Stephanie

I had seen that, but I believe the sys.txt is over-ridden in the scripts in this case.

There's a fairly comprehensive list of options for the sys.txt file here: http://www.navsoon.org/igo-8-full-sys-txt-t990.html I'm not sure if they are all available to us, or if some might be over-ridden in the various Pioneer customizations. Cheers!

I've been digging through the scripts some more, trying to find some settings that seemed to have been 'missing', and have uncovered some interesting stuff. Anyone who's looked into the data.zip file has seen lots of filenames starting with 746... and there's been a few references to the number 749 as well. I'm pretty certain now that #746 is the F700, #747 is the F900 and F90, and while #749 is the F500. The software on my F700 appears to have all the components necessary for any/all four of these units. For example, my F700 contains the software to run MSN Direct, and contains th

Here's how I did it (be warned - it's involved): Find the file data.zip\ui_pioneer\common\poi_mapclose.bmp and edit that in a graphics editor. It is 32pixels wide and 2368 pixels tall. This is all the built in POI icons. Each icon is 32x32, there are originally a total of 74 icons. Add your icon to the bottom, so you're increasing the height of this file by 32 pixels then pasting / adding your icon graphics there. When done, save the file. There are three copies of this file in data.zip, and to be sure, you have to replace them all with your new version. IIRC they are: data.zip\

It does, but appearantly it does not have a lot of them. Here's a listing of what 3d files are in my F700: Canada.3dl USA_Illinois.d3l USA_Maryland.3dl USA_Massachusetts.3dl USA_Michigan.3dl USA_NewYork.3dl USA_Ohio.3dl USA_Washington.3dl USA_Wisconsin.3dl That's it.

Could it be the fan? These things have a small fan in the back of them to keep the circuitry cool... I can only hear mine if the engine is off and there's no music playing.

I don't know if the maps are compatible, but I can tell you what I know about them (not much I'm afraid). The maps are in a file format *.fbl and are stored in the iGo/Content/Maps subdirectory. As far as I know, nobody has tried replacing the map files yet; until that happens we won't know if they have to be digitally signed or if they are 'locked' in some other way. The F-Series use a 2GB flash drive, of which about 1.6GB is used. The Maps folder is about 820MB in size. If the files are compatible you could delete the existing map files (make a backup first of course) and drop i

You could probably drop them in with the other 3dl files that are already in the unit. Assuming that they're the same format. The navi has its existing 3dl files in: My Flash Drive\APL2\iGo\Content\Building

I think I found the controls for soft buttons to zoom in and out. I have not tested this, but I found these in the place_800_480.ui file: What you can see is the onClick command starts the zoom in/out process and the onRelease command stops the zoom in/out process. The function START_STOP_ZOOM has two binary arguments. The second one is 0 to stop and 1 to start, and the first one is 0 to zoom in and 1 to zoom out. You can take this code and stick it in your navigatemap_800_480.ui file, change the bmps if you want to make your own, or use text instead of graphic buttons.

The navi software itself has a startup script, it is start.ui However, you are asking about the unit as a whole, which is somewhat outside the realm of this thread. Nonetheless, here's what happens on boot (as best as I am able to figure out). The windows CE os performs a reboot, and then it launches a number of programs. There is a copy of the registry that's been uploaded to a thread in this section, which lists 5 or 6 programs that are run. These seem to include device managers and services managers, the GPS drivers, and then the 'mainmenu' program. You are correct in thinking th

I'm completely baffled with this. I've just tried unzipping the zip file on a linux computer and searched it and I can't find any resource forks in it. I don't understand how they are appearing or where they are coming from. I have not unzipped and rezipped the data.zip file in the mac os, (or in windows for that matter) I've only ever explored it in windows and edited it with notepad. And as I said, I can't find the resource forks when I check the file in linux. It's very frustrating. This is the data.zip I'm looking at, the same one I'm using on my F700.

The upoi file is just an ascii flat file, so it's just a matter of converting the data from the kml format to the ascii format. I don't know if there's a limit to how many entries you can have in the upoi file, that'd be the only thing that I can think of that might mess it up. As far as the adding the correct icons, there might be an easier way to do it than the one I've used - it'd be swell if we could just drop a BMP file in and call it a day but I haven't tried that.

