How to cook a theme that works properly?

[odyseus]

Hi to All,
I've been playing around with ROM's, cooking my own etc but there's one thing I can't get right..and that's getting a theme to correctly load..

At the moment in the OPeratorPKG folder, I am modifying the line in config_operator.txt and changing the HTC.tsk to the one I want ie

EXEC:\WINDOWS\cusTSK.exe \WINDOWS\WM Black 6.1.tsk then of course adding WM Black 6.1.tsk into the same folder.

But the theme never quite loads properly?, when you tap start the drop down menu is still green??

The only way to get the theme to look correct is to re-select it under Settings/Today

plus I can not get the top and bottom bars to go jet black.

I tried adding the following line to config_operator.txt and adding into the folder Glossy Black Bars.exe

EXEC:\WINDOWS\Glossy Black Bars.exe

but on hard reset, I get an error saying Glossy Black Bars.exe not found? - even though it is correctly installed in the windows directory??

Is there a correct or better way to ensure my phone hard resets to the correct theme I select during the cooking process??

Cheers

John

[Confused Stu]

I had this problem when I was cooking - every time I set cusTSK to install a theme it coloured the bars but left the home screen screen with the Windows green circles.

The only way I found to fix this was to replace the wm61_stwater file in the SYS/base_dpi_96_resh_240_resv_320 folder in the kitchen with the one from the theme I wanted. If you take the .tsk theme, rename the extension to .cab and then you can use a cab editor to extract the stwater and put them into the kitchen. The only problem is that this also changes the background on the inital screen alignment and other setup screens, so I had to change the blankbanner.96.gif, myinfo.96.gif and complete.96.gif files too to avoid the initial post-flash screens look a mess!

Good luck, and if there's an easier way, please let me know!!

Stu