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By Tim Mecking‎

This document is about optical enhancement of OS/2 and eComStation. There may be a functional enhancements as side effect. But functional enhancements are not in the focus of this document.

In this release there is a bundled application called "Theme Creator". More applications may be contained in future releases.

There is only the Window Themes chapter completed, yet. Other chapters will follow.

Authors and Contributors

This document, the themecreator, and the radio button bitmap of the spflat theme is written/created by Tim Mecking ("facelift@mecking.net").

The dtaltair and the dtbbox theme are created by Dorothee Tops.

eComStation ThemeMrg Window Themes

This chapter shows how to build and install themes for eComstation ThemeMgr.

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Requirements

  • eComStation 1.0 or eComStation 1.1.
  • �ThemeMgr (*).

�* IconEdit (*) or any other pixel oriented graphic application supporting multi page os2 bitmaps. �* ResMgr by Martin Lafaix (*) �* Resource Compilter RC.EXE (*) �* System Editor E.EXE (*), Extended Editor EPM.EXE (*) or any other ascii editor.

(*) included in eComStation 1.0 and eComStation 1.1

Working with Themes - Command line based

Here we discuss in detail the creation & installation of a new theme based on an existing one and how to uninstall schemes from Thememgr. If you are not interested in the details take a look at "Working With Themes - Theme Creator Based".

A Theme is created by creating the following 3 files:

�* .RES File

  • �.BMP File
  • �.IDX File

If you have created the files, you can install them to make them available in the Theme Manager.

You certainly can also uninstall themes from the Theme Manager.

Creating the .RES file