watkch01 Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 can anyone help me with how to get a button to use the trip computer This is what I did. My goal was to make a button to link directly to the TC from the map screen. To do so, I decided to replace the 2D/3D button with the link button. Not having this button meant I needed a new place for it, so I converted the compass (still the original round one) to the 2D/3D control. The script in the navigatemap_800_480 file is as follows: ;compass controlls 2d,3d ;trip computer The compass ring bmps are just a perimeter circle the size of the compass with a transparent center so I didnt have to deal with layering things correctly. The trip comp bmp was posted earlier in the thread. All three button images are zipped in here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8V9M6YFH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watkch01 Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Hey watkch01 - Don't any of your trips retain memory? Read above what I've been doing. It's a bit of a hassle, but does work. Nope, none of them. Every time I start the car, they would all reset. Ill have to try switching between trips when I shut down. I dont have the trip comp on the map screen, only as its own window. Whether that has any impact on how it works or not I dont know Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Hey watkch01 - Don't any of your trips retain memory? Read above what I've been doing. It's a bit of a hassle, but does work. Nope, none of them. Every time I start the car, they would all reset. Ill have to try switching between trips when I shut down. I dont have the trip comp on the map screen, only as its own window. Whether that has any impact on how it works or not I dont know same here,i wonder why? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
N-S-E-W Posted June 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 When I first put this in, it was remembering. Even after I updated the sys.txt it had remembered what was there. I drove with it to work on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I had it in standby during work so the info was still there when I got back in. I shut it off last night when I saw these posts and turned it back on a couple of hours ago. The info is GONE. I searched through every ui from several IGO zips that had trip computer ui's in them and couldn't find any thing pertaining to memory. I'm not a code writer so for all I know it's there and I don't know. I'm sorry to have given everyone bad information. I'm at a loss and pretty frustrated right now. I was so used to the blue boxes on my screen, I think I'll keep them anyways. If anyone who knows code can help us, please let us know. I'm willing to continue fiddling with it since I started this mess. Did anyone own IGO 6 in the past that had a trip computer? If you did, do you remember if it retained the trip information after a re-boot? I need another break. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 11, 2009 Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 When I first put this in, it was remembering. Even after I updated the sys.txt it had remembered what was there. I drove with it to work on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I had it in standby during work so the info was still there when I got back in. I shut it off last night when I saw these posts and turned it back on a couple of hours ago. The info is GONE. I searched through every ui from several IGO zips that had trip computer ui's in them and couldn't find any thing pertaining to memory. I'm not a code writer so for all I know it's there and I don't know. I'm sorry to have given everyone bad information. I'm at a loss and pretty frustrated right now. I was so used to the blue boxes on my screen, I think I'll keep them anyways. If anyone who knows code can help us, please let us know. I'm willing to continue fiddling with it since I started this mess. Did anyone own IGO 6 in the past that had a trip computer? If you did, do you remember if it retained the trip information after a re-boot? I need another break. i'll try and give it a shot after i put out v4, i think that's going to be a ling process cause i'm no coder myself so we'll see, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
N-S-E-W Posted June 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 Just checked the stats on the download of the zip from page one. Between the the original that was posted on May 31st and the revised one that was posted on 6/3 there have been 125 downloads. What are the other users experiencing? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watkch01 Posted June 11, 2009 Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 I was wondering why this thread is only three people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 11, 2009 Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 hey N-S-E-W just wondering if you were able to use the dialog box that says the trip computer is just as accurate as your gps, i think that's a key for the trip computer to not start as soon as you turn the unit on, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
N-S-E-W Posted June 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 hey N-S-E-W just wondering if you were able to use the dialog box that says the trip computer is just as accurate as your gps, i think that's a key for the trip computer to not start as soon as you turn the unit on, I commented it out because it was throwing an error. Once you clicked okay it would go to the trip comp albeit without the message. Let me get the error back and see if it makes a difference. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 11, 2009 Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 hey N-S-E-W just wondering if you were able to use the dialog box that says the trip computer is just as accurate as your gps, i think that's a key for the trip computer to not start as soon as you turn the unit on, I commented it out because it was throwing an error. Once you clicked okay it would go to the trip comp albeit without the message. Let me get the error back and see if it makes a difference. it might be throwing an error message cause of a missing variable, i already tried adding the variable and still the message box don't show up, when i was playing with the igo 8.3 what i noticed was that trip computer won't start til the yes on the message box was clicked Quote Link to post Share on other sites
N-S-E-W Posted June 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 In variable.def.ui I added Threw it in and got the message to show. No error. Now I need to test it to see if it remembers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 In variable.def.ui I added Threw it in and got the message to show. No error. Now I need to test it to see if it remembers. let me know how it goes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 just tried it and the message still doesn't show up Quote Link to post Share on other sites
N-S-E-W Posted June 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 It only came up one time. I rebooted three times since and it didn't come back on. It still doesn't remember, though. I'm going to remove the variable file and put it back in so I can take a snapshot. I think i'm going to change the message. Back in a bit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ill.die.trying Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 It only came up one time. I rebooted three times since and it didn't come back on. It still doesn't remember, though. I'm going to remove the variable file and put it back in so I can take a snapshot. I think i'm going to change the message. Back in a bit. well i guess it's a one time thing, when i used the igo 8.3 it did only ask me once, wonder if there's a way to have the variable set to 0 every reboot so that it would ask everytime, hhhmmm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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