Hello - I am using the Kavana 6.1 ROM with the default sliding screen. I would like to use a photo collage for my background image, however the screen fonts are too white and bright for it. I have adjusted the image as much as I can to still be viewable and it helps a little.
I would like to know if there is anyway to change the color of the display fonts on the home screen - e.g. change the clock and other text to a darker color or have them outlined in shadow so they stand out against my background.
Thank you.
Mordred said:
Hello - I am using the Kavana 6.1 ROM with the default sliding screen. I would like to use a photo collage for my background image, however the screen fonts are too white and bright for it. I have adjusted the image as much as I can to still be viewable and it helps a little.
I would like to know if there is anyway to change the color of the display fonts on the home screen - e.g. change the clock and other text to a darker color or have them outlined in shadow so they stand out against my background.
Thank you.
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you can change font color in the scheme.xml files using hex color codes. As for as i know, you can't add a shadow though. the scheme file will change the font color for the whole homescreen, not indivivual text, so you have to choose a color for all text on there.
If you search, you can also find some apps( for phone and for pc) that will change the font color for you plus all the other colors you want to change.
thank you very much.
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HI,
I like the default home screen that comes with the Cavalier (sorry). However, I changed the background image and the fonts do not show very well. I would like to change the font color and the highlight font color. I need the font color in white and the highlighted font in blue (not dark blue).
I'm not familiar with the .xml programming; however, if anyone can help me to change these two parameters on the HTC.Home.xml, I would be really happy.
Is it possible to do these changes? Will I need a special Editor for changing the code? or could it be done with a common application?
Regards,
REY
ranma_st said:
HI,
I like the default home screen that comes with the Cavalier (sorry). However, I changed the background image and the fonts do not show very well. I would like to change the font color and the highlight font color. I need the font color in white and the highlighted font in blue (not dark blue).
I'm not familiar with the .xml programming; however, if anyone can help me to change these two parameters on the HTC.Home.xml, I would be really happy.
Is it possible to do these changes? Will I need a special Editor for changing the code? or could it be done with a common application?
Regards,
REY
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change the background image in picture and video and adjust the transparency so that u can see the font
I have searched and found a lot of threads about this but haven't found anyone posting a easy way to change the TF3D font color and especially the today screen which seems to be different than the other tab screens.
I now have AnX1 Nature's Grace v1.0 theme which gives a white font but I would like to use a light colored background from Rotastrain's panoramic background thread, so I would have to change to black font in order for everything to be readable. Anyone has any ideas?
Hey guys I just got a great tip from an anonymous email. Picture of a Samsung Focus possibly running Mango.
http://windowsphonedaily.blogspot.com/2011/04/is-mango-in-wild-new-picture-of-focus.html
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that pic is out of focus.
my question is...what theme are they using? I have a focus and theres no blue that looks that dark on my screen (and there was a before pic too)
did they do the hack to set custom colors?
speaking of which, a full color wheel for custom accent colors is something I hope MS adds
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speaking of which, a full color wheel for custom accent colors is something I hope MS adds
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After having custom colours, you start to realise why MS hasn't added this.
Only certain colours work well with the tiles with the white text, anything too light and the text can't be read, anything too dark and the theme text can't be viewed on the dark background like on the volume display.
Sure you could change tile fonts to black but that looks unprofessional with the black background and white text everywhere else.
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After having custom colours, you start to realise why MS hasn't added this.
Only certain colours work well with the tiles with the white text, anything too light and the text can't be read, anything too dark and the theme text can't be viewed on the dark background like on the volume display.
Sure you could change tile fonts to black but that looks unprofessional with the black background and white text everywhere else.
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true...I didn't think about that. But at the very least, I hope they add more options. There are several options but only a handful that I find I like...there are certainly more colors that would work
Can someone explain to me how Fade and Gradient fill styles are meant to work please? As far as I can see, neither produces results I would expect.
For example, open up the advanced parameters on a progress bar and specify the "fill mode other color" as, say, white. Then try changing the colour under the fill mode or the foreground colour - no change to the widget colour.
With Gradient fill, all I want to do is go from opaque white to transparent white but Zooper decides to get there it needs to go through yellow!
I'm either not understanding how the UI is meant to work here or these options are really busted. Anyone able to offer any help?
Example of the gradient problem is attached.
Jangla said:
Can someone explain to me how Fade and Gradient fill styles are meant to work please? As far as I can see, neither produces results I would expect.
For example, open up the advanced parameters on a progress bar and specify the "fill mode other color" as, say, white. Then try changing the colour under the fill mode or the foreground colour - no change to the widget colour.
With Gradient fill, all I want to do is go from opaque white to transparent white but Zooper decides to get there it needs to go through yellow!
I'm either not understanding how the UI is meant to work here or these options are really busted. Anyone able to offer any help?
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I have the exact same problem but unfortunately I don't know how to fix it.
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I have the exact same problem but unfortunately I don't know how to fix it.
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Yeah damn things been like this for a while. Shows some yellowish color for me usually. Mess with the foreground/background colors and it'll work right. Just have to F with it.
HSV gradient instead of a RGB gradient ?
I have the same issue and then googled a little. After reading these two pages "perbang.dk/rgbgradient" and "bensouthgate.com/p/12_3_13.php" (I can not post link now), I think the gradient is based on HSV and not RGB; the later seems however be more intuitive and correspond to what I imagine for a gradient from white to another color.
I don't think we can code a RGB gradient from the Advanced Parameter because some functions are currently missing.
If anyone has an idea...
Not sure if this is the right thread for it, but HTC themes is really weird to work out to get everything you want.
So if I create my own theme, I can't choose my own keyboard or dialer color. The materialistic colors follows the image of the picture unless the image is black, then the colors are pink for some reason.
I can't mix and match either, for example, I want the clock from Tilt, but I don't want its blue colors. I can't change those.
Or if I make my own theme, the default color for my keyboard and dialer are white.
The best I got at mix matching was I downloaded a theme caled Iron Man S6 and got a yellow-black keyboard, then I changed my materialistic colors to Tilt to get Blue colors instead of Yellow. It didn't change my keyboard which is good, but I still have a white dialer and the default clock. Also, Tilt was the only one I could use, cause all the other default themes don't have a black background on the drawer, including custom colors which is really dumb. So, to get a black background, I'm stuck with blue material.
If I go into Personalize and scroll down to Change Keyboard color or Change Dialer color, it only gives two options. The theme i'm on or Default. Why can't it let me choose keyboard colors from different themes? Is this even possible?
Themes is really annoying in that aspect. Sense 6 had many themes auto installed, so I could change the materialistic colors without changing anything else. Also it had a great black keyboard instead of the yucky white one the sense 7 default has.