It looks like parts of the theme use constants that may point back to Windows GUI elements. If this is true, does anyone have a list of those constants?
As an example, back in my VB6 days there was a constant called “ButtonText” that would map to the equivalent system color. Using this technique makes it possible to make the theme match system colors.
Why eM doesn’t have a standard Windows 7 looking theme is mind boggling to me. Not to mention extremely frustrating.
How can such a feature-rich program be missing so much basic functionality?
I also tried to create a theme. What a mess!!! Because of disliking “too Dark and too White” themes I have created this. I hope it works not only on my client.
Maybe some others will add it to their client. You can download it @:
Hi All,
I have just started to use eM Client 7 and I think it is really good.
I am using the ‘Dark Theme’ which I really like apart from the colour of the highlighted line that shows what email I am on. (This is when I am on the main screen)
Currently the lines of emails alternate between very dark grey and dark grey with the ‘highlighted’ line that I am on in ‘black’ which is very hard to distinguish. It is this highlighted line that I want to change the colour of.
I have saved the Dark theme to my desktop and opened it it ‘Notepad’ to edit but I don’t know whereabouts the particular line is that I need to change as the program is quite long with so many colours associated to various different bits of the display. (I know I can probably find it by playing around and changing one colour at a time but this would take hours of experimenting/editing, saving and importing etc.)
Can someone point me in the right direction of the particular line that I want to change?
(I am OK with playing around with different colours as I have seen the Hex colour chart from a previous thread by Bryan Kilburn.)
Well I’ve just spent about 6 hours playing around with changing various colors, saving the style and importing them back. I have found the area that I wanted to change. It was in the ‘MainFormGridSelection’ area but there was a starting gradient color and an end gradient color that I had to change.
I found it best to pick on a color and ‘replace all’ with another one to see what effect it had. Very time consuming but it eventually worked.
I have now got the basic ‘Dark Theme’ with the emails highlighted in green when I select them in the main grid. I also have the buttons color change to green when the mouse hovers over them.
I spent hours and hours creating 25 new themes and standardizing/commenting them, and working with the support people to fix the known issues with the themes and xml. But, they wouldn’t ever get back to me on how to get the software working (kept hanging while trying to sync a folder), and it was so buggy that I finally just went back to Windows Mail.
How do you get the screenshot of your theme attached to the file? My updated theme is just blank on the theme picker with a big question mark instead of a picture.
It looked very complicated but it wasn’t too bad at all with your explanation on what to do with your encoding link.
I made a ‘Printscreen’ of my Theme, edited it in ‘Paint’, saved it on my desktop as a png and imported it into your base64 encoding link. I then copied the RAW file into my Theme in ‘Notepad’ at the end where the ‘Screenshot’ part was and saved it as an emtheme to import back into em Client (with the picture!). It all worked fine!
I am currently having the 30 day trial but I have been so impressed with em client that I will definitely buy the licence as I want more than 2 email addresses.
(Not sure yet whether to pay the extra for the unlimited help and support for any additional versions though.)
