scook
I created a light green Mercury when the theme editor was released and stopped with light themes. Until Cakewalk releases their own new light theme, there are pieces missing from the theme editor which make creating new light themes difficult. The big give up when modifying Mercury is color strips. My guess is the reason many people use Mercury is to maintain the X3 color strip feature. In my case, these are the reasons I am waiting on generating new light themes.

I have to go back and DL your light green mercury theme; I don't want to repeat colors that someone else has done. I am getting the sense you have that many use Mercury primarily for the color strips. Not using them myself, I hadn't considered the appreciation some have for that feature. 

I believe you can change any of the graphical elements of Mercury (buttons, switches, lights, some backgrounds, etc.) and still maintain colored strips, but not with Theme Editor. You'll need Duckbar or a resource editor as they are contained in the TTSRES.dll file. Altering it will not affect the main Sonar.exe file.

soens
I believe you can change any of the graphical elements of Mercury (buttons, switches, lights, some backgrounds, etc.) and still maintain colored strips, but not with Theme Editor. You'll need Duckbar or a resource editor as they are contained in the TTSRES.dll file. Altering it will not affect the main Sonar.exe file.

Hi Soens.
PeterL mentioned Duckbar to me away from this thread when the restructuring Mudgel mentioned was going on. He mentioned that the use of Duckbar is hardly a "straight-shoot" (my words, not his) and involves quite a bit of trial and error when editing. I'm not sure that I'm looking to do this with Duckbar if it means more time essentially being used in exploratory searches and the like. So, for now, I'm kind of limiting my efforts to what can be accomplished in Theme Editor. I might rethink this, however.