..

Any thoughts?

[agovinoveritas]

It is obviously a config issue. You can't have some colours glassy and some other not. For example, I had this cool Blue theme. Both top and bottom where glassy, however after upgrading to LVSW's newest ROM all of the sudden the top bar is flat while the bottom one is glossy still.

Damn.

[dkm00182]

With every WM6 Flavor I've been able to achieve this by changing the hklm\software\microsoft\color\basehue value to 160.

I generally use the Guava Bubbles theme then change the basehue reg key, red background and black glassy bars, I think it looks pretty spiffy.

[ChaoticDruid]

Hi, I dont know if you seen my thread on the true glossyblack in the reg hermes forum, but I was lookin how to achieve the glossy black.

You say you wanna make some new themes, what theme making software do you have? I have thememakerx nad thememker by mcdeb though Im not able to use them if you're interested, pm me(to Jakaroe808 only).

I haven't a clue what sets the glossy, if you take apart a mono black theme, and read the .ini in it, you should be able to get the values from there on the colors, but I dont know what is settin or removing the glossy, I was thinkin it was a setting in the .ini too for the glossy since some other themes lose the gloss too, but too many work on wm6 with gloss for it to be a setting in the .ini, I think.

Like I said, I haven't a clue, its all speculation, and Im not sure if either of those theme apps will directly modify the theme .ini or read it.

excuse my babbling, I do tend to run on

[ChaoticDruid]

With every WM6 Flavor I've been able to achieve this by changing the hklm\software\microsoft \color\basehue value to 160.


Edited:: you are correct, I was going by the screenshots, and it looked darker to me, but after instaling tweaks2k2 I see it does just set it to 160.

Maybe Im just overly picky, and it may not even be possible, but there is still a slight gray hue in the middle of the black bar, and it can be seen even more evident when for example one of the black glossy dialers is being used.

Thing is still, is not making it a true true black with the gloss, UItweaker sets em to solid black like the solid black themes have been, and it goes flat too.

[Jakaroe808]

Thanks much.. I have not tried using the 160 value but I guess that is all I need to know.. I was just confused because I had the black bars but the basehue value still remained 443.. Thanks..

I also use Thememaker X and then ThemeGenCE along with WinCE CabManager.
I have never used thememaker by mcdeb but it looks like a nice app..

[Jakaroe808]

another quick question.. OK the 160 value works although if I load the value into a tsk (manually in Cab manager) it gets rejected.. If I switch to the new theme the bars go black for a second and then gray.. If I check the reg the value is 123.. ??? why would the device reject the value?

[xultar]

Nevermind.

[Jakaroe808]

Well.. No.. But it looks like you have a nice WA setup there.. I was referring to the default WM6 interface themes..

[xultar]

Well.. No.. But it looks like you have a nice WA setup there.. I was referring to the default WM6 interface themes..

I gotcha. I forgot about that registry tweak trick.

[dbaser]

another quick question.. OK the 160 value works although if I load the value into a tsk (manually in Cab manager) it gets rejected.. If I switch to the new theme the bars go black for a second and then gray.. If I check the reg the value is 123.. ??? why would the device reject the value?

I decided to play with ThemeGenCE a bit and managed to make glassy black bars etc. I did, however, have to set the BaseHue to 160 in the registry. I kinda messed with the wmbe.tsk as a base so I won't post it since it belongs to someone else. :)

[cushcalc]

another quick question.. OK the 160 value works although if I load the value into a tsk (manually in Cab manager) it gets rejected.. If I switch to the new theme the bars go black for a second and then gray.. If I check the reg the value is 123.. ??? why would the device reject the value?

I have wondered about this too.

I like a theme in WM5 called Cyclic Black Bars (I think it was part of Molski's ROM package for Wizard) - very shiny black bars - when I install it in WM6 either on Wizard or my Tilt, it's shiny black bars alright, but no 3-D effect. When I look at that Registry value hklm\software\microsoft\color\basehue it is 123 as you noticed above.

I tried editing this theme in ThemeGenCE. I have not been successful in modifying it so the bars have 3-D. Maybe you would have more success as you are more experienced by far - I'm just starting to play with this.

I know this thread was real old so I don't know if any of you all will notice this - hope so.

[BenThon]

Black Bars !

Have a look here for an explanation : http://www.codeppc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10761

or here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1706271#post1706271

and here : http://www.codeppc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10730

or here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1630766#post1630766