I don'tknow how those files are getting into the data.zip... I'm doing all that editing in Windows XP running in Parallels... unless Parallels is creating resource forks for some reason then concealing them (I can't see them). Grrrr.

What is the exact filename you are trying to open? What zip file is it from? Is it one of mine?

Are you opening them in the data.zip file? Use explorer to 'open' (Not extract) the data.zip file, and then inside it, navigate to ui_pioneer\800_480\ui and there you should find a bunch of files that end with .ui which you can open in notepad.

Demo #2 - this time we're going to make some stuff happen "automatically". Now, I know I said earlier that and this is still true. So when I say we're going to make something happen automatically, what I really mean is, we're going to make things happen, that get triggered by other things. Or put it another way: In the first example, we made text appear and disappear when touching a button. That was something happening, based on us tapping/clicking things. The other way to make something happen, is to have it get launched by another script, instead of us. Specifically: We're g

I've been playing around some more, the fourth field is definately for the icon. If this field is blank, the POI gets the category icon. Otherwise what is in here is the icon name, of the specific one that is selected. The only thing I'm stumped with at this stage is how to go about adding custom icons to the thing. I've edited the poi_mapclose.bmp and added a few icons to it, and (I think) I figured out how the .icon files work, so I added some .icon files for my new icons, but they don't appear as choices in the nav unit. Edited to add: Ok I did figure out how the poi icons work.

Same here; using the Apple Composite cable. I got mine at Futureshop.

Ok I am pretty sure I know what is wrong - I added an alpha channel to the compass file so it wouldn't be a'black bar' and although that looked good when staying still, it is the cause of the ghosting while the car is moving. The way it writes the compass updates to the screen, doesn't actually 'move' the image that's there, it just writes a new one in the same spot,and with the alpha channel, that meant the old stuff wasn't being removed, just added to. I've attached a replacement file, this goes in the 800_480 directory and just overwrites the one that I sent earlier. Of course, you ca

I've had a number of questions about some of the scripting in the Navi and thought rather than repeating a lot of stuff in PMs it might be best to discuss it here so everyone can participate. As we've seen already, there's a lot of neat stuff we can do with these units as far as displays, graphics, fonts, colours and so on. Here, I'm going to look at how we can manipulate those visual elements through the scripts. If you have a specific scripted function you would like to accomplish, feel free to ask here. I don't promise to solve everything (some things are beyond our control stil

When I first started messing around I used the 'hide' thing but I quickly discovered that a lot of stuff was unhiding itself - the scripts were overriding the visibility setting. So I just started adding 1000 to whatever the x= position was. That moves it off screen so whether it's 'hidden' or not, you can't see it. It's really nice of you to go editing my files for people - my download includes instructions for that. I never set out to make my theme/skin as something that would work perfectly as a drop-in replacement for everyone, I made it do what I wanted and people asked for copies

The N E S W function is a "Linear Compass". Search the navigatemenu_800_480.ui and the navigatemenu.ui files for LINEAR_COMPASS and you'll find the appropriate lines. I created my own bmp files for the compass and the compass background. The bmp's that were in there didn't work right- they had east and west reversed, but the ones I created work correctly.

Did you just copy the data.zip file, or did you copy all the other files? My data.zip requires those extra font files to work right. If your original data.zip isn't booting either, then its possible you've done something else - did you delete, move, or change any other files?

Hmm I haven't had that problem. I'll play around with it a bit tomorrow and see what happens.

Hi Jascias, some things I can help with quickly - In data.zip\ui_pioneer\800_480\ui\navigatemap_800_480.ui: 1) Delete or comment out the line with the "tag_shadow.bmp" in it 2) Delete or comment out the line with the "daycar3d.bmp" in it 3) Delete or comment out the line with the "nightcar3d.bmp" in it 4) Find the line with the id btnNMB_NAV2D and change the bmp file from my button to 746_32K_OM-011_32b.bmp#2 5) Find the line with the id btnNMB_NAV3D and change the bmp file from my button to 746_32K_OM-012_32b.bmp#2 6) Find the line with the bmp file steph_button1 and change that bmp