Knowing that WAD2/WA3 themes can be a little daunting to set up (especially if you've never done it before), I created a cab to do all the dirty work for you. All that is required to have jdume's basic theme up and running is to:
1) Install Wisbar Advance Desktop. The WAD2 Release Candidate 4 cab that jdume posted should last you until July 31, after that you'll have to upgrade to a new Release Candidate or buy the program (if it is released).
2) Install Wisbar Advance 3. At the final phase of the installation, you will be asked if you want to start Wisbar.
Choose no (uncheck the box), and then hit "finish installation."
3) Install "Diamond Theme - by jdume." This cab contains all the necessary files, registry entries, etc. to get your theme ready to go. You're device will reset, and you should be ready to start customizing all of your people, programs, etc (sorry, you still have to do that part yourself
).
A couple of notes:
- The theme cab is large, and has to copy A LOT of files to various locations on your device. As such, it will take a long time to run. Like 10-12 minutes on my device. This is normal, and if you have set up the theme manually before, you will know that it takes quite some time to copy all the files to their respective directories.
- I've tested the cab on a fresh hard reset, with nothing except WAD2 and WA3 installed. It is entirely possible that you could encounter conflicts with your particular setup.
- The directory locations in this cab are hard coded for standard English setups. As a result, this will not work on non-English devices. For example, if you're storage card doesn't show up as "Storage Card" in your file explorer, this will not work.
- This only installs the files and settings necessary for jdume's core theme. Any additional programs still need to be installed separately.
- The cab *should* be fully uninstallable.
If anyone is interested, here is exactly what is included in this cab:
- All relevant theme/graphic folders created by jdume will be installed to their appropriate, default locations.
- All necessary config files and registry entries will be put in place to minimize setup after installation. Your device *should* look just like the screenshots. You will just need to set up your contacts, weather location, and other personal preferences. WAD2 and WA3 should also now be set to start on device reset.
- Changes your standard device theme to a Diamond theme. WA3 still reads some info from your Windows Mobile theme, so this is necessary. The cab doesn't use a tsk file to change your theme. It directly updates your registry with system color information, and copies tdywater.gif and stwater.gif to /windows. I did also place a copy of diamond.tsk on your storage card, so you can change back and forth if desired.
- Copies the Diamond welcomehead.96.png to /Windows. This is the last splash-screen you see before WM starts up, seen here:
- There are probably a few other, minor things I'm leaving out, but that is the gist of it.
Hopefully no complications arise from the use of this cab, but as usual, I take no responsibility for it. Use at your own risk. I just wanted to make a simple, 3 step process for people who wanted to try out jdume's theme, but may have been confused by the setup. Sorry for the novel, but I was hoping to avoid questions down the road. Hopefully this helps someone, because I just spent like 20 minutes typing this
With all the server issues we're having lately, I decided to post this to Rapidshare.de. Not my first choice, but hopefully this isn't a problem for anyone. Feel free to mirror elsewhere.
Diamond Theme - by jdume
Good work jdume!!!!