{"id":445,"date":"2013-03-31T15:15:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T04:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=445"},"modified":"2013-03-31T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T04:15:31","slug":"theme-colours-in-windows-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/theme-colours-in-windows-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Colours in Windows \u2018Blue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in <a title=\"Quppa&#39;s Blog: Windows \u2018Blue\u2019 Build 9364 Observations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/windows-blue-build-9364-observations\/\">my earlier post<\/a>, the method for selecting theme (\u2018accent\u2019) colours in Windows \u2018Blue\u2019 build 9364 has changed from Windows 8 RTM. I\u2019m not going to bother looking too closely at the updates to the <a title=\"Quppa&#39;s Blog: Retrieving Windows 8 Theme Colours\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/retrieving-windows-8-theme-colours\/\">functions in UxTheme.dll<\/a> this early in the development process, but I did notice two new registry values in the key HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAccent: \u2018AccentColor\u2019 and \u2018StartColor\u2019. These are DWORD values that store the accent colour and background colour, respectively. The format is 0xAABBGGRR. The old \u2018ColorSet_Version3\u2019 value from Windows 8 is gone for obvious reasons. \u2018AccentId_v8.00\u2019 from Windows 8 is now \u2018MotionAccentId_v1.00\u2019, but it seems to serve the same purpose \u2013 indicating which background image is selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in my earlier post, the method for selecting theme (\u2018accent\u2019) colours in Windows \u2018Blue\u2019 build 9364 has changed from Windows 8 RTM. I\u2019m not going to bother looking too closely at the updates to the functions in UxTheme.dll this early in the development process, but I did notice two new registry values &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/theme-colours-in-windows-blue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Theme Colours in Windows \u2018Blue\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[34,35,83,160,171,174,176,181],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-windows","tag-colour","tag-colours","tag-metro","tag-uxtheme","tag-windows-2","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-blue","tag-winrt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}