| App: | WM2003+ Picture | Settings/ Today applet, reading an image | FunnySnake's TKCreater | ThemeBuilder 2003 | Avanquest (BVRP) Software's pocket Theme Manager 2 | Conduits Pocket Artist 3.0 | Resco Image Viewer 5.32 | MultiIE | ThemeMaker McDeb | MS Theme Generator | Spb Extended Theme Generator | Fujitsu-Siemens Album |
| Price | Comes with a lot of WM2003+ PPC's | free | free | free | $14.90/ e18.90 | $49.95 | $24.95 | $17.95 | $18.00 | free | free | Comes with the Pocket Loox 720 |
| Type | Background setter | Background setter | Theme generator; runs on PPC! | Theme generator | Theme generator, animator | Background setter | Background setter | Background setter | Theme generator | Theme generator | Theme generator | Background setter |
| With theme generators: is it able to read/import .tsk files, in addition to creation? | N/A | N/A | + | - | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | + | N/A | N/A |
| With theme generators: built-in cropping tool (to choose which region to crop)? | N/A | N/A | + | - | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | N/A | N/A |
| Memory non-RAM/RAM | In ROM | In ROM | 364k/~0 | PC-based | PC-based, but installs 812k demos in \My Documents\Themes and 672k in the target medium (the automatic .tsk changer) | 1970k + a 88k HTML help file in \Windows | 2.232M + the 287K RFileShell.dll in \Windows (relocatable; shared with other Resco products) | PIE plug-in; 497k/~0k | Desktop only | Desktop only | Desktop only | In ROM |
| Does it convert (resize/downsample/ stretch) images before writing? If yes, | +; creates two images (stwater_480_640.gif and stwater_640_480.gif) | -; it just copies the input file into \Windows\tdycust.gif; therefore, the images must be large enough to fill in the area! | Crops; convert to .png | - | + | -; just blindly copies the given image to stwater.gif | -; just blindly copies the given image to stwater.gif | -; just blindly copies the given image to stwater.gif | +; you can choose between clipping and resizing | +; QVGA resolution | -; includes them verbatim in the TSK file | +, in both directions, to 480x480 |
| If it has color setting capabilities, WM2003-compliant, color setting-wise? | + | N/A | + | + | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | N/A (it only copies pre-generated image files into the TSK file) | + |
| If it has image conversion capabilities, QVGA landscape support? | + | N/A | - (tiling) | + | - (tiling) | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | N/A | - |
| If it has image conversion capabilities, SE VGA? | + | N/A | - (crops to low-res!) | + | - (resizes to low-res!) | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | N/A | + |
| If it has image conversion capabilities, native VGA? | + | N/A | - (crops to low-res!) | + | - (resizes to low-res!) | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | N/A | - |
| Transparency settable? | + | - | + | + | + | - | - | - | + | + | N/A | - |
| Today/system Colors:Today screen text/separator line | - | Always sets the text color to black | + | + | +/+ | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | + | N/A (set by MS Theme Generator) | N/A |
| Navigation bar left/right/text? (top) | - | N/A | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | N/A | N/A | N/A | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | N/A | N/A |
| Command/status bar? (bottom) | - | N/A | + | + | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | + | N/A | N/A |
| Message left/right/text? | - | N/A | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | N/A | N/A | N/A | +/+/- | +/+/- | N/A | N/A |
| Important message (Critical tool tip; for example, "battery very low") left/right/text? | - | N/A | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | +/+/+ | N/A | N/A | N/A | +/+/- | +/+/- | N/A | N/A |
| Tool tip (for example, speaker /connectivity bubble) left/right? | - | N/A | -/- | +/+ | +/+ | N/A | N/A | N/A | -/- | -/- | N/A | N/A |
| Active/inactive menu bar color? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Menu bar (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ GWE\Menu\BarFnt\) /popup (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ GWE\Menu\PopFnt\) menu text? WM2003SE-compliant? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Inactive dialog box text? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Active dialog box text? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Selected (menu) item text? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Disabled menu item text? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Inactive title text? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Button text? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| System font (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\GDI\ SYSFNT\) settable in one step? Is it VGA/WM2003SE-compliant? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Able to change the WM2003SE-specific HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\ Stylus\FontArray ? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Dialog/window/menu background? | - | N/A | - | - | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | N/A |
| Dialog text? | - | N/A | + | + | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | - | N/A |
| Start Menu text? | - | N/A | + | + | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - (always sets it to white) | - (white problem fixed, though) | N/A |
| FileList Line A/B left/right? | - | N/A | + | + | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | - | N/A |
| Selection dot color? | - | N/A | + | + | - | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | - | - | N/A |
| Start Menu background image – visible? | + | - | + | + | + | - | - | - | + | + | + | + |
| In synchron? | + | N/A | + | + | To a certain degree | N/A | N/A | ? | + | + | + | - |
| Screen estate full usage, SE, portrait/landscape (P/L) | +/+ | +/+ (with the right – large enough - input file) | +/+ | +/+ | +/+ | ? | ? | ? | +/+ | +/+ | +/+ | -/- (image size is 480x480!) |
| Centering (P/L) | Centers a bit so that everything is visible | Start from 0,0 | Start from 0,0 | Start from 0,0 | Start from 0,0 | - | - | ? | Start from 0,0 | Start from 0,0 | Start from 0,0 | +/- |
| Tiling in SE, P/L | -/- | -/- | -/+ | -/- | -/+ | ? | ? | ? | -/- | -/- | -/- | -/+ |
| Special features | - | - | - | - | Animation support | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |