New theme for vista?

[smidley]

Is there going to be a new version all together or just a new theme for game ex when vista comes out? I was just curious. Thanx guys!

[headkaze]

I was actually going to knock up a Vista MCE theme for GameEx, but I don't have Vista to get the graphics. I need to get a hold of the ehres.dll file that contains all the MCE resources. If you can help me locate the file I can make the theme.

[hansolo77]

Hey HK, can you hack dll's? Over at thegreenbutton theres some guys trying to hack the dll on Intel Viiv media centers to try and get MCE's online spotlight to also show Viiv-only links. So far, it works enough to show a few of them, but they don't all work. It comes up saying you need a Viiv PC. Apparently it's doing a dll check, and they're looking for somebody who can hack one to try and get a fix going. The thread is here.

[Ricci]

God only knows, with the sloppy coding of Bill's boys nowadays, there are jillions of those damn DLL's, so there should be some way......

[headkaze]

It depends on what you mean by "hack a dll". ehres.dll is a dll that contains all the resource files (graphics/icons/sounds) for MCE. There is software that allows you to rip the resources out of dll's. So to make a genuine looking Vista theme it would be much easier to do it this way than to do a whole bunch of screen captures.

[hansolo77]

I'm not sure what exactly they're looking for. All I can say is check out the link I posted.